Come watch UFC 240

Coming up on the blog: 2 launches, a night out and UFC 240, the latter of which I'll be watching in Genting Casino. It's the bast place to watch the fights. Hit me up if you're going. Max Holloway defends his featherweight strap against Frankie Edgar, and Cris Cyborg- after losing her featherweight belt to bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes last December- faces Felicia Spencer.

I've just read Aliens vs Predator: Fire and Stone, a graphic novel I picked up at Oldham Comic Con a while back. There are 4 species battling for supremacy here- humans, aliens, predators and some other humanoid, one of which is called Elden, who speaks English and tries to reason with the aliens and predators. It doesn't really work- neither for him as a character, nor for the plot. When one of his legs gets cut off, he can still kick with the other, like that weirdly optimistic knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail. I don't think the authors intended it to be that way. Another implausibility- why doesn't the aliens' acid blood melt the spacecraft's hull? That has always been an issue.

Hmm. Not as good as the earlier graphic novels, although the illustrative detail has come on a long way.