This is a spinner rack. When newsagents sold comic books, they displayed them on racks such as these. Apart from Phantom comics, Australian newsagents no longer stock comic books. Given that their use no longer exists, items such as this have disappeared. A local newsagency was willing to part with their disused spinner rack, which …

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This epic instalment of How It Should Have Ended is a most enjoyable romp through the mind-boggling plot contrivances and inconsistencies of recent block-buster Avengers Endgame. It’s one thing to adopt your own idiosyncratic version of time travel. It’s another thing altogether not to particularly bother to apply that version with any pretence of internal …

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This ad for an Audi electric car features Captain Marvel being caught up on earth developments that have taken place during her time away faring through space. It’s amusing. It features (minor spoiler) more Captain Marvel dialogue and screen time than Endgame itself. It may also explain why our opposition leader in Australia thinks it …

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