happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher
jellicle cats come one come all I love TS Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Weber but the 'Cats' trailer scares me Jason Weisberger
Business Jigsaw: "wildly ambitious" Google spin-out aimed at tackling "surveillance, extremist indoctrination, censorship" Cory Doctorow
Reviews Krampus trashes the horror potential of traditional mythology in a film that's neither funny nor scary Al Ridenour
brain teasers Saturday morning mind-benders: "Newcomb's Problem" and "Parfit's Hitchhiker" dilemma Mark Frauenfelder