Sky Views

Dear Rupert,

I was watching a Malcolm in the Middle repeat hour on Sky One a couple of weeks ago and instead of the second episode my TV cut over to Sky News. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I immediately blamed my cable provider Chorus. This is because Chorus’s service is abysmal, as opposed to your service, which while never-ending repetitive drivel is reasonably competent.

Anyway, instead of watching Malcolm outsmart his teacher, and Hal forget Lois’s birthday again, I got Grainne Seoige reading the “News.” Now I do like Grainne Seoige, and I don’t get to see her a lot since you took her off TV3 and relegated her to channel 15, but I don’t think this was your motive. Nope. No one was watching Sky News Ireland because it is shit, and so you are force feeding it to us when we want to watch re-runs of shows we’ve seen 15 times before. Fact is I can’t watch Sky News anyway because my baby-monitor interferes with the signal. No loss as far as I am concerned.

If only my TV had picture in picture I could turn off the baby monitor, watch Sky News and Sky News simultaneously and pretend that Grainne has a twin sister. It could be a difficult one to explain when my wife comes in to watch Home and Away. You couldn’t arrange for Sky News to replace this instead?

Please stop this crap. Please. And by please stop, I mean: please stop making News up, please stop showing this shit on Sky 1 and leave on the channel that nobody watches, please show repeats of the Simpsons after series 3, please pick up Firefly, please pick up Futurama again, please pretend to care.

Oh and Rupert? I am not a crank.

Regards,
Conor

Moebius Chair

Following on from the successful building of a Cloudbuster I have turned my attentions to building a Moebius Chair. This may prove to be a more difficult task.

Last time Michael was about (he is now gadding about in Rio waiting for some low-key Carnival festival to start) and helped build the vision. This time could be a harder sell, and some of the materials may be hard to come by.

What do I know about the Moebius Chair? Not a lot. I did find out the following:

Metron travels the universe via his flying Mobius Chair, an invention he created that allows him travel through time, space and other dimensions. Metron created the chair thanks to the X-Element, a rare substance he obtained from Darkseid in exchange for a matter threshold device which Darkseid used to devastate New Genesis in their ongoing war. Darkseid’s war atrocities caused a change in the formerly neutral Metron, who now dedicated himself to defeating the dictator of Apokolips.

A picture of Metron in action:



Now if Michael were about I would be trying to persuade him to drive me out to a scrapyard to get the couple of tons of steel that we’d need to build this machine and then a trip to Maplins and Peats to pick up some motherboards and capacitors. Suppose we’d need a soldering iron as well.

As to how the device actually works, that knowledge appears to lie within the brain of Metron himself, who may not be willing to share his discovery. However, I reckon Metron has given the game away by calling himself, well, Metron.

A Metron is:

The Metron is a unit of surface area used in Heim Theory and is analogous to the branes of string theory. It is approximately equal to the Planck length squared (h*h), or 10-70 m². In common language, one could best describe this area as "vastly smaller than anything we ever deal with."

Heim Theory is kind of a unified theory of everything to resolve incompatibilities between quantum theory and general relativity

So it also appears I'll need the help of a theorectical physicist. Perhaps Stephen Hawking is at a loose end? I hear he can be difficult to work with. Maybe I'll put up some posters in the physics block of MIT. Those crasy kids are always up for this kind of stuff.

Next on the list is some X-Element. I’ve had a quick scan of my periodic table and don’t see it. Looks like that I’ll have to get some from Darkseid. I know that he has already got a Matter Threshold Device, so there is no point trying to bargain with one of those. Perhaps there is a newer version with a camera and a radio that I can lay my hands on. Seeing as how Darkseid destroyed an entire world last time someone dealt with him I may have to tread carefully, or at least put my morals on hold.

So to make a list of things I need to do (Thanks David Allen!):

• Get a few tons of steel
• Get circuit, board & capacitors
• Get soldering iron and welding torch (and goggles)
• Order O’Reilly books: Programming Moebuis Chairs; Advanced Moebius Chair Hacks; Moebuis Chairs in a nutshell, second edition
• Get Stephen Hawking and/or MIT theoretical physics department on Board
• Negociate with Darkseid for X-Element
• Build and travel through dimensions in a skintight blue suit

I'll keep you informed of how I get on.

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BMX XXX

I was in gamestop the other day checking out the sales and I came across this title. Hmm. BMX XXX eh? This looks a little odd.

So, I didn’t buy it. Is this because I am thirty? Probably. Not the three-Oh is going to stop me buying "We love Katamari" when it gets released in February.

BMX XXX merges the twin pleasures of a BMX simulator will badly rendered naked women. I googled the title and found out many things about this and other similar titles:

• Sony censored the PS2 version of the game, thus naked women only appear on the Xbox and Gamecube. SCEA stated it posed a detrimental threat to Sony's console brand, adding that the edits were not crucial to the game's gameplay experience. SCEA missed the point a little methinks.

• The greatest boob physics are to be found in DOA2 for the dreamcast. DOA4 for the Xbox 360 doesn't compare at all, apparently.

• DOA X-treme Beach Volleyball took the girls from DOA2 and put them in a volleyball game. I found this review on the internet: "Do you find curvaceous, 3D, anime-style girls sexy? If yes, rejoice! For Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is the medicine for your sickness. Join a group of large breasted beauties as they bump and spike their way around the beaches of Zack Island. DOA spares no jiggling polygon expense as you spend 14 days immersed in sun-drenched, computer-generated voyeurism. And you've got a zoom button for your camera. Need I say more? Be sure to buy a large assortment of bathing suits for your lovely ladies to model to maximize your perverted cartoon lusts. If only I could get the topless cheat code to work I'd never put it down. A must have for sexually repressed males and 12-year-old boys everywhere."•

• BMX XXX is in bargain bins across the land and should not cost you more the €12

• I cannot justify buying this, even for research purposes.

• This reviewer from a Spanish website has a serious problem:
Pontos Fortes: lots of good features, LOTS OF GOOD MISSIONS
Pontos Fracos: you shouldn't have a certain amount of health.
Resumo: i love this game because you get to see a lot of porn for your hard and dedicated work. the reward of porn is like no other. I LOVE PORN... i would get this game because you never get tired of playing it because you are working for porn.

• The first ever Sex in Games Conference has just been announced

• Anyone else remember Leisure Suit Larry? He’s on the PS2 now. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude unsurprisingly costs the same as BMX XXX

• I started writing this as a funny "Ha Ha Ha" article, but now it looks more then a little sad.

• The character generation screen in BMX XXX looks like this:

Mixing it up with a superstar

Here is a pic of Alan and Myself mixing it up with Red Hurley, a true professional.

Enjoy.

Conor needs

Deirdre over at the live journal community has an internet meme where you type "(yourname) needs" into Google and see what you get... (I presume that this was an intentional ellipse in Deirdre's post given the nature of google results).

Anyways, I went ahead and did this, with interesting results. No analysis needed, except that I am reading "Breaking open the Head" by Daniel Pinchbeck at the moment, and this sort of exercise led to a bout of introspection that I wasn't really expecting.

Conor needs your help!
Conor needs a math mentor
Conor needs to find a purpose in protecting others again
Conor needs constant supervision
Conor needs to straighten his life out
Conor needs to ensure the opposite half is long enough to compensate
Conor needs to be a bit careful when to 'stick in'
Conor needs to grow up
Conor needs to step aside
Conor needs someone to tell him "no" when he goes off the deep end with the self-centered angst
Conor needs to make a deal with Miss Wilkes and a suspicious mom
Conor needs to grow up and quit acting like such a baby
Conor needs some umph to balance that heart-on-the-sleeve, whiny emo guy thing
Conor needs to play back in the Bundesliga
Conor needs a sig and Avatar
Conor needs to know that he is supported, and as a community we need to pull together
Conor needs to take his "meds"
Conor needs someone to stick it up him occasionally
Conor needs to sound different
Conor needs to be exploited?
Conor needs love, hope, and a purpose
Conor needs an exorcism
Conor needs a woman.
Conor needs a haircut
Conor needs the money to stay in one piece.
Conor needs braces
Conor needs to buy you a car
Conor needs a life
Conor needs is a good swift kick in the pants–on a daily basis
Conor needs to invite me around when you come back
Conor needs a larger fan base
Conor needs it most
Conor needs to spend a while being intimidated by Arab Strap fans again, or to go off and do another few Desaparecidos...
Conor needs a hug and a pie
Conor needs to protect people
Conor needs the men because Milltown Malbay are supposed to be attacking all the forts in County Clare
Conor needs to stop his self-absorbed whining and get a fucking guitar strap
Conor needs a sandwich
Conor's needs come first until he is old enough to know that other people have needs and also old enough that he has wants over needs
Conor needs would be very arrogant if this were my own idea, but it's not

Job Search

Dear Minister Martin,

I am writing to you looking for employment.

I am a thirty year old male, six foot tall and healthy. My history is as follows:

I was a child prodigy at three years of age and effortlessly reproduced and improved on the entire works of Beethoven by the age of five. By six, I had my primary degree in Theoretical Physics and German, and was writing a revolutionary thesis on the Big Bang theory. By the age of eight, I had opened a successful chain of restaurants in London and Paris. At ten, bored with what life had to offer, I entered a Buddhist monastery. I left after achieving Nirvana, whereupon I moved to South Africa to advise the government on post-apartheid policy. The fact that they did not implement my recommendations is a source of constant sorrow. Aged twelve, I invented the Internet.

Entering my teenage years I correctly predicted the impending Yugoslav wars and fruitlessly lobbied the UN and NATO extensively for pre-emptive action. By fifteen I had engineered a fully working Hydrogen Car, while simultaneously working out a non-pollutive method of hydrogen production. This led on to my pioneering work in zero point energy, and a number of highly classified projects for the US government. To complete this project I formulated a proof of the quantum uncertainty principle; now named the quantum certainty principle. At nineteen, the last year of my teens, I was nominated for the Nobel prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Peace, winning them all.

At twenty I was commissioned by the Swedish Government for a public sculpture in Sergels Torg square in Stockholm. My final piece "The assassination of Olof Palme" is openly regarded as a masterpiece. By twenty-three I had actively contributed to the fall of three African dictators. At twenty-five I proved that Shakespeare wrote all his own plays and poetry, except for sonnet 130 which was written by Kit Marlowe. During my twenty-seventh year I adapted my autobiography for the big screen. At twenty-eight I delivered my report to the French and English government about who really killed Princess Diana.

From this time to date, I have being working for the Dubai government advising on their tourism policy.

I hear that the post of Chief Science Advisor has recently opened up, and as you can see I am more than qualified. Unfortunately it appears the job which I really wanted in the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has already been filled.

I am not a crank,

Yours truly,

Dr.Conor Murnane

So here is how I ordered my 225 comic books

So here is how I ordered my 225 comic books. A mixture of Publisher/Genre/Author where I felt it appropriate.

Group 1: Wildstorm Universe / Warren Ellis

Stormwatch Force of Nature
Stormwatch Lightning Strikes
Stormwatch Change or Die
Stormwatch A Finer World
Stormwatch Final Orbit
The Authority Relentless
The Authority Under New Management
The Authority Earth Inferno and Other Stories

(Mark Millar took the authority over here and outed the Midnighter and Apollo. I like Mark Millar’s stuff, so there.)



The Authority Transfer of Power
The Authority Harsh Realities
The Authority Fractured Worlds
The Authority Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority
Planetary All Over The World and Other Stories
Planetary The Fourth Man
Planetary Leaving The 20Th Century
Planetary/JLA Terra Occulta
Planetary/Batman Night on Earth
Planetary/Authority Ruling The World
Stormwatch: Team Achilles Stormwatch: Team Achilles
Stormwatch: Team Achilles Stormwatch: Team Achilles 2

(At this point you may notice that I am missing some Authority, have no Gen13, Wildcats or Monarchy. Will probably catch up on the Authority but have no plans for the rest)

Transmetropolitan Back On The Street
Transmetropolitan Lust for Life
Transmetropolitan Year of the Bastard
Transmetropolitan The New Scum
Transmetropolitan Lonely City
Transmetropolitan Gouge Away
Transmetropolitan Dirge
Transmetropolitan Spider’s Thrash
Transmetropolitan One More Time
Transmetropolitan The Cure
Transmetropolitan Tales of Human Waste

(Transmet - I bought all 10 to satisfy the completist in me. I am not sure it was worth it though. This is definitely going to be made into a movie at some point)

Global Frequency Planet Ablaze
Global Frequency Destination Radio

(I like GF. Commission by the BBC for a TV program allegedly, episodic nature should suit)

Lazarus Churchyard The Final Cut

(Early Warren Ellis, cracking D'israeli artwork)

Group 2: Crime / Spooks

Sleeper Out In The Cold
Sleeper All False Moves
Sleeper A Crooked Line

(Sleeper is great stuff - Set in the wildstorm universe all about superhuman double agents)

The losers Ante Up
The losers Double Down

(So is the loser - no super powers here)

100 bullets First Shot, Last Call
100 bullets Split Second Chance
100 bullets Hang Up On The Hang Low
100 bullets A Foregone Tomorrow
100 bullets The Counterfifth Detective
100 bullets Six Feet Under The Gun
100 bullets Samurai




(100 bullets is made for the movies. Wins lots of awards, but is anyone reading it?)

Group 3: Sandman / Gaiman / Hellblazer

Gaiman Standalone Violent Cases
Gaiman Standalone Stardust
Gaiman Standalone 1602

(1602 - Finally Marvel makes an entrance onto the list! This is an a Marvel alternative world tale, good too)

Sandman Preludes and Nocturnes
Sandman The Dolls House
Sandman Dream Country
Sandman Season Of Mists
Sandman A Game Of You
Sandman Fables And Reflections
Sandman Brief Lives
Sandman Worlds' End
Sandman The Kindly Ones
Sandman The Wake
Sandman The Dream Hunters
Sandman Endless Nights
Sandman Death: The High Cost Of Living
Sandman Death: The Time Of Your Life




(What can you say that hasn't been said about the Sandman? Nothing, that's what)

Gaiman Standalone The Books Of Magic
Gaiman Standalone Black Orchid

(Black Orchid is essentially a Swamp Thing tale. I don't own any Swamp Thing, a glaring omission from this list. Imagine there are 8 or so Thing books here which would lead nicely onto Hellblazer)

Hellblazer Original Sins
Hellblazer Dangerous Habits
Hellblazer Fear And Loathing
Hellblazer Tainted Love
Hellblazer Rake At The Gates Of Hell
Hellblazer Son Of Man
Hellblazer Good Intentions
Hellblazer Haunted
Hellblazer Hard Time
Hellblazer Freezes Over
Hellblazer All His Engines




(By fuck the Constantine movie sucked. Why couldn't they call it Hellblazer, set it in Liverpool, have a blond (anti)hero in a trenchcoat etc. etc. etc.)

Group 4: Bone and Marvel

I don't own much Marvel comics, and Bone is independently published so I put them in together

Bone Out From Boneville
Bone The Great Cow Race
Bone Eyes Of The Storm
Bone The Dragonslayer
Bone Rock Jaw: Master Of The Eastern Border
Bone Old Man’s Cave
Bone Ghost Circles
Bone Treasure Hunters
Bone Crown of Horns




(Bone is good clean fun comics. Stupid Stupid Rat creatures)

Daredevil The Man Without Fear
Daredevil Born Again
Daredevil Visionaries Vol 1
Daredevil Visionaries Vol 2
Daredevil Visionaries Vol 3
Daredevil Visionaries (Kevin Smith)
Daredevil Daredevil Elektra: Love & War

(What can I say? I like Daredevil. I quite liked the movie too, but boy! Elektra sucked. Kind of like the Daredevil/Elektra Love and War book. Incomprehensible shit. Did Frank Miller write Robocop 2 at the same time?)

The Ultimates Super Human
The Ultimates Homeland Security

(I really like the Ultimates. Iron man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor et al take on the bad guys. Good Stuff)

Spiderman The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man

(Shit. Miller churned out some bollocks at Marvel, apart from some class Daredevil)

Wolverine Weapon X

(X-men 2 was based on a large part of this)

Starwars Heir To The Empire
Starwars Mara Jade: The Emperors Hand
Starwars The Last Command
Starwars Dark Empire
Starwars Dark Empire Ii

(Kinda pointless. Some lovely Cam Kennedy art however)

Group 5: Frank Miller and Alan Moore with some Hellboy. Balanced by a load of crap.

Two heavy weights of comics standing side by side. Some other relevant stuff thrown in too.

Miller Standalone Hard Boiled
Sin City Sin City
Sin City A Dame To Kill For
Sin City The Big Fat Kill
Sin City That Yellow Bastard
Sin City Booze Broads And Bullets
Sin City Family Values
Sin City Hell And Back




(Hell and Back is the weakest, but it’s all good. Hard Boiled is Millers take on Blade runner, notable for Geoff Durrows gorgeous art. Geoff did the concept art for the Matrix fact fans)

Miller Standalone Ronin

Martha Washington Give Me Liberty

(This is the only comic that I have published by penguin. Never bought the sequel)

Hellboy Seed Of Destruction
Hellboy Wake The Devil
Hellboy The Chained Coffin And Others
Hellboy The Right Hand Of Doom




(Ah Hellboy. Two movies? who'd have though it)

Marshall law Blood Sweat And Fears
Marshall law Fear And Loathing

(Agonised about putting Marshall law beside the 2000ad stuff. Still might)

Green Arrow Quiver
Green Arrow Sounds Of Violence

(Revisionist stuff from Kevin Smith. First one is great)

Hitman Hitman
Hitman 10,000 Bullets
Hitman Ace Of Killers
Hitman Who Dares Wins
Hitman Local Heroes

(Garth Ennis is just funny. When Hitman meets the Green Lantern is a highlight)

Pilgrim Just A Pilgrim

(Garth Ennis is funny, unless he is writing Pilgrim. They made a second one of these? Why?)

The Maxx The Maxx
The Maxx The Maxx Vol 2

(Bleah.)

The Invisibles Say You Want A Revolution
Grant Morrison Standalone The Filth

(Grant Morrison, why is everything you wrote post Zenith and Arkham Asylum complete shit? Huh? Completely pointlessly disgusting. Avoid)

Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe Standalone The Little Sister
Cerebus the Aardvark Minds
Manara Standalone The Art Of Spanking
Gemmell Standalone Wolf In Shadow

(Hmm. Dodgy)

Moore Standalone Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman

Moore Standalone From Hell
Moore Standalone Watchman
Moore Standalone V For Vendetta




(Putting From Hell, Watchmen and V for Vendetta back to back is quite mind-blowing. All superb.)

Supreme The Story Of The Year
Supreme The Return

(A superman parody. OK)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen V1
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen V2

(Another great series murdered in the movies)

Tom Strong Tom Strong Book 1
Promethea Promethea Book 1
Promethea Promethea Book 2
Promethea Promethea Book 3
Promethea Promethea Book 4

(Promethea, I will continuing buying because Sinéad enjoys it. I couldn't get past book 2)

Top Ten Top Ten Book 1
Top Ten Top Ten Book 2

(Top Ten is about a police precinct in a world where everyone is a superhero. Very high concept and very good)

Gregory Gregory
Gregory Gregory Ii: Hermin Vermin’s Very Own Best Selling & Critically Acclaimed Book With Gregory In It
Gregory Gregory Iii
Gregory Gregory Iv: Fat Boy

(It's Singapore 59 all over again)

Standalone Vamps

(Bollocks)

TMCM Too Much Coffee Man's Guide For The Perplexed

(Great)

Hempel Standalone My Faith In Frankie

(Em. I bought this on a whim. I am not a 14 year old girl, honest)


Group 7: Superman & The Bat

Superman Red Son

(My only Superman book, and it's an elseworld. Good though. Superman obviously appears all over the place in various different comics in my collection. I always feel I should buy more man of steel stuff, but have never quite managed it.)

Batman Nine Lives
Batman Gotham By Gaslight
Batman Master Of The Future
Batman Crimson Mist

(All elseworld i.e. non-canon where they take the character out of there world and put them in a different situation. Always meant to buy the follow ups to crimson mist, probably will)

Batman The Killing Joke
Batman The Dark Knight Returns

(Back to the seminal works of Moore and Miller. Obviously listed in the Batman group rather then with the Moore and Miller titles)

Batman The Dark Knight Strikes Back 1
Batman The Dark Knight Strikes Back 2
Batman The Dark Knight Strikes Back 3

(Lazy, Lazy, Lazy)

Batman Year 1
Batman Year 2
Batman Challenge Of The Man-Bat
Batman The Cult
Batman Contagion
Batman Cataclysm
Batman No Mans Land 1
Batman No Mans Land 2
Batman No Mans Land 3
Batman No Mans Land 4
Batman No Mans Land 5

(Contagion, Cataclysm and No Mans Land are real unchallenging comic book stuff. Entertaining in their own way)

Batman Devils Advocate
Batman Anarky
Batman The Long Halloween
Batman Haunted House
Batman Dark Victory

(Loeb and Sale. I like this stuff)

Batman The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told
Batman A Death In The Family

(Edgy. Reader vote for the Joker to bludgeon Robin to death with a crowbar, which he does. Goodbye for ever robin2 Jason Todd)

Batman Knightfall: Broken Bat
Batman Knightfall: Who Rules The Night?
Batman Knightsend
Batman Arkham Asylum

(Grant Morrison’s masterpiece. Pity everything else he writes is utter garbage)

Batman Black And White V1
Batman Black And White V2
Batman Night Cries
Batman Absolution
Batman Masterpiece Edition

(This is a big box. Contains a nice replica of Batman no.1. If I had a real one, I'd keep it)

Batman/Judge Dredd Judgment On Gotham
Batman/Judge Dredd Die Laughing

(We love Simon Bisley and Glenn Fabry. Alan Grant and John Wagner on good form here too)




Group 8: 2000ad and Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd Judge Dredd 1
Judge Dredd Judge Dredd 2
Judge Dredd Judge Death
Judge Dredd Cursed Earth 1
Judge Dredd Cursed Earth 2
Judge Dredd Caligula 1
Judge Dredd Caligula 1
Judge Dredd Judge Child 1
Judge Dredd Judge Child 2
Judge Dredd Judge Child 3
Judge Dredd Block Mania
Judge Dredd Apocalypse War 1
Judge Dredd Apocalypse War 2

(The Apocalypse war is the best Judge Dredd story ever. Period. I can bore you at length about this if you want, but mostly I feel that this is very the character is properly defined: "Half my city is burned to ash and you're begging me for mercy? Request denied" As Dredd Nukes a city of 400 million people)

Judge Dredd Judge Dredd 7
Judge Dredd City Of The Damned
Judge Dredd Judge Dredd 12
Judge Dredd Slaine: The Horned God
Judge Dredd The Emerald Isle
Judge Dredd Doomsday For Megacity One
Judge Dredd Doomsday For Dredd
2000ad Nemesis 1
2000ad Nemesis 2
2000ad Nemesis 3

(These Nemesis titles aren't mine. I am going to post them to their rightful owner)

2000ad The Complete Dr & Quinch
2000ad Devlin Waugh: Swimming In Blood

Standalone (various) Outrageous Tales From The Old Testament
Freak Brothers Freak Brothers Book 1
Freak Brothers Freak Brothers Book 1
Crumb Your Vigour For Life Appalls Me
Crumb The Life And Times Of R Crumb
Crumb The R Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

(You'd want to be a fairly sick fuck to leave this on your coffee table)

Various other Calvin and Hobbs, Bloom county and large format books

That's it!

Bringing Order

After moving house, my comic book (or graphic novel or trade paperback, whatever) collection has become unordered. Sinéad is away for a couple of days next week and I am planning on sorting it out.

The question of ordering CDs/DVDs/Books comes up quite frequently and tends to be a male phenomenon, at least men seem to take this stuff more seriously. So I throw the question open to you the blogs modest readership: How do you order your stuff?

My preference is by genre, then chronologically by author. I have seen music collections organised this way (my own was alphabetical, but now has progressed to random) and have been impressed. In fact this was mostly the way my comic book collection was ordered, but I keep running into difficulty ordering the ordered genres.

I have heard a case for ordering DVDs by studio, this translates to comic books publisher (e.g DC v Marvel) and I like the idea, but should my order run publisher -> genre -> author -> chronological or genre -> publisher -> author -> chronological?

Suggestions welcome.