"What saddens me so much is that we have not only lost a hugely popular and colourful character, but one of the most exciting and explosive young batsmen," he said.
As a sequel or a stand-alone, Russian Tattoo is compelling, colourful and hugely enjoyable.
This very week Terry Gilliam was directing an opera for ENO; Terry Jones has just written a libretto for the Royal Opera; Michael Palin continues to be prolific in print and on television; Eric Idle has given a new twist to the Python story with the colourful and hugely funny stage show Spamalot.
It seems Ayers is preparing us for something seriously dark yet colourful, crazy but hugely entertaining here, so roll on a summer of sin far more exciting than anything Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice looks set to offer us.
Based on the countries' flags, these colourful geometrical constructions were widely displayed, hugely admired internationally, and quite original.
While Cook has always been hugely admired in England, if not adored as were more colourful folk heroes like Botham and Flintoff, Clarke has often barely been tolerated on his home patch.
Mind Candy, the company that came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, began back in 2003 as a back-bedroom project by the colourful entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith.
Artificial intelligences, owned by the wealthy few, are hugely powerful entities, yet they pass almost unheeded over a seething, fractured society of outlaw geneticists, information criminals, colourful street gangs, and orbiting Rastafarians.
His bold, colourful, blobby architecture might not be to everyone's taste; yet, at their best, his buildings are hugely enjoyable, collectively a kind of two-fingers-up to conventional notions of good taste and polite, late-flowering modernism.
