I realise you’re not generally big followers of British comics, but I need to flag up a notification I received last week of the sad death of Leo Baxendale.
Leo Baxendale was a very important artist who was intimately involved in the changes that hap
Read more…A continuance of the previous story, prompting the same complaint as that one, i.e., people who were capable of this kind of stuff wouldn't need to do it. Plus this whole business of seeking "consent" is nonsensical, as though the three commanders o
Read more…This starts out like a cross between Doctor Who and the Da Vinci Code. This business of an ancient text that contains some horrific secret has been the making of a thousand crappy novels, and I don't really like it much better, here. To my mind, we'r
Read more…In which our heroes discover the horrors of space capitalism. The show's always tended to use evil capitalists as heels, even going as far back as "Planet of Giants" in the Hartnell Era. This attempts felt a little heavy-handed.
It's also an interest
Read more…Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider #2 - Ben continues to get himself set up in Las Vegas, while Kaine tries to catch up to him. Story by Peter David, art by Mark Bagley.
I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but as I have no particular attachment to any of
Flash had its season premiere last night! Spoilers are to be expected in this thread, but I'll put in a picture of Flash traveling through time to give people a chance to turn back.
OK, everyone up to speed? Good.
I have mixed feelings about this
Read more…Just for fun, what would be the least useful super power you could have? It could be one possessed by several superheroes and villains, or one that's not been used.
To start, I'll suggest pre-cognition. While it seems as if it might be nifty to be
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Instrumental
Dave Chisholm
Z2 Comics, 2017
With Instrumental trumpeter/composer/cartoonist Dave Chisholm presents a black and white morality tale about a struggling young trumpeter and bandleader--with an accompanying soundtrack. There have been pre
Read more…I used to be a huge fan of the comic strip Dilbert. I found it to be funny and inventive. Eventually, however, it seemed to me that it fell into the same pattern that many successful comic strips fall into. That is, Scott Adams developed a stable of
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Spring is when a young person’s fancy turns to TV schedules – and if you’re into geek culture, 2017 promises to be a fancy year indeed.
A few genre shows have been canceled or reached their finales – NBC’s Po
Read more…Almost forgot this year!
Hoy
All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940):
1)I expect that if you've only read one Golden Age adventure of the JSA, this is the one. It's not bad, but this first issue is more like an anthology than a team book, per se.
2)Line-Up: The Atom (Al Pratt), Doct
Read more…Generation X #1 - A new student arrives at the school and meets his wacky classmates. Story by Christina Strain, art by Amilcar Pinna.
Let's get this out of the way--I despise this art. I find it both ugly and amateurish. On the other hand, many of th
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Are you as eager for Alien: Covenant as a face-hugger scuttling from its egg? As hungry for the latest “Alien” movie as a Xenomorph’s second set of jaws? Ready to explode into the theater May 19 like a chest-b
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Arthur (Charles Hunnam) doing what Arthur does best: Pulling a sword from a stone.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
A number of people watching King Arthur: Legend of the Sword when it premieres May 12 will
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Chalk
Paul Cornell
Tor.com, 2017
Paul Cornell has written comics for Vertigo, DC, and Marvel, and for the Doctor Who TV series. That was enough to interest me in an advance copy of this novel. None of his previous work prepared me for this, although
Read more…They sing the early Beatle's tunes anyway. All my loving, Do you want to know a secret and others. I haven't cleaned it yet but I think it's a bit of a novelty.
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