Dr Mark Kermode is film critic for the BBC, and is known to have honest and sttaightforward opinions on many films. What follows is hsi review of the above film.
I just got an Android phone (an HTC Inspire 4G from AT&T). There's a Comixology app plus lots of free comics to download, so I had to try it out. I came into it with serious doubts about reading comics on a 4.3 inch screen, but it actually works surp
During the 60s and 70s, Amazing Spider-Man featured the Wall-Crawler meeting a lot of super-heroes from the early days of the Fantastic Four and especially the Human Torch, the Hulk and Daredevil to Romita era Iceman, Quicksilver, Ka-Zar, Medusa and
If June Robbins (Challengers of the Unknown) had to take on the Countess (S.H.I.E.L.D.), who would win? Not necessarily in a fight, but in some type of competition.
Just thinking about this. Who would be a good character for the Spectre to team up with? Would it be someone really powerful, or perhaps someone with no powers whatsoever but a lot of grit and determination?
Is anyone else watching this show? Remember the "War of the Worlds" TV series in the 80s? This show reminds me of that one, but, where the 80s series was a follow-up to the 1953 movie, this one looks more like a follow-up to the Tom Cruise "War of th
So , here's a line for discussion of Disney-based comics - Especially the " ducks and mice " , Mickey/Donald/Uncle $. , etc. , although if there's anything to say about a Hanna Montana or Pirates of the Carribean(Sic??) or Haunted amnasion comic , go
I've been reading a book called "Fuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters", by Edward and John Harrison. It's all about how just about everything in Japan has its own costumed mascot. Oh, not just sports teams or businesses - but towns and prefectur
My comics shop got shorted this month on its Life With Archie order, so I got it only last week. I'm still enjoying it, although the "Archie Marries Betty" half is at the moment less interesting than the "Archie Marries Veronica" part.
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The recent mention of TCJ in another line gives me excuse to mention it .
TCJ started as a free adzine named THE NOSTALGIA JOURNAL , which IIRC I had a ( Unsolicited ? ) subscription to in 1977 when Gary Groth bought it and turned it into THE COMIC