Geek Overture

When it comes to TV shows I’m tend to like things with an element of the “super”. If a new show with a superhero or supernatural angle is announced, I’m always going to get quite excited about the prospect of watching the pilot. However, I can be a pretty harsh critic; if I’m properly disappointed [...]

I’m going got take a leaf out of Dredd’s book and get right to the point, I liked this movie. It’s action-packed, it’s stylized, it’s true to the original source material, it’s direct and it’s thoroughly entertaining. Be warned though, Dredd will certainly not be everyone’s cup of tea; the movie is extremely violent and [...]

As 2012′s greatest celebration of geeking out has just come to a close we thought we’d be remiss in our duties if we failed to write a roundup of our 2012 Comic-Con highlights. This year’s San Diego event had a wonderful glut of teasers, cast panels, announcements and exclusive footage. Aside from the usual stuff [...]

The London Film & Comic Con is hurtling round the corner (running from Friday July 6th to Sunday 8th), where some of the country’s biggest names will be trucking on down to the capital to celebrate the biggest and best of cult movies and comics. I don’t know about you guys, but even a brief [...]

I like to keep an eye out for any interesting comic images shared on twitter and every now and then I come across some comic gold. The thing is I’m quite bad at sharing these finds myself. So today I thought I’d make a change and start sharing more. Here are my favourite comic-tweet-picks-of-the-week (who [...]

So, DC’s beating Marvel in the visible female character stakes? When the hell did this happen? Sure, DC hasn’t exactly been getting accolades all over the place for retconning Batgirl out of the wheelchair and for pretty much all of the first few issues of Voodoo. However: that doesn’t get Marvel a pass for getting [...]

Hello Frank. Can I call you Frank? I hope so. I feel you have spoken to me through the years through your work. I was hoping to reply to your blog post. Is that okay? Thanks Frank. I knew you’d understand. The great thing about a democracy is that everyone has an opinion. From the workers [...]

Today’s pull list involves more Dark Ages fantasy adventures, a new magic-based superhero and the grimdarkest of X-Men. Demon Knights #3 Madame Xanadu starts off the book with a magic shielding spell that comes at a terrible price and Etrigan is pissed that his girlfriend now looks about 80. Oh, and barbarians are still knocking [...]

And we’re back for another batch of mini-reviews. So, what’s good this week? The answer is pretty much: Animal Man. But you probably already knew that. Stormwatch #3 Stormwatch continues to fight the Moon, Apollo and Midnighter finally teams up with Stormwatch proper to help against this week’s threat to earth. Some great fleshing out [...]

Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, it’s your weekly round up of some new releases in the world of comics. Voodoo #2 DC’s alien stripper superheroine is back for issue #2 and it’s… not quite what I was expecting from issue #1. Now the first issue of Voodoo, I definitely had to agree with Rich Johnston on [...]