You’ve seen the Marvel films and know how they all live in the same “Universe.” We had the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents throughout and then the Avengers as the wrap. Will DC manage something similar? Will Superman act the starting movie that creates a world the others live in? If so then attention must turn to Guillermo […]
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Games group signs deal with IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing is the fourth largest comic publisher in the States. They’ve an impressive range of comic book titles including Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, True Blood, Locke & Key, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2000 AD’s Judge Dread, Star Trek, Godzilla, G.I. Joe and the Transformers. The deal signed with The Powell Group gives […]
A review of Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective
I enjoyed Poe’s work and Rue Morgue is one of my favourites. Despite having read Poe, despite having read the adventure of Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin and his nameless narrator I somehow missed the history of the short story. In Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe invents the detective. He invents the detective before the word […]
R.I.P.D. gets a longer trailer
Based on the Dark Horse comic come a movie of the same name. R.I.P.D. stars Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon and Mary-Louise Parker. Ryan plays a dead cop who ends up in R.I.P.D. and partnered with the 200 year dead Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges). Together they are a supposed to track down spirits who […]
A review of the Murdoch Mysteries – Let Loose the Dogs
Once again, I have been tasked (albeit a happy one) with a review of another Murdoch Mystery. Once again I have had the opportunity to visit Toronto in the 1890’s and catch up with Detective William Murdoch (who is a thoroughly nice guy), and life is still hard and the weather cold. In this latest […]
Superhero Week: Pandora
The DC Universe is gearing up for the Trinity War, the story beginning in July’s Justice League books from Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire. It’s been brewing ever since Flashpoint and the birth of the New 52. One of the trinity, along with the Phantom Stranger and The Question, is Pandora. She is believed to […]
Superhero Week: The webcomic rundown
We’ve already had a whole bunch of free to download superhero comics and superhero RPG material but what if that’s too much effort? What if you don’t want to download anything this Superhero Week? If that’s the case then this list of free to enjoy webcomics might do the trick! Grrl Power A comic about […]
Superhero Week: The sexiest superheroes
Here are some sexy superhero costumes. Ah wait, there’s a catch. These have been drawn by Anna to show how male superheroes would look if they were designed like female superheroes. Fair do? In the raging debate on Drawing the impossible? Fully dressed Superheroines a common comment was from people who didn’t mind skimpy female […]
Superhero Week: A look at The Fall of Ming
The Fall of Ming is part, the last part, of the Complete Flash Gordon Library. Put together from Alex Raymond’s material and published by Titan this is a fantastic coffee table book and still a wonderful read. It’s a large book. That’s one of the reasons I use the phrase “coffee table” to describe it. […]
Superhero Week: A host of free comics
Superhero Week is a great time to try a new comic book. If that’s not enough of a reason then lets dig up some risk safe recommendations – a bunch of entirely free comics! First up there’s Top Cow who have issues of Cyberforce, Aphrodite, Sunset, Witchblade, Artifacts and Darkness that you can download for […]
