This is a quirky combination but it’ll probably work: Hulk and Iron Man. The two team up in Marvel’s Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United. It’s an original animated movie from Marvel due out in April 2013. Hulk and Iron Man go head to head against Zzzax, Abomination, Wendigos and others after HYDRA scientists meddle […]
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Amazon to rebate some US customers
A coalition of American Attorneys Generals has made significant progress in an antitrust lawsuit brought against publishers and retailers. The claim was that the price of ebooks had been rigged unfairly. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster have come to a settlement with the coalition. Amazon Kindle customers, in the States, received an email with […]
Resident Evil: Retribution, a review of the book
Loyal fans of the Resident Evil series and zombie maniacs will have gone to see Resident Evil: Retribution by now. I’ve seen the film. It was what I expected; zombies, explosions, zombies, fights, zombies and the body beautiful. There is an official movie novelization of the film too and this is a review of it. […]
Mass Effect 3’s Blasto gets own Dark Horse comic
In Mass Effect 3 there’s a film featuring a character called Blasto. He’s a Hanar Spectre. Hanar are those weird purple shapes that stand tall on their many tentacles. The in-game, fictional, Hanar is a rogue who breaks all the rules as he chases justice. Quotes include, “a lover in every port and a gun […]
Spartacus: Swords and Ashes review
Swords and Ashes is set in the Spartacus world when our hero gladiator is the new Champion of Capua. The book is one of the double-dealing and greedy world of prestige and politics. Action begins, as is typical to Spartacus, with casual sex, in public, which then becomes violence, death, slave revolt and murder. The […]
The scary new Joker
The Joker returns to the Batman series today. His return issue is Batman #13 – Death of the Family. Be prepared for a striking visual update. Via Buzzfeed.
Stan Lee Media sues Disney for $5.5 Billion
Let’s write out all the zeroes Stan Lee Media are hoping to take off Disney. It’s $5,500,000,000. Hmm. Tasty. The grounds of the case are pretty straight forward (unless you start to get too legal). Stan Lee Media claim ownership over all the characters that Stan Lee ever invented. This means they want cash from […]
The Humble eBook Bundle
Pay what you want to take home the Humble eBook Bundle and if you pay more than average then you’ll also get to download Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Signal to Noise as well as John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. For just a single dollar (money gets split between the authors and charity) you could […]
A review of Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Dracula Cha Cha Cha follows on from The Bloody Red Baron in the Anno Dracula blood line. I quite liked The Bloody Red Baron, I felt it took a while to get off the ground but once it got in gear it was flying. You should never judge a book by its cover – or […]
Interview with Mike Garley and James Moran of VS Comics
VS Comics is a new venture by Mike Garley and James Moran. It’s a creator owned comic, published digitally every month, that will feature four stories from four different creative teams. There’s Facebook page in place which has steadily been adding Likes. Mike and James have kindly agreed to step up and take part in […]
