A music video done as a motion comic is a pretty good idea. The track in question is “Hurts Like Heaven” by Coldplay. The video is actually a prequel to the six-part comic series telling the story of Mylo Xyloto. You can pre-order the comic from Coldplay’s fanfire site. The comic is published by Bongo […]
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New Battlestar Galactica series
NBCUniversal have signed a license deal with Dynamite Entertainment to bring the classic Battlestar Galactica crew back to life in a new comic book series. The new Battlestar Galactica will be helmed by the British writing partnership of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. The two have worked together before on projects like Nova and The […]
A review of Dead Space: Catalyst
I liked the blood splatters. That was my first impression of Dead Space: Catalyst. Titan Books had given B. K. Evenson’s Dead Space novel a small but effective treatment and decorated the chapter numbers with a splash of black and white blood. Dead Space has always been about the atmosphere. Okay; Dead Space has been […]
Introducing Superman’s new creative team
Grant Morrison won’t be doing Superman any more. He’s the writer who took the new look Superman, jeans, t-shirts and boots, from the New 52 and made progress from there. Needless to say fans, many of whom liked the approach, were worried when he said issue #16 would be the last. Last week, on their […]
Heroes United trailer
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 […]
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.
