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 […]
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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 […]
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
This is a review of Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane that’s coming out of Solaris towards the end of this month. The collection has been edited by Solaris’ editor-in-chief, author of Twilight of Kerberos: The Call of Kerberos, Jonathan Oliver. Jonathan Oliver is not to be mistaken with Jon Oliver, the escapologist […]
The Justice League and The Avengers as chambara samurai
The word “Chambara” is used to describe a genre of movies in Japan with the focus on sword fighting. They’re very often samurai peroid pieces set somewhere between 1600 and 1868. Talented deviant artist Alex Mitchell must have wondered what some of America’s most famous superheroes; the Justice League and The Avengers would look like […]
The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder
You know the floating lady trick. You’ve probably seen it on TV and watched how the stage magician gets his assistant to appear to float in thin air; but generally under a light weight cloth. The premise of this investigation is that the Floating Lady trick goes wrong. Harry Kellar invented the trick and in […]
Picture this… Tim Burton’s The Avengers
Imagine if Tim Burton had created The Avengers. What would Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow look like? As it happens, Tim Burton certainly didn’t create and probably has never drawn The Avengers. However, deviant artist Xenia Rassolova, a talented 18 year old from Canada, has and she has adopted […]
Tales from Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? review
“When Gandalf is vanquished, the text is ‘He fell beyond time and memory’. We puzzled about how you put that on film.” – director John Boorman on his proposed adaptation The Beatles wanted to do a Lord of the Rings movie and John Boorman was the director who was going to wrestle with it. In […]
A review of Spartacus: Morituri
Spartacus: Morituri is a novel that is not just set in the world created by Starz but involves Spartacus and the other gladiators. It is set after Spartacus becomes the Champion of Capua and while Crixus is wounded. In summary; Morituri is everything you would expect from the Spartacus franchise; violence, sex, politics and human […]
