This blog is officially a Before Watchmen-free zone (see here for my thoughts) but that doesn’t mean I don’t try new comics. However, as the post title states, trying new comics is a gamble, and not one that always pays off. For example, the ‘new’ DC universe of titles. As discussed in…
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1–7 by Peter David, Robin Furth, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove The appeal of this comic book is supposed to be Stephen King – the first adaptation of his work into comics, I believe – but the real attraction is the art of Jae…
By Ben Aaronovitch Peter Grant is a young constable in the Metropolitan Police Service; while standing guard over a crime scene of a murder in Covent Garden in the middle of the night, he talks to a witness to the crime. The only trouble is that the witness is a…
Marvel Universe Vs The Punisher #1–4 by Jonathan Maberry and Goran Parlov I don't understand the current obsession with apocalyptic scenarios in pop culture (and comics in particular). I think it is very strange and and seems a bit macabre and depressing, but then I’m not a fan of the endlessly…
Just about everything you may have heard about The Raid is true: 'Ong-Bak meets Die Hard', as Total Film pegged it (I think it was Empire who called it Die Hard Boiled, which I quite liked), it is one of the most breakneck, action-packed, frenetic, insanely violent and stupidly entertaining…
Conan #0–6 and part of #7 by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord Even though I’m a fan of genre stories, I’ve never read any Conan the Barbarian, which includes the original pulp stories and the respected comics by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith; I’ve only seen the Schwarzenegger films and…
When I started this sporadic blog back in January 2005, comic book bloggers preferred unusual names for their blogs instead of using their actual names (in contrast to today when the advice is to own your domain name so that you can control your brand). I’m not sure why this…
Spandex #1–3 by Martin EdenPublished by Titan Books Before receiving this review copy, I have to confess to knowing very little about this book. I had skimmed some articles about it on Bleeding Cool, but that’s about it. However, since the title featured in the pages of the Metro (a…
The content of this blog should indicate that this film was made for someone like me, who loves films and comics (although I’ve never been a huge Avengers fan), so whatever I have to say will come out biased. However, no matter how much I geeked out watching this film…
Comic book companies boast of the large numbers of characters in their universes when trying to sell themselves as franchise opportunities, usually referring to them as assets. With the increase in the number of films based on comic books, and the huge number of actors available to play roles in…