Fantastic Four #554–561 by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch A confession: I think I bought this book because it was such a bargain on Amazon. I got it for ~£6.50 – for eight issues, that's a great bargain, and I couldn't resist. I hadn't really read reviews for the individual…
Secret Warriors # 1–6 by Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli (with Brian Michael Bendis on plot) Although I haven't read Hickman's Image works, I've been enjoying his Fantastic Four run (even if it has turned into a pawn-moving exercise in the latest issues) and the first issue of S.H.I.E.L.D. was…
Dark Avengers #1–6 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato I rather liked Warren Ellis' 12-issue run on Thunderbolts, which is effectively what the Dark Avengers are: the Thunderbolts masquerading as the Avengers. Bendis has always admired Ellis as a writer, so working on the same concept was probably a…
The New Avengers #51–54 by Brian Michael Bendis, Billy Tan and Chris Bachalo Time to catch up with more trade paperbacks I purchased over the course of the months in which I wasn't blogging regularly. Today, the latest New Avengers paperback collection. I have been enjoying the odd mix of…
It was only when I was fact-checking for this post (yes, hard to believe, I know, but I do try …) that I discovered that Clare In The Community is now in its sixth year and sixth series – it’s an impressive achievement for a radio sitcom about a social…
[Writing about television programmes really takes it out of me, so you'll have to wait for the final post in the current run, because it will take a bit more time to get it all together. So, here's something completely unrelated.] I was born and bred in London and, with…
I can’t remember the last time there was such a disconnect between the material in the first episode and the time and location at which it was aired – Veronica Mars was shown on E4 last summer (around July 2009) at about 8am every week day, as part of the…
[I interrupt my catching up on television programmes to talk about something that isn't a television programme, but at least it's about someone who has been in television programmes.] Chris Addison has a slightly bigger profile than Lucy Porter, who I saw last month – he plays Ollie in The…
True Blood is one of the most all-round entertaining shows I’ve seen in a while. It has everything – sex, death, humour, horror, the supernatural, a serial killer, prejudice, telepathy, violence, shocking moments and tension. It’s an impressive achievement, especially when you consider it’s about vampires; Alan Ball (the creator…
I’ve been catching up on the comic books and trade paperbacks I bought and the films I saw last year, but I've neglected the television shows I watched and liked last year. Talking about Heroes and FlashForward the other day got me thinking that I should mention programmes that deserve…