Two weeks' haul this week because I was in a foreign country on 10 September, so quite a handful of books to get through, done in chronological order. Doom Patrol #2 Second issue in and Doom Patrol continues to intrigue. Keith Giffen is doing something a little different with the…
I have been remiss in catching up on my weekly comic book purchases – I'll never get back to being up to date if I don't start doing at least two of this a week (as well as all the films I saw in the cinema). So, let's do this.…
Batman: The Man Who Laughs (Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke) and Detective Comics #784–786 (Ed Brubaker and Patrick Zircher) This is a very strange collection – The Man Who Laughs is a one-off special, and is interesting and well executed, with a good story about the early Joker getting revenge…
By Neil Gaiman There's a quote on the front of the book from Diana Wynne Jones – 'The best book Neil Gaiman has ever written' – and she may have a point. Gaiman has written some great comic books, excellent short stories (as well as not so good ones) and…
In the realms of ‘they don’t make them like they used to’, this independent sci-fi film seems to prove that by looking exactly like something out of the 1970s – to me, its production design looks like an updated version of Space: 1999 (although they were channelling more high brow…
I've really enjoyed the Joe Pitt cycle of books by Charlie Huston (see these four previous reviews), so I was really looking forward to the final book, My Dead Body (even if the title doesn't suggest a happy outcome). I was not disappointed. It was fantastic and a perfect ending…
I don't listen to a lot of comic book podcasts that come out on a regular schedule (and definitely not video podcasts; comic book fans are not the most photogenic of people, and I don't want to watch overweight men in extra large superhero t-shirts, sorry), although I have sampled…
Ultimate Origins #1–5 by Brian Michael Bendis and Jackson Guice The basis of this story is at the heart of a big problem in comic books: EVERYTHING has to be connected. Despite having the scope of the Ultimate universe to do anything, there is still the urge to have the…
I like the films of John Woo; even though his last Hollywood films were woeful (Windtalkers, Paycheck, Mission: Impossible II), there is still the deranged madness of Hard Target, Broken Arrow and the marvellous Face/Off. But it was the Hong Kong ‘heroic bloodshed’ action films that, while dated, I still…
This may be an easy play on words that has probably been said before, but: I wish FlashForward would flash forward. I want to know what happens but I’m not enjoying the process of finding out via the weekly television show. FlashForward was hyped like crazy before it came onto…