The dreariness of a bank holiday Monday in an English summer can have an affect on a person's mood. It certainly permeated through to my recent blogging attitude or, rather, my consumption of material. Don't get me wrong; I still enjoy comic books, films, comedy, books, but sometimes the product…
I was delighted when I heard that not only Hellboy was getting a sequel but also that it would be directed by Guillermo del Toro. Although the first film wasn’t a brilliant film, it was a brilliant adaptation of the comic book to film, with spot-on visuals and a perfect…
Written by Bill Willingham, art by various. One of the magical (if you'll pardon the pun) things about comics is that they can do just about anything: anthropomorphised rabbit samurai in feudal Japan, a barbarian aardvark, a former preacher with the voice of God whose best friend is a vampire,…
Captain America #1‒7 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Michael Lark and John Paul Leon I have read some Captain America comics in my time, as well as comics with Cap as a central character in a team, but I've never really connected with the character. For this reason, I didn't…
By Mike Carey This is book 3 of the Felix Castor series, and Carey is maintaining the quality in this adventure of the London exorcist. The setting and threat level is perfectly balanced; I was slightly worried when I read that Carey was taking the character to the USA because…
To celebrate 10 years of DVD, Empire is doing one of its Features: The 100 DVDs You Must Own. As I've been away from the blogging game for a while, there's nothing like a list to ease oneself back into things. Obviously, this is a list, which means that it's…
Or, what if a Lovecraftian monster from another dimension didn’t want to kill all humans but love all humans? Which, although not as snappy a title, does sum things up for this second straight-to-DVD Futurama movie. Following on from the first adventure, there is a large tear in the universe…
I can't see how this was proposed as an idea: let's do a Batman version of The Animatrix, an anime anthology of separate but linked short stories about and around Batman. It's not a natural choice, is it? There's nothing organic about the process. And, after the excellent Batman: The…
Before seeing The Dark Knight, people should know that the 'Dark' part is very, very important. I'm not talking about the usual hype about the sequels being darker and more mature (e.g. Harry Potter): this is the genuine article, and you should be prepared for that fact when you watch…
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler I read this book via my library after it appeared on the list of recommendations from Amazon – I feel guilty that (a) I’m not spending money to read the book and (b) if I did, I wouldn’t be using a ‘proper’ book shop.…