Comic Book Review: Batman ’89 #2
The first issue of Batman ’89 was hugely anticipated – for comic book and movie fans of a certain age, Tim Burton’s first film featuring the Dark Knight is an […]
TV Review: What If…? S1/E6: What If…Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?
Taking us right back to the MCU’s beginning – if not chronologically in-universe, at least the first scenes we saw in the then-fledgling experiment that’s become a true cinematic behemoth […]
Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis (2021)
Author Alex White’s previous Alien novel, Alien: The Cold Forge, was a remarkable book – though it took place in a Weyland-Yutani lab in which experiments to weaponise Xenomorphs were […]
News: The Switch Collector: Volume One – Reprint
Video game historian and writer Jeffrey Wittenhagen crowdfunded the first printing of The Switch Collector: Volume One back in 2019. The book is a beautiful coffee table tome that features […]
Comic Book Review: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #14
Yet another chapter of War of the Bounty Hunters is here. As we enter the final stretch of the crossover, Doctor Aphra and her companion Sana are imprisoned on Crimson […]
Comic Book Review: Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #4
Back to the main series after a very mixed bag of crossover issues, the story continues here with Vader claiming his prize, the Hutts squabbling over the fact that the […]
Board Game Review: Pac-Man: The Board Game
Back in the mid-80s, there were a glut of board games based on video games, with some absolutely incredible designs that, whilst quite dated by today’s standards, were nonetheless visually […]
Review: Interplay Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 04)
Controversial opinion time – let’s get this out of the way right from the start: Earthworm Jim just isn’t a very good game. Though it was perhaps a victim of […]
TV Review: What If…? S1/E5: Zombies!?
For years, the term Marvel Zombie was a derogatory one, used to describe comic book fans who’d lap up anything by Marvel and ignore pretty much any other comic company’s […]
Film Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
When Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, few would have predicted just how big the MCU would become. I remember wondering how filmmakers could possibly make […]
Comic Book Review: What If #1 (1977)
Marvel’s animated Disney Plus series, What If…? has got off to a fantastic start, with imaginative, well-written stories, great acting and fantastic, comic book style animation. The variety of stories […]
Review: Unspottable
Local multiplayer games are nowhere near as prevalent these days as they were in the era before online gaming. When big publishers realised that taking multiplayer gaming online meant a […]
Comic Book Review: My Little Pony/Transformers II #4
The second of IDW/Hasbro’s unlikely crossovers – featuring two of their biggest 80s toy lines, and which I’ve now reviewed in their entirety – comes to an end in this […]
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Well, it doesn’t happen often – does it? Regular readers of the blog will know that I’ve been catching up with the Titan Books Alien novels, which I’d been reading […]
Comic Book Review: Telepaths #1
Another high profile title from AWA Studios, Telepaths is written by J. Michael Straczynski, the well-known, fan-favourite creator of Babylon 5 – who’s carved out quite a niche in the […]
TV Review: What If…? S1/E4: What If…Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
The first three episodes of What If…? have given us some really intriguing glances into the realms of endless possibility that exist within Marvel’s multiverse; with pretty action-focused episodes, demonstrating […]
