Comic Book Review: The Lost Boys Vol. 1 (2016)
I’ve been a huge fan of Joel Schumacher’s 1987 teen vampire movie The Lost Boys ever since I first saw it at the tail end of the 80s. It’s a […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers/The Terminator #4
The final issue of the first ever meeting between the two sci-fi franchises comes to an end with this issue. Starscream, ever the ambitious backstabber, has a proposal for our […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #4
The nostalgically styled mini-series, Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies, reaches an abrupt and anti-climactic end with issue #4 (actually the fifth issue of the series, seeing as the opening chapter […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #2
Here we are with the third issue of Transformers ’84, a strange situation given it’s actually #2 – which stemmed from the opening chapter being a #0 issue. Usually used […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84 #0
If you know me, you know I’ve been a Transformers fan since the very beginning, immediately falling in love with the cartoon, the toys and their Marvel Comics-powered lore as […]
TV Review: WandaVision – S1/E5 Review
The last ten years or so has seen an explosion in binge watching, fuelled by the decline of media consumed via ‘traditional’ means. Entertainment has, for the most part, not […]
Comic Book Review: The Ballad of Halo Jones: Volume 2
Having recently reviewed the first volume of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s classic series, it was only a matter of time before I reacquainted myself with the continuing chronicles of Halo Jones – and, as with the first volume, it’s been an absolute joy to rediscover the series and experience it all over again, several decades later. The second volume […]
Comic Book Review: Star Trek Annual (Vol. 1) #3 (1988)
Though I’m not overly familiar with Star Trek comics, it seems to me that the Peter David-written Annual #3, published in 1988, is a bit of an oddity – given that it focuses so strongly on Scotty, a prominent and popular character, but not one who often gets to be the sole focus of a story. What’s also unusual is […]
Transformers at 35: The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The film that ruined a lot of childhoods, The Transformers: The Movie was a massive cultural event in its day, at least for those of us at a certain age […]
Games of My Life: Pac-Man – Arcade/Various
Pac-Man’s 39th birthday was yesterday, so I wanted to get some words out there about the enduring yellow legend. The cultural impact of Pac-Man can’t be overstated. Here was a […]
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