Comic Book Review: Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards #2 (2022)
The evil Dr Tod has possession of an alien bomb, primed with a substance that will mutate humans that come into contact with it once detonated. Dr Tachyon – one […]
TV Review: Ms. Marvel: S1/E6 – No Normal
The Ms Marvel finale is already here – and sees Kamala and her friends desperately trying to save Kamran from the overzealous Department of Damage Control. Despite the stumbles of […]
Comic Book Review: Primordial #6
The journey of the three animal astronauts comes to an end in this final issue, bringing us a beautiful, bittersweet conclusion to the tragic tale of Laika, Able and Mrs […]
Book Review: Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
The fantasy genre is stuffed full of multi-part, grand epics that feature universe shattering politics, action and complex plots – with scores of characters in each saga to get to […]
Comic Book Review: Primordial #3
The X-Files-esque conspiracy of Primordial continues in the third issue, with Dr Pembrook trying to discover how Yelena – who took care of the dog Laika before she was launched […]
News: Omen Exitio: Plague Receives Significant Update on Switch
It’s been a while since I reviewed creepy, Lovecraftian interactive fiction title Omen Exitio: Plague on the Switch – it was published way back in 2019 after all. Despite the […]
Book Review: The Man with All the Answers (2020)
It’s not often that a piece of narrative-based media – be it comic, film, book, game or anything else with a story attached – can truly surprise or shock, but […]
Book Review: The Humans (2013)
A successful mathematics professor on the verge of a hugely significant breakthrough is found wandering naked through Cambridge. His family and friends – even his dog – realise that Andrew […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Book Review: Alien: Prototype (2019)
It’s a shame that so many Alien-related novels fall back on so many obvious tropes or rely on familiar characters to spin their tales. Though Alien: Prototype is loaded with […]
Book Review: Fear Street: The New Girl (1989)
RL Stine is an absolute powerhouse in the world of gently scary, creepily amusing kid-friendly horror thanks to his perennially popular Goosebumps titles. There are sixty two titles in the […]
Book Review: Alien: Echo (2019)
Making my way through the recent range of Alien tie-in novels has been fun, but I must admit that – more times than not – the books have been entertaining […]
Spotlight: A Woman Goes to a Private Games Industry Party
In light of the shocking revelations that have come to the fore this week about the sexist, misogynist and overall toxic work environment at Activision-Blizzard, I wanted to take the […]
Book Review: Aliens: Infiltrator (2021)
With Aliens: Infiltrator being a prequel to Aliens: Fireteam – a co-op multiplayer video game due this Summer – there was a genuine concern that it’d be a lazy cash-in, […]
Comic Book Review: Grendel Kentucky Vol 1 (TPB)
Having missed the first issue of the series, I’ve now caught up with Grendel Kentucky’s four issue run thanks to the collected edition that’s just been released. The story sees […]
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