
Comic Book Review: The X-Cellent #1
When Peter Milligan and Mike Allred took over X-Force back in 2001 by debuting an entirely new team, the reception from fans was decidedly mixed. Not only did the usual […]
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When Peter Milligan and Mike Allred took over X-Force back in 2001 by debuting an entirely new team, the reception from fans was decidedly mixed. Not only did the usual […]
Though the Battletoads saw a sort of revival with the 2020 Xbox reboot, any excitement about their return died down extremely quickly, with the game itself being met with a […]
You can probably guess my enthusiasm levels for catching up with the Titan Battletoads comic – which attempts to fill in the gaps between the trio’s last game, Battletoads Arcade […]
We’ve already seen my choices for video game of the year and comic book of the year (and established the rules: my choice isn’t necessarily one that released in 2021, […]
Does it feel like too much hard work to get yourself out there on the dating scene? Your dating problems are nothing compared to the ones faced by the characters […]
I first encountered Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier’s Conan parody Groo the Wanderer back in the late 80s, when his adventures were being published by Marvel Comics imprint Epic. I […]
A pair of mid-90s, 16-bit classics from LucasArts are headed to Switch on the 29th of June. Zombies Ate My Neighbors – published by Konami and known simply as ‘Zombies’ […]
We’ve arrived at the 90s/early 00s in our weekly journey through the decades in WandaVision, a trip that paused for breath only once, for episode 4’s extended, gripping exposition that […]
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 […]
The fourth episode of WandaVision is here – and it doesn’t mess around. The first three episodes took us on a wild, funny, sometimes creepy journey through American sitcoms of […]
Moving on from the black and white 50s-then-60s style shenanigans of the first two episodes – with the introduction of colour at the end of the second show – we’re […]
Despite the intriguing reveal from the end of the first episode, it’s straight back into the comfortingly familiar 1950s monochromatic, white picket fenced sitcom setting for the second episode of […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often accused of being a bit too cookie cutter at times, in terms of tone and content. Though the now-sprawling universe of interconnected characters is […]
When the character of Borat debuted in 2000 on Da Ali G Show, the short scenes featuring the ersatz Kazakhstani reporter were an absolute blast, with pranks that often revealed […]
I’m a massive fan of the Jackbox Party Pack games – they’re simple, hilarious and inventive game collections that pretty much anyone can play – and the barrier to entry is incredibly low, given that players can use any internet connected device to play while the main action plays out on the TV. There are six Jackbox Party Pack collections […]
Available now on PC (itch.io – pay what you want) It seems like everyone and their anthropomorphic dog is playing Animal Crossing right now, which is great. Though Animal Crossing has always been popular – I’ve been a huge fan since 2004 – with the arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons at a time when many people have an unusually […]