Written by Si Spurrier | Drawn by PJ Holden | Colours by Jordie Bellaire | Published by Titan Books Last we saw, Bastard Zane was in a bit of a bind; not only had mathematician Thyme screwed him out of early retirement from his duties as an afterlife enforcer, but he’d also conned his way into perpetual reincarnation, meaning that he could […]
Last night Damon Lindelof, co-creator/showrunner of Lost and much-maligned screenwriter of sci-fi movies that really got your goat, tweeted a link to a Deadline article reporting that his new HBO series The Leftovers had just been picked up for a 10-episode season: In his follow-up to Lost, Damon Lindelof has received a 10-episode series pickup by HBO for drama pilot The Leftovers,which was directed […]
28th August It’s a week of almost-beginnings and not-quite endings: Angel and Faith #25 ends one half of Buffy‘s Season Nine by wrapping up the climactic action within the first few pages and shakes up the status quo enough for Season Ten to arrive feeling relatively fresh. Gage and Isaac’s work over the past couple years has been excellent, […]
21st August X-Men #4, Brian Wood, David Lopez, Marvel Comics Artist David Lopez fills in on this one-shot issue that sees Logan driving Jubilee and her new baby Shogo on a nostalgic tour around her native Los Angeles while Storm and the rest of her team attempt to rescue a falling plane, finding some time to […]
How do you get from Matt Damon playing a hispanic dude in an exo-suit to a nostalgic little tin can who just wants to know what love is? The answer, my friends, is a ton of spoilers for Elysium. 1. The World’s A Mess Even before Elysium begins, we’ve screwed up planet Earth good and proper. […]
Stars: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Sara Tomko, Richard Riehle | Written and Directed by Nir Paniry Tom (Sasha Roiz) is trapped inside someone else’s memories. After creating a machine that enables the user to observe a person’s recollections from the inside, he makes a miscalculation and ends up separating mind from body, existing […]
Written by Simon Spurrier | Drawn by PJ Holden | Colours by Jordie Bellaire | Published by Titan Books My crush on Spurrier’s writing continues with the second issue of his and Holden’s afterlife black comedy, which has far less to prove than its first issue and instead just gets on with telling a hell of a good story. Not that they […]
And hopefully something like normal service resumes! 14th August Infinity #1, Jonathan Hickman, Jim Cheung, Marvel Comics Marvel’s latest event begins with this galaxy-spanning opus featuring Thanos as the great big bad guy. As regular readers will know, I’m not much of a Marvel guy (the Image cartel that has its grip on my pull […]
DJANGO PREPARE A COFFIN Stars: Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman | Written by Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Rossetti | Directed by Ferdinando Baldi When Tarantino wrote “the D is silent, hillbilly” in his screenplay for Django Unchained I can only imagine he had the same rueful wish that Django Prepare A Coffin had been a […]
I’m sort of technically on holiday this week after moving house and starting a new job (y’know, one that doesn’t involve free comics and lets me buy luxuries like bread and loo roll) last week, which is why things have been a little behind with this column. My contribution’s a round-up session for the most […]
Just me again this time, but I hope to have Jack back (and be on track) for this week’s comics… July 17th Fantastic Four #10, Matt Fraction, Mark Bagley, Marvel Comics Following the apparent reveal last issue that Sue Storm can no longer control what parts of her are invisible (I lost last issue halfway […]
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet, Donnie Wahlberg | Written by Brian Goodman, Paul T. Murray & Donnie Wahlberg | Directed by Brian Goodman There’s something of a recurring theme with my DVD reviews, that of the film with a protracted release schedule and incredibly misleading cover image. In the case of What Doesn’t Kill You the year was 2008 and […]
10th July It’s a solo venture for me this week as Jack’s off to parts unknown to fight irradiated monkey lizards and track down an ancient elixir that cures hayfever and the sniffles. Or he just didn’t buy any comics. I get confused sometimes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer #23 (Season Nine), Andrew Chambliss, Georges Jeanty, […]
Written by Si Spurrier | Drawn by PJ Holden | Colours by Jordie Bellaire | Published by Titan Books I’m a little biased going into this book because, as anyone with a passing familiarity with our Panel Discussion posts can tell you, I’ve kind of got a thing for Si Spurrier’s writing. His cynical sense of humour, unbridled invention (not to […]
3rd July Just a short(ish) installment this week, as this really should have gone out last week but circumstances conspired against us (i.e. someone gave me a copy of The Last of Us which exacerbated my natural procrastinatory tendencies). So prepare for a haphazard but mercifully brief rundown of what last week in comics looked […]
Hey guys, Mark here. As my comics addiction turned much more literal last week and I ended up buying 10 new books at the store (along with attempting to inject Hawkeye pages into my bloodstream with my trusty [hip drug] needle, which is EXACTLY as hard as it sounds), I decided to go for brevity and […]
Starring: Daisy Lowe, Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett | Written and Directed by Tobias Tobbell Okay, let’s start at the beginning for once: Confine is just an awful name for about anything that’s designed to entertain. Is it about confinement, or being confined? Or maybe it’s an order to confine someone? Whatever way you look at it, that […]
19th June 2013 Jack Saga Volume 2, trade paperback, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Image Comics This is the first of two trade paperbacks I splurged on this week, though technically I’ve saved money by choosing to follow Saga in trades rather than monthly books. Saga is the uh, saga of a couple from opposing […]
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver | Written by Wentworth Miller | Directed by Park Chan-Wook Wealthy, privileged but unfortunately deceased Richard Stoker has left behind something of a strange legacy: a widow in the repressed but oddly sexual Evie; a fatherless daughter in India, a sharply intelligent and emotionally distant eighteen year-old; and Charlie, the […]
12th June 2013 Hey there, kids/adults/other! Today’s something of a bumper issue as Jack and I appear to actually have bought more than one comic each this week, so be prepared for us to go on a bit. And by “us” I of course mean “me”. It also marks the tenth installment of Panel Discussion. We made […]
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Alan Alda, Angela Bassett, David Schwimmer, Noah Wyle | Written and Directed by Rod Lurie I’m always somewhat skeptical when it comes to modern films that have an overlong transition from celluloid to home video, as there either wasn’t enough interest in a DVD release from the original distributor or nobody […]
