Comic Reviews
Elvira Meets H.P. Lovecraft #1 – David Avallone, Kewber Baal, Walter Pereyra & Taylor Esposito (Dynamite Comics)
The latest chapter of the adventures of Elvira, sees the Mistress of the Dark team up with the Master of the Mythos, old Howard Phillips himself, to prevent the Great Old Ones from laying waste…
Thundercats #1 – Declan Shalvey & Drew Moss (Dynamite Entertainment)
The Thundercats always worked on at least a couple of levels at once. If you were young when you first encountered them, the chances are you experienced them as a rough-and-tumble action-adventure cartoon series, largely…
Lilo & Stitch #1 – Greg Pak, Giulia Giacomino, Jeff Eckleberry & Joshua Middleton (Dynamite Entertainment)
Thanks in no small part to the Disney Channel, my daughter became a die-hard Lilo & Stitch fan when she was five years old, and because I was fully immersed in the films and series…
Star Wars:Hyperspace Stories #12 – Cecil Castellucci/Lucas Marangon (Dark Horse Comics)
Good grief, has it really been 40 years since the third installment of the greatest saga ever told was thrust upon us? Apparently so and in celebration of that landmark release, what better way to…
Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat – Matt Smith, Chris O’Halloran, Clem Robbins, Mike Mignola & Dave Stewart (Dark Horse Comics)
As befitting a story that takes place at the coldest and bleakest time of year, The Yule Cat is unsurprisingly set in Iceland, as it draws heavily from, and on, the festive folklore of said…
Headless Horseman – Lukas Ketner, Frank Cevtkovic, Angela Slatter, Valeira Burzo, Lauren Affe, Christine Porter, Phillip Sevy, Olivia Stephens, Tyler Crook, Leah Kilpatrick & David Dastmalchian (Dark Horse Comics)
It’s four colour moments like Headless Horseman that make me wish that I’d been around for EC Comics glory years, and serve as a reminder that the undisputed Colussuss of Horror and lurid comicbook guts,…
Star Wars: Tales From The Death Star – Cavan Scott, Soo Lee, Vincenzo Riccardi, Fico Ossio, Ingo Römling, and Juan Samu (Dark Horse Comics)
“Wah, wah, wah too much Star Wars”, “wah, wah, wah, they are ruining it for me”. That’s all you hear on social media from the stubborn, stuck in their ways fan, who would see the…
The Alternates #1 – Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Tim Seely, Christopher Mitten, Ian Herring, Tess Fowler, Scott Hepburn & Nate Piekos (Dark Horse Comics)
How much is enough? How much do you have to give before you’re handed your flowers and left to enjoy the rest of whatever time you have left doing what you want to do? That’s…
Past Tense – Jason McNamara/Alberto Massaggia/Paul Little (Dark Horse)
It’s a well-known fact that in the realm of Science Fiction, time travellers rarely have it easy on their time bending adventures. In HG Wells’ classic “The Time Machine” our protagonist dabbles with time and…
BLUE BOOK #1 – JAMES TYNION IV/KLAUS JANSEN/MICHAEL AVON OEMING (DARK HORSE)
One of the most infamous UFO abduction stories occurred in 1961 in the backwoods of New Hampshire, U.S.A. Barney and Betty Hill’s abduction case is the thing of nightmares and provided the blueprint for the…
MARVEL’S MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR’ DEBUTS 1st MARCH ON DISNEY+
Based on Marvel’s hit comic books, the series follows the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, whom she accidentally brings through time into present-day New York City. Equipped with…