Comic Reviews
The Writer #1 – Josh Gad, The Berkowitz Brothers & Ariel Olivetti (Dark Horse Comics)
Just a year ago, The Writer must have seemed like a brilliant idea. A comic book series turning a seemingly ordinary Jewish American guy into a superhero, harnessing powers that go back to legendary king…
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Doctor Who: Fifteenth Doctor #1 – Dan Watters, Kelsey Ramsay & Valentina Bianconi (Titan Comics)
With the Fifteenth Doctor’s first series done and deathly dusted, and nothing for it now but the long slog of almost exactly half a year up to the Christmas special, Titan Comics stands ready to…
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Mass Movement Presents… Episode 67 – Hold On To Your Hats And Glasses…
In which the middle miscreants chat about Tim’s recent Florida trip, talk Disney, beer, and bourbon, Christopher Golden’s ‘All Hallows’ and share their thoughts about the new season of Doctor Who. There’s lots for Star…
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BLUE BOOK #3 1947 – JAMES TYNION IV/KLAUS JANSEN/MICHAEL AVON OEMING (DARK HORSE)
Continuing what has, without a shadow of doubt, been my favourite comic book series of the last 12 months, Dark Horse drop the latest in the Blue Book Series which is taken from the famous…
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The Many Deaths Of Barnaby James – Neil Gibson, Brian Nathanson, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson, Saida Temofonte (Dark Horse Comics)
When Corey Haim declared that he “didn’t like horror comics” back in 1987’s classic The Lost Boys, I couldn’t help but agree with him. Apart from a few standout classics such as Tales From The…
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The Savage Sword of Conan #1 – Roy Thomas, Jim Zub, John Arcudi, Max Von Fafner, Patch Zircher & Jeffrey Shanks (Heroic Signatures & Titan Comics)
Following its debut in 1974, The Savage Sword of Conan was a mainstay of the Marvel monthly and bi-monthly titles for twenty-one years, and twenty-nine years after it disappeared from the shelves of comic book…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
