The Mansters – The Mansters (Ampmandens Records)
Picture the scene. It’s the closing third of the Royal Rumble and the ring is full of heavyweight, old school brawlers pounding the crap out of each other, when all of a sudden, the countdown…
Picture the scene. It’s the closing third of the Royal Rumble and the ring is full of heavyweight, old school brawlers pounding the crap out of each other, when all of a sudden, the countdown…
If you’re approaching, or have entered, middle-age, then the chances are that you wiled away a good portion of your teenage years and early twenties watching eighties and early nineties action heroes like Sylvester Stallone,…
Way back in the mists of time (that’s the eighties for you kids not old enough to remember when Metallica were actually good) the Bay Area was the thrash capital of the world. It was…
Superstar writer Cullen Bunn and blockbuster artists Steve McNiven, Greg Land, Leinil Yu, Salvador Larroca and Adam Kubert gather the world’s greatest heroes for MONSTERS UNLEASHED! Giant skyscraper-sized behemoths have invaded, and it’s all hands on…
In a world beset by danger, the United States of America needs a team of heroes they can rely on. In 2017, you’re gonna get them, True Believer – because they’re coming at you in…
As a kid who read comics and grew up in the seventies and eighties, it was inevitable that at some point, I was going to collide headlong with Heroes for Hire. And when I did,…
The Avengers: Steed and Mrs. Peel: The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 2 – Starring Julian Wadham, Olivia Poulet, Terry Molloy, Michael Keane, Lizzie Roper, Andrew Wincott, Kiruna Stamell, Richard Earl, John Banks, Paul Kemp, Michael…
For those of you who have never read a Modesty Blaise novel I urge you to get out there and do so now; to my mind, they are what the James Bond novels would have…
“I\’ve stood side by side with the toughest, most powerful heroes in the known universe and always held my own. But today… today I need to be something more.” – Iceman Today, Marvel Comics is excited…
Marvel’s Mallard with the Mouth Lands this January What do you get when you take one cynical anthropomorphic duck (named Howard) and cross it with the smelliest (and most annoying) mercenary in the Marvel Universe?…
I don’t know what I was expecting when I sheepishly walked into the Tramshed’s crowded but intimate venue, elbowing my way to the front of the stage with shaking hands clasping my Cardiff-priced drink. I…
This is the perfect example of how first impressions can be deceiving. For a band named Violent Instinct putting an album out on Spirit Of The Streets, I was expecting some hard as nails, boot-meets-face…