Reviews
Assert – The Great Resist (Engineer Records)
It’s no secret that I think Assert are one of the best UKHC bands EVER. Fast and furious, they write the kind of catchy, pit anthems that ninety-nine percent of their contemporaries, past and present,…
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Return to Skull Island – Simon Furnam, Christopher Jones & Charlie Kirtchoff (Titan Comics)
I’ve always been a sucker for monsters, the bigger the better. Maybe it was seeing King Kong scale the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in one hand and a whole load of biplane whooping…
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The Muppets Noir #1 – Written and drawn by Roger Langridge & Coloured by Dearbhla Kelly (Dynamite)
The Muppets Noir has a gloriously straightforward central premise: Kermit is a trenchcoated gumshoe, on the case of a missing pig with dreams of stage stardom. Read that sentence again, it will tell you the…
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Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor – The Prison Paradox Issue #4 – Written by Dan Watters, Drawn by Sami Kivela & Coloured by Valentina Bianconi (Titan Comics)
The latest comic-book adventure for the Fifteenth Doctor, alongside his Season 2 companion Belinda Chandra, comes to a conclusion in Issue #4, and there will be readers who complain that it’s very much “just” a…
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Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor – The Prison Paradox Issue #3 – Written by Dan Watters, Drawn by Sami Kivela & Coloured by Valentina Bianconi (Titan Comics)
Whenever the Doctor travels with a non-regular “gang,” there’s always a sense that several of them, if not all of them, are going to die before we get to the end of the story. In…
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Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor : The Prison Paradox #2 – Written by Dan Watters, Drawn by Sami Kivela & Coloured by Valentina Bianconi (Titan Comics)
Issue #2 of the Fifteenth Doctor’s latest comic book adventure is a delicately balanced thing. On the one hand, it delivers a hefty amount of exposition in non-dialogue panels, telling the story, rather than allowing…
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Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #1 – Written by Dan Watters, Drawn by Sami Kavela & Coloured by Valentina Bianconi (Titan Comics)
To some extent, everything about the Fifteenth Doctor’s era signalled a shift towards a younger audience again. As with around two-thirds of the Thirteenth Doctor’s time in the Tardis, there was an emphasis on primary…
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System of Slaves – Live Not By Lies At One Time We Dared Not Even Whisper (Blind Destruction, Deviance, Diy Kolo, Engineer, Jans Little Hammer, Mass Production, Rejected Abused, Urinal Vinyl)
The second full-length release from the Welsh quartet, and it’s a continuation of the band’s Nausea-esque feisty, metallic, D-beat punk. Short, sharp bursts of musical anger matched by caustic lyrics addressing sexism and the destructive,…
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Instigators – Phoenix LP/ Shockgun LP (Boss Tuneage)
Here’s a real treat for collectors of UK punk, as Boss Tuneage reissues these two seminal albums by Instigators, coinciding with the band returning to the live stage for the first time in 30 years….
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Diaz Brothers – The World Is Yours (Serial Bowl)
Five years since their debut, Diaz Brothers have treated us to a long-awaited follow-up. For some context, Diaz Brothers formed when HDQ disbanded after Dickie Hammond passed away. If they initially carried the flame and…
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Propagandhi – At Peace (Epitaph Records)
So it’s finally here. After a hiatus of 7 years, 7 months, and 3 days (yeah, I was counting. Also, why not go full seven even on the days, lads?), the Canadian punk stalwarts Propagandhi…
