A few years ago, a chap who most definitely knows about these sorts of things, told me that the best Special Forces operators and Intelligence officers are the ones that most normal people would never…
As much as comic fandom loves superheroes, it loves anti-heroes more. That’s why Frank Miller’s Batman in full bastard mode Dark Knight took the four colour world by storm and why Alan Moore’s Watchmen is…
Subjugation, slavery and the singular wills of would-be tyrants are just some of the injustices the Mjolnir wielding Jane Foster overcomes in Jason Aaron’s tour de force Lords of Midgard. Wait, you didn’t think she…
Two words was all it took. Two simple words that took less than three seconds to read sent the collective consciousness of comic fandom into meltdown. It wasn’t the words per se that that caused…
Wade Wilson really is the man of the moment; and while a more cynically minded chap might attribute his surge in popularity to the box office breaking, smash hit movie that took his peculiar brand…
Poor old Spidey. Even when he’s on top of the world, having become the CEO of his own multi-national company, the Parker Luck won’t let him relax and enjoy it, insisting on raining on his…
Strange things are afoot in the Marvel Universe, and right at front, in prime position leading the weird charge is Gwen Poole. Catapulted into the world of caped crusaders and costumed criminals from a reality…
By now the whole world and its dog (hey, I don’t make the rules, dogs are still man’s best friend and more popular than cats) knows who Groot and Rocket are. They’re the walking, talking…
There are moments in history, both real and fictional, that change the way you, in the former, and the participating players, in the latter, view the world. Standoff was one of those moments in the…
How does that old saying go? Ah yes, that\’s right. You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. For most people that’s etched in stone. Most people though, don’t have the wealth,…
I never used to place much stock, or had any faith in epiphany until I read Brian Michael Bendis’ run on X-Men. Before he started the writing the book, I was always, at best ambivalent…
Does fate set each of us on an irreversible path the moment that we’re born? Are our roles in the Universal theatre predestined and predetermined, or can we change who, and what, we are and…
