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Friday, 29 December 2017
The Last Jedi | review by Rafe McGregor
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Johnson can’t shake the shadow of the striking Empire. The Force Awakens (Star Wars Episode VII, released in 2015 and directed by ...
Monday, 25 December 2017
The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga, by Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, Larry Mahlstedt and chums (DC) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This four-hundred page Kindle edition collects issues 284 to 296 (and the first annual) of the series that had previously been Superboy an...
Monday, 18 December 2017
Groo: Fray of the Gods, by Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Tom Luth and Stan Sakai (Dark Horse) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Groo is one of my favourite comics characters of all time, his idiotically violent behaviour a reliable source of chuckles since the day I...
Monday, 11 December 2017
Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift, by Meredith Gran and Carey Pietsch (Boom! Studios) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Following the successful tour recounted in a previous title, Marceline the musical vampire has lost her mojo. She’s spent too long eating ...
Monday, 4 December 2017
Justice League | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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Does the latest grandiose tribute to solidarity hold its own? Ye-ah! One-dimensional bad guy threatens to take over or destroy the world...
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Very Best of Kate Elliott | review by Stephen Theaker
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This excellent book is currently available as part of a Tachyon Humble Bundle , which includes several other books that went down very wel...
Monday, 27 November 2017
Westworld, Season 1, by Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and chums (HBO/Sky Atlantic) | review by Stephen Theaker
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In the future life is too easy (good to know they fixed that whole global warming thing!) and so people jazz up their lives by coming to W...
Monday, 20 November 2017
iZombie, Season 2, by Rob Thomas and chums (The CW/Netflix) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Liv Moore is a zombie, after being scratched by one at a really wild boat party a couple of minutes into season one. Luckily she won’t go...
Thor: Ragnarok | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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Slugfests, humour, otherworldly settings, eccentric characters. What more could you ask for? Recent Star Wars and Transformers films are...
Monday, 13 November 2017
The Expanse, Season 1, by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Robin Veith and chums (Syfy/Netflix) | review by Stephen Theaker
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James S.A. Corey’s novel Leviathan Wakes was one of the first books I ever requested from NetGalley, back in 2011, but I never got around...
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Geostorm | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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Cliché-ridden? Yes. Stupid? Perhaps. Enjoyable? Undoubtedly. Gerard Butler’s presence in a film may be, for some, a red flag. For me, it...
Monday, 6 November 2017
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Season 1, by Max Landis and friends (BBC America/Netflix) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Elijah Wood plays a hotel busboy, Todd Brotzman, who discovers a bloodbath in a hotel room, just after apparently seeing himself (in prett...
Monday, 30 October 2017
Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 2, by Craig DiGregorio, Cameron Welsh, Noelle Valdivia and chums (Starz/Virgin) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This is how you make a second season. It takes everything that was right about the first season – Ash the selfish jerk, buckets of blood, ...
Monday, 16 October 2017
Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy (Disney) | review by Stephen Theaker
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The empire has ruled the galaxy since the events of Revenge of the Sith , but the Rebellion has been growing in strength, necessitating th...
Friday, 13 October 2017
Bloodshot: Reborn, Deluxe Edition 1, by Jeff Lemire, Mico Suayan, Butch Guice, et al. (Valiant) | review by Stephen Theaker
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“Who was Bloodshot?” asks the first page of this comic. “Red Eyes. White skin. Guns… Lots of guns.” He was a vicious, psychopathic killer...
Monday, 9 October 2017
The Lego Batman Movie, by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers et al. (Warner Bros) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Lego Batman was one of the funniest things about The Lego Movie , against strong competition, and the three Lego Batman games were all ter...
Friday, 6 October 2017
Blade Runner 2049 | review by Rafe McGregor
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Villeneuve’s sequel replicates, reverses, and reproduces Scott’s original(s). I qualified my review of The Voyage of the Moonstone in T...
Superf*ckers Forever, by James Kochalka and chums (IDW) | review by Stephen Theaker
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A five-issue miniseries of the utmost puerility, this is very entertaining. The Superf*ckers are a Legion of Super-Heroes-esque gang of te...
Sunday, 1 October 2017
British Fantasy Awards 2017: the winners (and my guesses!)
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The British Fantasy Awards have just been announced, at FantasyCon 2017 in Peterborough. I kept my thoughts about what might win to myself...
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Friday, 29 September 2017
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks by David Whitaker (BBC) | review by Jacob Edwards
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Seeing is believing – the BBC is your ser-vant. Although most Doctor Who fans have a favourite Doctor, for many the choice is as much a...
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