It’s a weird time in western comics. We’re into the triumphant third year, at least, of ‘the superhero movie bubble is about to burst!’ And the far right harassment campaigns that have wandered between pop culture media for years looking to start fights have decided that comics is their next hill to die on. Then …
No one ever thinks about the ghouls. The henchmen of the pulseless, ghouls do all the work but get none of the good press that vampires enjoy. Even zombies have better PR than they do, and all they do is eat, groan, stumble and decay. In this new found age of acceptance for horror, the …
There’s going to be a lot of stuff written about Agents of SHIELD over the next few months. Anything which isn’t banal ratings speculation should be pretty interesting because there’s a lot to chew on in there. Not only do you get the sensibilities and plot beats of Marvel movies transferred to the small screen, …
If you asked me which Marvel movie was my favorite, I’d say Iron Man. In fact, because I’m contrary, I’d say the Iron Man trilogy. Aside from the glorious combination of Robert Downey Jr and two directors sensible enough to give him his head, the story arc across those three movies is hugely ambitious. …
Adventure Time is one of those shows that, so far, has bounced off me. Like Nightvale, I’ve lost count of the amount of people whose opinion I trust that love it, but, like Nightvale, I’ve not jumped aboard that train just yet, I saw a couple of episodes, having been awake for 22 hours, on …
(Photo from Ryan Seacrest’s homepage) World War Z is one of the smartest blockbusters in years. It’s not a popular opinion, lost as it is inside the miles of column inches devoted to the movie’s cost overrun and reshoots, but it’s the truth. Despite the gleeful feeding frenzy of the press, World War Z isn’t …
There’s a single moment of moral absolutes in the first episode of Luther season three. The series opens on a TSG unit, guns drawn, fingers trembling, focused on a closed warehouse door. DSU Martin Schenk stands in the middle of them, looking pale and drawn and then…the door opens and DCI John Luther, with faithful …
Blue-3425 is going to die. He’s okay with it too, because he’s signed on to be a Holehead. The Holeheads are expendable troops fitted with psychic tumours that transmit everything they see back to Earth. In return for this brave action, and, of course, their deaths, any surviving members will receive a large payout. Holeheads …
A great man once said (After the ridiculous amount of adverts Channel 4 cram on the front of things) that friends are the family we get to choose. He was begging his landlady to forgive him for accidentally pretending he was dating his flatmate at the time. That particular moment didn’t go well. Fortunately, he …
Anyone who tells you any form of writing is easy either has no idea what they’re talking about or is lying to you. There isn’t a genre, sub-genre or field on the planet that’s easy to work in, not one. Hell, even bad writing requires diligence and hard work. Every single genre is difficult, …
Writer’s Block: The Shambling Guide to New York by Mur Lafferty