NewsHorror
Leap Of Faith – William Friedkin On The Exorcist (film review by Mark R. Leeper).
This is a good commentary and companion piece for the original film with many ideas coming together. It has its own philosophical line…
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January 2021
January 2021
NewsComics
Batman Year One: Frank Miller’s genius opus (retrospective).
Ed and Jim are here again to bring us a detailed guide through Frank Miller’s genius opus, Batman Year One. The comic-book takes…
NewsSpy-Fy
Psychic super-agents of the CIA (spy-fy documentary: full video).
ESPer spies fighting for the CIA’s covert psychic super-agent division? It sounds like something from the last X-Men film, or maybe a SHIELD…
NewsCulture
Editorial – Feb 2021: Disaster Reality Can Be A Poor Substitute In Fiction.
Hello everyone, With the continuation of covid-19 and, currently, 9 variants and counting, the template of disaster movies in any genre is likely…
NewsScifi
Prometheus (a scifi movie retrospective).
Oliver Harper is on hand to bring you a detailed film retrospective of the Alien prequel, Prometheus, the 2012 sci-fi flick directed by…
NewsToys/Models
Halcyon Power Loader Model: a model-building exercise article by: GF Willmetts.
Introduction A couple years back, moving in a new bookcase into my front room, I hadn’t anticipated the whoopf! of air pressure putting…
NewsShort fiction
The GodStuff or Even Things God Might Not Believe: a story of sorts by: GF Willmetts.
Being godstuff is a lot of hard work. You think running a small country, by my standards of size, by dictatorship is easy…
NewsToys/Models
Battlestar Galactica: let’s get modelling with the Chief (video).
Aaron Douglas, the actor better know as Battlestar Galactica‘s Chief Tyrol, assembles and paints various Battlestar model kits for your glorious viewing pleasure.…
ReviewComics
Back Issue #83 September 2015 (magazine review).
I did wonder when ‘Back Issue’ would get around to the New X-Men and Alpha Flight and they did so nearly six years…
ReviewBooks
Pictorial Composition: An Introduction by Henry Rankin Poore (book review).
In his book, ‘Imaginative Realism’, James Gurney spent a lot of time on the mechanics of composition and how to engage the viewer.…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #105 October 2011 (magazine review).
It’s hard to believe that it was ten years ago that Alter Ego # 105 explored the Comics Code Authority. As Richard J.…
ReviewIllustration
The Art Of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker by Phil Szostak, foreword by Doug Chiang (book review).
I’ll be honest, readers, I’ve put off reviewing ‘The Art Of The Rise of Skywalker’ ever since I emerged, blinking into the sunlight…