Trinity: The Best Kept Secret by Jacques F. Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris (book review)
Trinity is a location in Nevada, close to the Manhattan Project and 30 miles from the first nuclear detonation with
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Comic Book Creator #45 September 2026 (magazine review).
You can always expect a few surprises with Comic Book Creator, usually involving creators I’ve never heard of, such as
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The Old Guard 2 (2025) (film review).
Uma Thurman’s Discord digs up a 500-year grudge and the rules of immortality get murkier than ‘Highlander’. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard 2’ (2025).
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The Old Guard (2020) (film review).
Charlize Theron leads a team of immortal mercenaries who keep getting shot and keep getting back up. GF Willmetts reviews the blu-ray of ‘The Old Guard’ (2020).
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2001: Beyond The Infinite by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. (book review)
John L. Flynn’s light, heavily illustrated guide to Kubrick’s ‘2001’ has interviews with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood going for it, but it trips over an avalanche of factual errors along the way.
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Cryptology #8 April 2026 (magazine review).
You can always tell when a magazine is taking off when some issues seem to be selling out. Cryptology #8
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Doctor Strange Endless Nightmare by Kevin J. Anderson, Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (review).
Periodically, publisher Abrams has been releasing standalone stories using characters from the Marvel Universe. Here we have Doctor Strange: Endless
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Back Issue Annual # 1 2026 (magazine review).
TwoMorrows gathers the Neal Adams material from four hard-to-find issues of ‘Back Issue’ into a single 82-page annual, covering his DC Comics years and his own Continuity titles.
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Alter Ego # 201 September 2026 (magazine review)
Reed Tucker profiles E. Nelson Bridwell, DC’s walking encyclopaedia and creator of the Inferior Five, in ‘Alter Ego’ # 201, plus a 1976 Stan Lee interview with Roy Thomas and Fawcett at the movies.
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Survivor by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
Octavia Butler wrote five Patternist novels. The earlier books explore the long history that eventually leads to the Patternist society,
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