Back Issue #158 April 2025 (magazine review).
With this issue of ‘Back Issue’, we have the start of editor Roger Ash’s tenure on this title. In his
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Floods, Frankensteins and Foundation: another week in genre land (scifi news roundup).
Apple TV+, never one to miss an opportunity to tell us how “visually stunning” their shows are (probably while standing
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The Invisibles Book 1 by Grant Morrison, Steve Yeowell and Jill Thompson (graphic novel review).
Reading Les Dennis’ book, ‘DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes’, last month, I came across
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The Sentinels: radium, romance & rampaging Retro-Futurism (TV series).
If you thought you knew the First World War—mud, mustard gas, and moustaches bristling like bayonets—then Canal+’s new French science
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Although not noted as such, ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ is actually its fourth season, released in 2011. This time, the BBC
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Editorial – September 2025: The World Is Run By Templates.
Hello everyone, Templates. A few decades ago, I wondered why certain towns and cities in the UK adopted a specific
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DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes by Les Daniels (book review).
I have to confess I picked up this book, ‘DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes’
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Alter Ego #193 June 2025 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘Alter Ego’ is devoted to over 50 pages written by Eddy Zeno as he looks at the
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Doctor Who series six: the one where Hitler ends up in a cupboard (retrospective).
Doctor Who series six, the year Steven Moffat decided the show needed fewer Daleks and more trousers-wetting confusion. This was
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Alter Ego #192 March 2025 (magazine review).
In this edition of ‘Alter Ego’, writer Mark Carlson-Ghost disproves the myth that very few superheroes existed in the 1950s,
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