ReviewScifi
The Expanse: The Complete Seasons 1/2/3 (DVD TV series review).
Watching the opening season again, I started to pay particular attention until anyone was actually given names. It wasn’t until the fourth episode…
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March 2023
ReviewMagazines
Comic Book Artist #5 Summer 1999/Alter Ego vol. 2 #5 (magazine review).
I was kind of lucky to get the subsequent issue of Comic Book Artist # 5 Summer 1999/Alter Ego vol. 2 # 5…
ReviewFilms
Legion Of Super-Heroes (2022) (film blu-ray review).
In recent years, the Legion Of Super-Heroes has had a chequered release in the comic books, not to mention numerous remakes and team…
ReviewFantasy
Perdido: A Fragment From A Work In Progress by Peter Strawb (book review).
I’m fascinated by unfinished works of fiction. I can imagine that many people don’t see the point in reading something that hasn’t been…
ReviewComics
Will Eisner’s John Law Detective (comicbook review).
Let’s lay some dates on the table. ‘The Spirit’ was created in 1940 and ‘John Law Detective’ in 1948. The latter was created,…
ReviewFantasy
Illustrators Special #17: The Art of Glamour (magazine/book review).
In some respects, you do have to wonder why I’m covering ‘Illustrators Special # 17: The Art of Glamour’. Part of it is…
February 2023
ReviewIllustration
Illustrators Special # 17: 10th Anniversary Special (magazine/book review)
The ‘Illustrators’ magazine has now been going for a decade and this seventeenth special reprints the features on eight artists. When you consider…
ReviewScifi
Pendulum by AE Van Vogt (book review).
If you have any ambition with your favourite authors, then its to get and read everything they’ve done. With the 8 story ‘Pendulum’…
ReviewIllustration
Illustrators Special #11: The Art Of Frank Bellamy (magazine/book review).
In my youth, Frank Bellamy (1917-1976) was a legend. I first came across his work in ‘TV21’ where he did his take on…
ReviewBooks
The Constants Of Nature by John D. Barrrow (book review).
The problem with buying any science book is selecting by someone authoritative on the subject, easily checked on google, and whether the information…
ReviewScifi
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (book review).
One thing that is often missing from novels is the problem of bodily fluids. A short story usually hasn’t the space to give…
ReviewDoctor Who
Torchwood Soho: Parasite by James Goss (CD audio story review).
‘Torchwood Soho’ is a series of Big Finish Audios where we meet the teams who worked in Torchwood in the 1950s when it…