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Harley Quinn Annual #1 (Comics Review)

It has indeed been too long since I’ve read a Harley Quinn comic. There was September’s Future’s End tie-in one-shot of course, which was utterly awesome by the way, but apart from that, nothing really concrete. Reading that one-shot, and the Harley Quinn Invades Comic Con one-shot from July reminded me of what I’ve been missing. Harley […]

Alien vs Predator: Fire and Stone #1-2 (Comics Review)

Dark Horse Comics’ big re-energising of its various Alien, Predator and Alien vs Predator franchises began last month when the publisher launched new 4-issue mini-series for each franchise, and also another one for Ridley Scott’s last, Prometheus, which is the prequel to the first Alien movie. All four books have been quite amazing so far […]

Velvet #8 (Comics Review)

I’ve said this before and I say it again, Image’s Velvet keeps getting better with every issue almost without fail. Against all my expectations, this title has gotten better and better with time, and both the writing and the art have been the cause of that from the start. Velvet Templeton is a fantastic superspy […]

Death of Wolverine: Weapon X Program #1 (Comics Review)

Marvel has launched a ton of new titles following Death of Wolverine #4, which saw the death of Logan aka Wolverine, one of the most famous of all the X-Men and certainly a major pop culture icon. Some titles like Logan’s Legacy have pretty much been just beating around the bush and telling stories that […]

Horus Heresy: The Unremembered Empire by Dan Abnett (Book/Audio Review)

The last audiobook that I remember listening to from Black Library is Dan Abnett’s Prospero Burns, one of the two books alongside Graham McNeill’s A Thousand Sons that told the story of the fall of Prospero, of Magnus, and the Thousand Sons Legion. I’d tried to read the book before many times but always gave […]

Grayson #4 (Comics Review)

In last month’s Grayson #3 we saw some pretty big things go down for our titular hero, ending in a rather emotional moment that played up the whole aspect of why Batman never carried a gun and why he never trained his sidekicks like Dick Grayson into their use. It was also one of the […]

Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel #1 (Comics Review)

Valiant Comics’ Eternal Warrior series is one that I’ve been meaning to read for a few months now, ever since I started really getting into the publisher’s team book Unity and then recently with the whole Armor Hunters crossover. Gilad is a character that I really like reading about and even felt that he was […]

Gotham Academy #2 (Comics Review)

While the many Bat-books over the last 75 years or so have done much to explore the younger generation of Gotham, we haven’t really seen the more… civilian side of things. The normal kids of Gotham who get caught up in the various mysteries of this city. That’s where last month’s debut Gotham Academy comes in. […]

The Amazing Spider-Man #8-9 (Comics Review)

Dan Slott, Christos Gage and many other writers have been laying down the foundation of Marvel’s current event, Spider-Verse for the last several weeks now and it is pretty much time for readers to get the dividends on their investments. In the pages of both Edge of Spider-Verse and The Amazing Spider-Man, we’ve seen how various […]

Arrow Season 3 Ep 5 (TV Show Review)

Goes without saying that last week’s Episode 4, “The Magician“, was a pretty big deal for the show since it finally debuted one of the true big bads of the DC universe, Ra’s al Ghul, the Demon himself. It was a bit of an anticlimactic reveal in terms of Matt Nable stepping on to the screen […]