Tag: comics
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Science Fiction critic Damian Walter has recently published a video essay about Dredd — primarily the 2012 film but also the comic and I guess I have a couple of things to say about it. Firstly, I think his comments about the film are all fair enough. I love the 2012 film; I recently rewatched…
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The Flash is my favourite superhero. He has a simple but amazing power, he’s a scientist and he’s an uncomplicated hero; what’s not to love? So I was quite looking forward to the new TV series, and the extended trailer they released over the summer whet my appetite. Now though, a few episodes in, I’m…
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WARNING: Some minor spoilers in the images, but nothing to get too excited about. Zenith is a comic strip from “my era” of 2000ad. I first started getting 2000ad from Prog 497 (after already purchasing several Titan reprint albums) and Zenith himself arrived in Prog 520. In some ways it’s a surprise Zenith was a…
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Sooner or later, someone is going to come up with the idea of a story about two wizards – a hirsute, midlander who worships a made up god and dapper suited, bald Glaswegian chaos magician – and the bitter feud between them. The real life story about the animosity between the UK’s greatest living comics…
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The decision by DC comics to cancel its imprint Vertigo’s longest running title Hellblazer and replace it with a new comic featuring its main character John Constantine in a new in-continuity title may not seem like that much of a big deal to outsiders. For the comics’ fans however, this represents the end of an…