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Song of Saya #1 Comic Review
IDW, $3.99
Writers: Daniel Liatowitsch, Todd Ocvirk
Art: Yair Herrera
A young doctor’s promise is cut short when a car accident kills his parents and leaves him in need of experimental brain surgery. Josh finds his perceptions warping from between our established reality and a hellish landscape of organic, haemorrhaging structures and hideous physiognomies. Now confined to the hospital he … read more
Spring Memorabilia Show at NEC Birmingham, 27-28 March 2010
Venue: NEC, Birmingham
Date: 27-27th March 2010
Time: 11am to 5pm (Early entry from 9am Sat, 10pm Sun)
Price: Adults £10, Children £5, Family Ticket (2 Adults and up to 3 children) £30
Website: www.memorabilia.co.uk
This March the Memorabilia Show at the NEC in Birmingham will include videogames, with several major games publishers making an appearance.
Confirmed comic talent … read more
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Tagged comic books, films / movies, graphic novels, indie comics, small press, video games
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Dante’s Inferno #1 Comic Review
Wildstorm, $3.99
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Diego Latorre
As the comic book and video game industries progressively compete for the same demographic, there’s understandably a lot more comics based on game franchises hitting the shelves each month. Dante’s Inferno has the distinction of being not only based on the upcoming game of the same name, but Alighieri’s epic poem The … read more
Mass Effect: Redemption #2 Comic Review
Dark Horse, $3.50
Story: Mac Walters
Script: John Jackson Miller
Art: Omar Francia
Colours: Michel Atiyeh
The universe Bioware have forged for Mass Effect is nothing short of magnificent, but it doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to spot the problem in expanding this blossoming space opera franchise into other media. While the promotional material for the recently released sequel … read more
Batman: Arkham Asylum Teaser Trailer Online
An intriguing teaser trailer for the new video game Batman: Arkham Asylum is online. Last week an odd environment trailer showcased Ol’ Arkham itself, while this footage gives several glimpses of the characters involved.
Unsurprising given the recent surge of public interest from The Dark Knight, the Joker hogs a large portion of the meagre 44 seconds shown, and … read more
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is, er… Forcefully Unleashed?
The demo for the much anticipated Star Wars unleashed has just hit Xboxlive, and it’s pretty darn good to say the least. In fact I was so impressed by it that I decided to write a certain someone a little letter:
Dear Mr Lucas,
Unlike most of my ilk, I would not accuse you of raping my childhood, or even … read more
Warner Brothers Survey Capcom’s Lost Planet
Sub-zero sci-fi coming to the big screen
Despite Iron Man, Hellboy 2 and The Dark Knight all extending beyond the salivating fanboy demographic and enjoying mainstream attention, Hollywood is arguably at risk of running the comic book repository dry. The solution? Resume drilling, with Daniel Plainview fortitude, into that other bottomless source of inspiration: the video game industry.
Against solid … read more
Halo Graphic Novel Review
2007, Marvel
Writers: Lee Hammock, Jay Foerber, Brett Lewis
Art: Simon Bisley, Andrew Robinson, Ed Lee, Moebius, Tsutomu Nihel
Given that Halo recently earned itself a page in media history as the first console franchise to send Hollywood to its gout-swollen knees, the Master Chief’s transition from video game to comic book was inevitable. Sadly, like the trilogy of games … read more
Silent Hill Movie Review
2006
Dir: Christophe Gans
Script: Roger Avary, Christophe Gans, Nicolas Boukhrief
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Jodelle Ferland, Deborah Kara Unger, Alice Krige, Tanya Allen, Kim Coates
Generic American couple Rose and Christopher Da Silva (Mitchell, Bean) are concerned about their daughter Sharon’s (Holden) ceaseless sleepwalking. The possessed daughter frequently attempts to take her own life, while … read more
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