Month: August 2007

  • JSA: The Golden Age TPB Review

    JSA: The Golden Age TPB Review

    DC, 1993 Story: James Robinson, Paul Martin Smith Writing: James Robinson Art: Paul Martin Smith Colours: Richard Ory Letters: John Costanza The DC universe has become a daunting, temporally retarded place of late, never moving forward, always looking back. While this is not essentially a bad thing – the costumed vigilante has changed very little…

  • Top 10 Spider-man Villains

    Top 10 Spider-man Villains

    Though Spider-Man’s rogues gallery is not as fine as Batman’s, it’s still a memorable assortment of rapscallions and rascals. With Spider-Man 3 giving box office records a sly slap on the rear, and a Spidey 4 inevitable, I thought it time to look at some of the web-slinger’s most nefarious nasties. 10. The Lizard Like…

  • The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story TPB Review

    The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story TPB Review

    Marvel, 2007 Writer: Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction Art: David Aja, Travel Foreman, Derek Fridolfs, Russ Heath, John Severin, Sal Buschema, Tom Palmer Colours: Matt Hollingsworth, Dean White, Laura Marti Every great superhero has his defining moment, an essential work which all fans of that hero will have read. Some of the greatest have several. Miller’s…

  • The Comic Book Crisis

    I have seen the future, and it’s dark… It’s 2018. Little Timmy Carbuncle and Jeremiah Hangnail exit the cinema, fleshly bedazzled by the lurid colours of Spider-man 7, in which our favourite webslinger battles a symbiote-possessed Aunt May. “That was proper rad,” says little Timmy Carbuncle. “I can’t believe we have to wait three more…

  • Iron Man Disassembled TPB Review

    Iron Man Disassembled TPB Review

    2004, Marvel Writer: John Jackson Miller, Mark Ricketts Pencilers: Jorge Lucas, Tony Harris, Scott Kolins Inkers: Tom Feister, Charles Wallace Colours: Antonio Fabela, J.D. Mettler Though Marvel’s finest would soon reassemble under the New Avengers title, the ‘Disassembled’ plotline saw the team exit with more whimper than bang. This book sees Tony struggle with the…

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Movie Review

    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Movie Review

    2007 Dir: Gore Verbinski Script: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliot Cast: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Chow Yun Fat, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Tom Holander, Stellan Skarsgård The Pirates trilogy’s middle instalment Dead Man’s Chest was a tedious, rambling continuation that lacked the original’s uncomplicated charm. Compared to At World’s End, however, 2…

  • Reign Over Me Movie Review

    Reign Over Me Movie Review

    2007 Dir: Mike Binder Script: Mike Binder Cast: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Mike Binder Happily married but isolated, dentist Alan Johnson (Cheadle) is suffering something of a mid-life crisis. But a chance encounter with former university roommate Charlie Fineman (Sandler), whose family were killed in the…

  • Vacancy Movie Review

    Vacancy Movie Review

    2007 Dir: Nimród Antal Script: Mark L. Smith Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley Bickering couple David and Amy Fox (Wilson, Beckinsale) spend the night in a rundown motel when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Discovering a stash of horror movies, the couple soon realise that the cassettes are a…