Month: February 2009

  • Watchmen Viral Teaser Trailers Collected in 80s Retro Player

    Unless, like me, you plan to spend the next 10 days in a makeshift stasis pod constructed from a bathtub, frozen peas and a sheet of tinted Perspex, you’re probably climbing the walls for a way to pass the time until March 6th. Yes, March 6th is the day we finally get to see Zack…

  • Silver Surfer: Requiem Review

    Silver Surfer: Requiem Review

    2008, Marvel Knights Writer: J. Michael Straczynski Artist: Esad Ribic Could there be a more hippyish comic book creation than the Silver Surfer? A metallic dude who surfs the cosmos, refusing to cover his androgynous shame lest it cramp his streamline style. The Fabulous Freak Brothers have nothing on Norrin Radd. While popular culture has…

  • Justice League: The New Frontier DVD Review

    Justice League: The New Frontier DVD Review

    2008, Warner Bros. Director: Dave Bullock Written by: Stan Berkowitz, Darwyn Cooke Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Jeremy Sisto, Lucy Lawless, Neil Patrick Harris, David Boreanaz, Phil Morris, Miguel Ferrer, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick While DC’s first direct-to-video animated film Superman: Doomsday wasn’t disastrous, for the sake of brevity it abandoned all but a few key features…

  • City of Glass Graphic Novel Review

    City of Glass Graphic Novel Review

    1994 Adapted by David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik from the novella by Paul Auster Widowed poet Daniel Quinn lives in isolation, writing noirish detective fiction under the pseudonym William Wilson. When he receives a phone call from someone mistaking him for real life detective Paul Auster – yes, the author of the novel from which…

  • Young Bond: Silverfin Graphic Novel Review

    Young Bond: Silverfin Graphic Novel Review

    2008 Written by: Charlie Higson Art by: Kev Walker And so it is that Young James Bond, not to be confused with nephew James Bond Jr., follows in the miniature shoes of Young Sherlock Holmes and, er… the Muppet Babies by featuring in a series of children‘s stories detailing his pre-MI6 years at Eton. After…

  • Palestine by Joe Sacco Review

    Palestine by Joe Sacco Review

    Written and illustrated by: Joe Sacco Between 1991 and 1992, journalist Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestine, a work of graphic non-fiction, chronicles his interviews with those persecuted under Israel’s first Intifada. Palestine emphasises the plight of the Palestinians on an individual scale, something that…

  • Yet Another Watchmen Teaser – The Keene Act & You

    Continuing a viral campaign that looks to outdo even The Dark Knight, here’s another video to wet thine appetite. This time it’s a Government PSA on behalf of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, informing us all about the Keene Act. It’s a great clip, which not only acts as nifty 70s take on 50s…

  • The Dark Knight Strikes Again TPB Review

    The Dark Knight Strikes Again TPB Review

    2001, DC Comics Story, Art: Frank Miller Colours: Lynn Varley Like Star Wars prequels and the fourth Indiana Jones, Frank Miller’s follow-up to his seminal The Dark Knight Returns was never going to live up to over 15 years of expectation. When the prestige format miniseries was announced around 2000, eager anticipation soon turned to…