Top ten or five or whatever lists are strange things as they only represent the personal preference of the one making the list. So there will be no top list here, but […]
Favourites of the Year 2013 – Television
Still Swingin’ – Lord of the Jungle Volume 1 and 2
Dynamite’s Lord of the Jungle sees Edgar Rice Burroughs’ hero explored through his familiar origin story. For those that are not familiar, Tarzan’s parents are stranded on an island and are soon […]
Otherworldly Vampires – Not of This Earth (1957)
The film opens and gets right into the action as a man attacks a girl and knocks her unconscious without even touching her. As she is on the ground, he drains some […]
Back in Fighting Form – The Shadow Volume 1: The Fire of Creation
In the first volume of The Shadow ongoing comic from Dynamite, we of course get to know who The Shadow is and what he does. For those that do not, The Shadow […]
War Comes to the Deep – Fathom Volume 2 + Cannon Hawke
As Fathom moves into volume two, the series takes a turn by covering a subject both topical when it was published and one that splits the focus away from its main attraction. […]
Mad Scientist or Mad Scientist – The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
In a slightly different turn, Boris Karloff stars as the congenial mad scientist, or perhaps bumbling would be a little more apt. He calls to mind The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis, […]
Tragedy and Fury – Miss Fury Volume 1: Anger is An Energy
The book starts out with our anti-heroine falling into a machine and thrust forward into 2013 from 1943. Jumping forward seventy years out of your time and comfort zone must be a […]
Bad Guys and Good Guys – Fort Bowie (1958)
The Native Americans come to talk to the soldiers under a white flag and what happens? The soldiers open fire and kill most of them. The major it seems thinks the Indian […]
Two Different Tonics – Strange Killings: Strong Medicine and Necromancer
The next two chapters in the ongoing tribulations of Ellis and Wolfer’s combat magician, William Gravel are good, with one far better than the other. Strong Medicine has our hero looking into […]
Funny How Things Turn Up – Captain America: Living Legend #1-4
Living Legend is a new four issue miniseries from Marvel about Captain America having to deal with shades of his past come back to plague him in present day. The series features […]
The Telltale Mind 