Pacific Rim is a hugely enjoyable (if flawed) film which does a better job than Michael Bay of putting giant robots on the big screen, while at the same time paying homage to Japanese monster movies and manga/anime series like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Although dominated by the awesome spectacle of towering machine men waging war […]
As it approached the end of its most recent season, HBO’s Game of Thrones began to attract more vociferous criticism for its lack of non-white actors. The series’ main characters are overwhelmingly presented as pale-skinned, a casting choice which has often led to accusations of orientalism, and one which has also characterised (to varying degrees) […]
After the explosive and emotional climax of the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, creators Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill might have been expected to take a break from the elaborate work of crossover fiction they’ve been weaving for the last fourteen years. But it seems that continuing to explore the storytelling possibilities […]
The second collected volume of Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated is due be released in May, and will also rather confusingly be titled “Volume 1”. The reason for this sequential anomaly is DC’s new shift in company-wide continuity, dubbed “The New 52”. As far as the company is concerned, all series set in the main DC […]
American Fantasy author Brent Weeks will be appearing at Waterstone’s Edinburgh West End on Tuesday 2nd October at 6pm, to read from and discuss, and of course sign copies of, his new book, The Blinding Knife. The Blinding Knife is the second book in the Lightbringer series, following on from 2011’s The Black Prism, featuring […]
WyrmeWeald: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Doubleday, HB, £14.99 – OUT NOW) The second book in this trilogy, and the follow-up to 2010’s WyrmeWeald: Returner’s Wealth, Bloodhoney is, in short, an astounding achievement. When you consider that the market for this series is the lucrative Young Adult / Teen sector, it is […]