They don’t seem to be making much of a fuss about it, but this year is in fact the 30th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. That’s 30 years of bringing some of the world’s best writers to Scotland’s capital, a city awash with festivities during the summer months. Though they don’t shout as […]
This month sees the entirety of Grant Morrison’s classic run on Animal Man republished in a hardcover omnibus edition, so what better time to revisit this groundbreaking piece of superhero fiction, and remember just why it came to be regarded as a cult classic. Running from 1988 to 1990, Grant Morrison’s renovation of the forgotten, […]
The 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival starts in 4 days’ time (Geekzine coverage will begin shortly), and one of the themes of this year’s programme is ‘Stripped‘, a celebration of graphic novels (or comics, as they used to be called). It might seem unusual, given the traditional snobbery of the literary establishment, for comic books […]
The Vengeance Path is an epic tale of war, politics and (of course) revenge that was released as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.co.uk at the beginning of July, by Edinburgh-based e-publisher Thistle In The Kiss. Since then it has been a regular presence in the Kindle top 100 Steampunk Bestseller list. Blending high fantasy with […]
Hannah takes a look at renowned author Joanne Harris’ first foray into the fantasy genre…. Now, I’m not much of a fantasy/sci-fi reader, but having read several of Joanne Harris’ other novels (Chocolat etc), I was curious to see how she handled a different genre, and if she could persuade me to give it a […]
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 […]