Thank you, Jonathan Hickman, for giving me the Fantastic Four back. In simpler times I watched the cartoon on TV, and this was before DVD and the Internet, so it took a while to piece the story together, but I Read more…
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updates, plain and simple
I suppose that recognising something of yourself in a character is nothing new … In fact I know it\’s not, and the degree to which the writer / artist pulls you into the heart of that magic can be the Read more…

I have been following Jason Howard only since he hooked up with Warren Ellis for Scatterlands, and I have loved what I have seen of Trees. I started following him on twitter and found out about Super Dinosaur And after Read more…
Those lovely people at Image Comics made Warren Ellis\’ Trees Issue 1 free to download for a few days. For me a new Warren Ellis comic is something to celebrate. Anything by Jason Howard is likewise worth raising a glass Read more…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rae7_O_6EtU&w=560&h=315] The rule is – if Terry Gilliam wants to make a film, let him, and give him as much money as he needs. That is the rule. Do not question it.
Businessmen are kind of interesting,, but there\’s interesting and there\’s interesting. Guy\’s like Steve Jobs and David Geffen, who don\’t just want to make money but also have a real interest in popular culture, and because of that passion do Read more…
All is forgiven Shia LaBeouf. I loved this movie. Was it perfect? No. Did it hit me right and take me where I needed to go? It surely did. Its music spoke to me, and Shia\’s performance spoke to me. Read more…
This looked pretty interesting when I saw it first talked about, but the interim between seeing a trailer and seeing the cover of the DVD again, I had pretty much forgotten what it was about. I was ready to see Read more…
I read some reviews of the movie that were bad, and the reasons that were given were things that fell away for me as I watched the movie. The accuracy of the technology or the science at play? Sure, verisimilitude Read more…
How I wanted this to be a great film; how I wanted it to steal back some of the ground that the second movie lost for the sequel; how I wish that I could report that it succeeded. But it Read more…