Oliver Davis reviews Spawn #232… 32 STRAIGHT ISSUES WITH SAME ART TEAM, declares the book’s front cover. It reads like the “3 days without an accident” board in The Simpsons. They are Spawn’s creator/writer Todd MacFarlane and Szymon Kudranski on pencils and inking. Hooray for consistency. Having never read Spawn, and starting at part four […]

To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Victoria Welton with a review of 1984’s Superman spin-off – Supergirl… Opting to review Supergirl to celebrate the Superman Month for Flickering Myth, I hoped watching it this time […]

Andy Naylor reviews The Colonized #3… “The zombie horde is growing, the aliens and humans are outmanned (and out-alienned), and the citizens of Carbon Falls are beset from all sides. Which all pale before the looming explosive threat brought on from one of their own!“ The Colonzied follows the self-governed town of Carbon Falls and […]

Bill Willingham’s multi-Eisner Award-winning DC / Vertigo comic book series Fables is heading to the big screen courtesy of Harry Potter producer David Heyman and his production company Heyday Films, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Fables centres on a selection of fairy tale characters who are exiled from their homeland, forcing them to live in […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #3… “Death’s reign of terror over THOSE WHO RULE continues, as the forces of the END TIMES continue to work to bring about the Apocalypse. It’s the END OF THE WORLD: Someone dies, someone lives, and someone falls in love.” WHO IS THIS WOMAN, THE ONE THAT CONQUERED DEATH? […]

Say it isn’t so! After nabbing the role from Dougray Scott (picking Mission: Impossible II must have seemed the right idea at the time), and so far starring as Wolverine six times. could Hugh Jackman be thinking about life without chicken breast and Adamantium? “I wasn’t even sure after the first [stand-alone] film if I would […]

To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Tom Jolliffe with a review of 1983’s Superman III… As a kid growing up in the 80s, the Christopher Reeve Superman films were firm favourites. In my younger days […]

With all the news for Star Wars: Episode: VII falling fairly quiet as of late (apart from getting a director of course), it’s nice to see some stories about the original trilogy coming into our news desk. During An Evening with Al Pacino this last weekend in London, the actor talked about how the role […]

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, 2013. Directed by Shane Meadows. Starring Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren. SYNOPSIS: Documentary detailing the reunion of seminal Manchester rock band, The Stone Roses. At first, a documentary about The Stone Roses doesn’t seem to mesh with Shane Meadows’ recent run of autobiographical […]

Luke Owen looks at Transformers: Robots in Disguise #18 – the prelude to Dark Cybertron… SURVIVOR’S GUILT! After the shattering events of the past two issues, we can’t tell you who’s alive and who’s dead. But we will hint that one CYBERTRONIAN has to reconsider her worldview-while she comes face-to-face with some old enemies. We […]