In the first of a new series here at Flickering Myth looking at classic comic book story arcs, Jessie Robertson explores ‘The Night Gwen Stacy Died’… Issues: The Amazing Spider-Man #121-122 (June-July 1973) Writer: Gerry Conway Pencil Art: Gil Kane Inking: John Romita Sr/ Tony Mortallero “She was young, she was beautiful, she was innocent […]

The Flickering Myth writing staff weigh in with their thoughts on Marvel’s change to Thor… It was announced yesterday that Thor would be getting quite the make-over and a female will be taking over the mantle of The God of Thunder. As tweeted yesterday by Jason Aaron, this is not “She-Thor” or “Lady-Thor”, this is […]

Luke Graham reviews 2000AD’s Prog #1890… Borag thungg, Earthlets! Prog 1890 of 2000AD is packed to the gills with thrills and spills, but which strip delivers the most? Speaking of deliveries, in part two of Sinister Dexter, Finnigan Sinister has to escape from delivery company Congo after his cover is blown. Swiftly dispatchingfive security guards […]

Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Flesh and Stone… “The Six Doctors.” When a Starfleet medical conference is crashed by a deadly metamorphic virus, Doctors Beverly Crusher, Julian Bashir and Katherine Pulaski have to race against time…to find a cure.  The answers lie in the distant past, deep within the files of Dr. Leonard McCoy! All of Star […]

It’s been two years since Seth MacFarlane’s Ted hit the screen and his latest A Million Ways to Die in the West has been and gone, but it looks like the writer and director – along with Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital – are being sued for copyright infringement. The suit was filed by Bengal […]

For the fourth time in it’s box office run, Guardians of the Galaxy was again a-top the US box office in the slowest weekend for two years, Box Office Mojo reports. The Top 12 earned an estimated $51.9 million, which if confirmed with official figures, would make this past weekend the worst for over two years. […]

It looks like Christian Bale has set his sights on a potential action/crime franchise, as Variety reports that the Academy Award winner is in talks to play Travis McGee in an adaptation of the 1964 John D. MacDonald novel, The Deep Blue Good-By. MacDonald wrote 21 novels starring the McGee character over a twenty year period, […]

Villordsutch reviews Judge Dredd Megazine #350… Greetings to all you Perps out there and welcome to a rather big milestone of a comic as we hit the 350th issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine.  Who would have thought back in 1990 that in the year 2014 you’d be sat here, slightly wider, getting your fix […]

Disney’s live-action remake of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book has been taking shape for months now under Iron Man and Chef director Jon Favreau, and has now cast its most important role. According to THR, 10 year-old newcomer Neel Sethi will play Mowgli, the orphan human boy raised by wolves. Interestingly, Mowgli is one of the last prominent roles […]

The recently-announced Power Rangers film reboot has found its creative team, as The Hollywood Reporter reveals that X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz will pen the screenplay, while Star Trek and The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s Roberto Orci is also on board as executive producer. Orci will produce the film without his long-standing creative partner Alex Kurtzman, under his Sneaky […]