Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD Prog #1893… Borag thungg, Earthlets! This week’s Prog has a senile pensioner, blue vampires, one of those deepwater fish with a bulb for a quiff and dog-faced humanoid zombies. A standard night out in Maidstone, then. The first of those – the senile pensioner – is Mrs Gunderson, currently hosting one […]

Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD Prog #1894… Borag thungg, Earthlets! This week’s Prog has space explorers, baby-killing gods and blue zombies. Colour-wise, that is; they don’t have the capacity to feel sadness. Unfortunately, it’s a dip in overall quality for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic from the last few months, but there’s still fun to be had. […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #15… “THE GREAT BEAST” The son of Xiaolain and Death faces the Horsemen and becomes everything that the Message foretold. Apocalypse: Year One concludes with EAST OF WEST #15.” And just when you thought an epic battle was about to be waged between Texas and The Endless Nation…East of […]

Oliver Davis reviews the tenth episode of Game of Thrones Season Four…. The Children. Directed by Alex Graves. Written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.   Jon After his episode-length edition last week, Season 4’s climactic installment opened with Jon Snow (Kit Harington), and followed on from where he was last left: venturing beyond […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #13… “‘BUSILLIS’ Our first good look inside the Lair. The Son of Death and Xiaolain makes his move. The beast roams free in EAST OF WEST #13.” Last month’s issue was a frustrating read. Not only was it too wordy and static, and lacked the book’s most interesting characters, […]

Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD’s Prog #1889… Borag thungg, Earthlets! This week’s Prog has drugged-up boogeymen, sensitive reptilian aliens, clockwork universes and magical words! But first – Amazon. Or, at least, an Amazon parody in the returning Sinister Dexter. The fictional company is called Congo. Subtlety, be damned. New artist Jake Lynch’s black and white pencils […]

Bad Grandpa .5, 2014. Directed by Jeff Tremaine. Starring Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Jeff Tremaine and Catherine Keener. SYNOPSIS: A behind-the-scenes documentary on Bad Grandpa with over 40-minutes of never-before-seen footage. Ever heard of a .5 movie release? I certainly hadn’t. It’s basically a “glorified behind-the-scenes doc with unseen footage,” my understandably frustrated Flickering Myth […]

Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD’s Prog #1892… Borag thungg, Earthlets! This week’s Prog has diner-based showdowns, Albert Einstein-lookalikes, many trolls a’slayed and that niche, strange Eastern religion called Christianity. But first, we start at the beginning. Even more at the beginning than usual – the cover. What a lovely display by Judge Dredd artist Colin MacNeil. […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #12… “THE NIGHT BEFORE” A last ditch effort is undertaken to avoid a war between the nations by the most unlikely person on the planet. The remains of the Chosen reassemble.” Everything in East of West is ‘The’ something; THE Four Horsemen, THE Message, THE Meatball Marinara Footlong with […]

Oliver Davis reviews Prophet #44… “An Empire Red-Mother is sent to investigate a fallen Prophet arc.” Issue 44 marks the antepenultimate (great word) episode of Brandon Graham’s Prophet revival, with The War in Space climaxing next month. The story will continue in a miniseries run, but still – for a comic of this immense beauty […]