Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… David Mitchell writes for The Guardian about Star Wars and the Disney take-over. I know, I know. Old news really – but more interestingly, Mitchell compares the take over with the future of the franchise becoming more akin to the 50-year long stretch of 007 before highlighting how […]

Luke Owen on the latest issue of Ghostbusters… I don’t know about you, but I found the ‘Haunted America’ issues to be quite tedious and slow. So this latest story arc with the Ghost Smashers is a welcome change of pace. I’ve always enjoyed Ghostbusters comics that remind me of the brilliance of The Real […]

Luke Owen on the latest issue of Godzilla… While IDW’s other Godzilla series – The Half Century War – continues to amass praise from fans and critics alike, the regular on-going series is still going strong even if it can be fairly hit and miss. Issue #5 was one of those miss entries. While the […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the third episode of The Walking Dead season three…I finished Episode 2’s review with: “could an unexpected event take place in episode 3? I’d count on it.” Episode 3 of The Walking Dead verified my idea that more of the unexpected was it on its way. I never imagined that the show […]

Now that Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga has come to an end with the release of The Dark Knight Rises this past July, the future of Warner Bros.’ stable of DC Comics properties looks a little uncertain. Next year, Nolan, screenwriter David S. Goyer and director Zack Snyder will reboot Superman with the hotly-anticipated Man of […]

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) is to write and direct an adaptation of the World War II video game series Castle Wolfenstein. According to Deadline, the project is envisioned as “in the vein of Captain America and Inglourious Basterds [and is] about a young U.S. Army Captain and a British Special […]

October 30th, 2012 will be a day long remembered for Star Wars fans, with The Walt Disney Company purchasing Lucasfilm for $4 billion, and announcing plans to continue the epic space opera with Star Wars Episode VII – the first instalment of a new trilogy set to begin in 2015. Naturally, there’s been an absolute […]

Well, here’s a shock… despite reports last month that Sony Pictures Entertainment had given director Ivan Reitman the green light to shoot Ghostbusters III next summer, The Hollywood Reporter has now revealed that “any decision on Ghostbusters III, the long, long-gestating sequel, has been postponed until the end of March [2013] — this after Men […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest 2000 AD prog…A lot gets revealed and explained in Prog 1810, as well as setting up the explosive next act of the Mega-City One cross-over The Cold Deck. Judge Dredd: The Cold Deck, part fiveScript: Al Ewing, Art: Henry FlintThings take a dramatic step forward as Judge Dredd, after having […]

Luke Owen on the possibilities for Star Wars and other Lucas-related properties following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm… Last night while watching Arsenal getting battered three-nil by Reading, I went on to Twitter to gloat that my hometown team were beating a team that should be playing better (they eventually went on to lose in a […]