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Comic Book Review – Star Trek/Green Lantern #5

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek/Green Lantern #5… The galactic civil war reaches a critical point as the Yellow Lantern Klingons, Orange Lantern Romulans, and Red Lantern Gorn fight for supremacy, with Hal Jordan, James T. Kirk, and the crew of the Enterprise caught in the middle! It’s a dark night for the Federation… and the arrival […]

Retro Video Game Review – Pac-Man on the NES

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Villordsutch reviews Pac-Man on the NES… Pac-Man is an all-time classic! Originally released upon the Japanese arcades in May 1980 from video game designer Toru Iwatani, this Namco game then went over to America and flew under the Midway flag come December 1980.  As any Scott Pilgrim fan will tell you, our yellow hero went […]

Interview – Pat Mills talks Dan Dare and his role in bringing him to 2000AD

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Villordsutch talks to Pat Mills about his role in bringing Dan Dare to 2000AD… Pat Mills could safely wear a well-earned badge upon his chest that reads, “You’re Welcome!”.  He has been called in the past, “The Grandfather of British Comics”, known for creating 2000AD, having a hand in the genesis of Judge Dredd, along […]

Don Bluth brings the Dragon’s Lair movie to Kickstarter

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For those of us that haunted the Arcade Rooms of the 1980’s there was one particular arcade machine that stood-out amongst the rest due to it unbelievable animation and graphics, that game was Dragon’s Lair by the great animator Don Bluth.  Unlike a normal arcade machine which relied computer generated images, Dragon’s Lair was the […]

Comic Book Review – Dan Dare – The 2000 AD Years – Vol.1

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Villordsutch Reviews Dan Dare – The 2000AD Years – Vol.1… Dan Dare is a British icon. He was created by Frank Hampson in 1950, and first appeared in the Eagle comic where he was an instant hit with the British public. Almost a decade after the original series had ended, Dan Dare was resurrected in the […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 3 Review – ‘Give and Take’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf XI Episode 3 – Give and Take… After the brilliant ‘Samsara‘ hopes are high that the rest of the Red Dwarf XI, including next week’s episode ‘Give and Take’, will follow suit.  Red Dwarf has already returned to form and it was truly brilliant last night as it sang back to classic Dwarf fantastically well, […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Waypoint #1

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Waypoint #1… To celebrate 50 years of STAR TREK, IDW Publishing, under license by CBS Consumer Products, will boldly launch a new series in September which honors the legacy of the various Starfleet crews which have inhabited the Star Trek universe over the past five decades. With Star Trek ongoing now […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #6 – R-Type

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After reaching the heady heights – in numerous landscapes – then proclaiming yourself The Sentinel, our calling in the Your Sinclair Top 100 now sees us return to the inky black.  Number Six from Electric Dreams Software sees us going nose-to-nose against Bydo, as we take control of R-Type. R-Type began its life in the […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek #50

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #50… Don’t miss this special anniversary issue that kicks off an epic new 3-part adventure! For the first time, the crew of the new movie franchise will meet its evil Mirror counterpart! It’s Enterprise vs. Enterprise, Federation vs. the Terran Empire, with the fate of two universes at stake! We’ve hit […]