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Comics Review: The Week in Comics (31/08/11) – Flashpoint #5, Locke and Key: Clockworks #2, Secret Avengers #16, Angel & Faith #1
Reviewer: Saxon Bullock (aka @saxonb) FLASHPOINT issue 5 Writer: Geoff Johns ~ Artist: Andy Kubert ~ Publisher: DC Comics Hard as it is to believe, there were other comics than Justice League #1 published this week – like Flashpoint #5, the finale to the timeline-altering crossover miniseries which has never quite managed to be as interesting as [...]
Comic Review: Locke and Key – Keys to the Kingdom
Writer: Joe Hill ~ Artist: Gabriel Rodriguez ~ Colours: Jay Fotos ~ Publisher: IDW ~ Year: 2011 The Low-Down: The fourth collection of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s dark fantasy is the best yet – a pitch-perfect example of horror storytelling combined with inventive concepts, brilliant characterisation and yet more jaw-dropping artwork. What’s it About?: [...]
TV News: Comics No More (Wonder Woman and Locke and Key bite the dust…)
So, the much-kicked, much-derided Wonder Woman pilot has, in the end, not been picked up by NBC. In certain ways, this isn’t surprising – the network initially passed on the script, and it’s fairly clear that it only really got through to production because of the fact that it’s a well-known and recognised property, meaning [...]
TV News: Preludes and Nocturnes (Or, the Disappearing and Reappearing TV Adaptation of The Sandman)
Scarcely have I stopped talking about how happy I am that the mo-cap Yellow Submarine remake isn’t happening, when another project that I’m slightly concerned about starts hovering in the Schrodinger’s Box of Cancelled/Not Cancelled reality. In this case, it’s the potential TV adaptation of one of the most successful and well-known graphic novels of [...]
Comics Review – Locke and Key : Welcome to Lovecraft
Writer: Joe Hill ~ Art: Gabriel Rodriguez ~ Colours: Jay Fotos Publisher: IDW ~ Year: 2008 The Low-Down: The first volume of a major work of dark fantasy from the acclaimed author of Heart-Shaped Box, this is a gripping and superbly crafted comic book (currently being adapted for US television) that will have you genuinely [...]