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reviews
In Review: Black Widow
Tim Robins brings us the intel on the all-out new MCU film Black Widow, despite being pixel-bombed…
Reinventing Comic Characters: The European Approach
Comic characters are being adapted for a modern audience across the Channel. Peter Duncan takes a look…
In Review: Edward Ross’s Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming
This new graphic novel takes a very positive but thoughtful look at gaming…
Who Guards the Guardian’s Graphic Novels?
Sean Michael Wilson feels there’s something lacking in The Guardians’s graphic novel coverage…
In Review: Sensible Footwear – A Girl’s Guide
By Kate Charlesworth Myriad Editions Out: 25 July 2019 Now this, my friends, has been one of the Brit comics works on my Must Read Radar for 2019; I know Kate Charlesworth has been working on it for a long… Read More ›
In Review: “Bald” by John Tucker
“My scalp was so smooth, I fell clean out of my mother while she did the weekly shopping!” The Story: Essentially this is the story of one man and his male patterned baldness. This is no ordinary baldness and the… Read More ›
In Review: The Skylab Haynes Owners Workshop Manual
Since the first ‘proper’ Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, for the Austin Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite, was published in 1966, the publisher has covered the innards of many a vehicle – both factual and fictional, some of the covered here on downthetubes…. Read More ›
Forgotten Books in Review: Shadows in the Sun by Chad Oliver
By Chad Oliver SF Novel First Published: 1954 | Find it on amazon.co.uk The Book: Anthropologist Paul Ellery discovers that the small Texas town of Jefferson Springs is actually an imitation of small-town America created by the aliens who now… Read More ›
In Review: Grey Area Our Town by Tim Bird
By Tim Bird Published by Avery Hill Publishing ISBN 9781910395240 Published on 1st October 2016 32 pages, full colour, 210x297mm Reviewed by Emily Owen The Story: Our Town is Tim Bird’s follow-up to From the City to the Sea, which… Read More ›