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The Old Dark House

Ok. I have something of a confession to make. I love old, dark house movies. Baronial mansions fog bound on lonely moors or in swamps, trapdoors, hidden passages in the library, sinister butlers, clocks that strike thirteen, Bob Hope, bogus policemen, families with dark secrets, disappearing bodies, clawed hands coming out of the paneling, cats, … Read more

Into the Night

Time to return to one of the greatest works in literature written. Latter Days is the latest volume in the saga of Cerebus (number 15, if you’re interested) and sees Sim returning to the comedic stance of earlier stories.After the somewhat tortuous preceding volumes (Form and Void, Going Home), this is a welcome relief. Whilst … Read more

Peace, Man

WAR (Ughh!! Good God y’all)!!! What is it good for? Absolutely………….., well quite a lot actually. Getting rid of stroppy dictators, establishing a parliamentary democracy, iconic leather images, giving the rest of the world a whipping boy in the French and we won’t even go into what the Romans ever did for us.Ok, I’m being … Read more

Life, the Universe and Everything

The soap opera is a long established tradition both in writing, on the small screen and on radio. Its serialistic style and format give writers the opportunity to introduce characters that will take them from the cradle to the grave, put them through various trials and tribulations, play with topical situations and in some rare … Read more

Cerebus

Someone has been asking about Cerebus on another thread and I did say that I was going to talk about it more when it finally ends around March 2004. But I’ll do it now and go on record to say that this is one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. That it has … Read more

Shillings and Pence

Just a few quick reviews this week as after Collectormania 4 and being on holiday, I need to relax. Fagin the Jew is the latest graphic from the current Grand Master of the comic-book world, Will Eisner. Meant to be a re-telling of Oliver Twist, Eisner found himself more interested in Fagin and the story … Read more

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