Next up in this comics-wedding banquet the two froth audibly in a rambling appreciation of the astounding Prophet no.26 from Brandon Graham, talk up the Taliastic Batman Inc from Sir Grant, do aural ...

Every day this week I will be posting about Colin Baker’s first season as the Doctor, and trying to examine what it is that made it so great. After this introductory post, I shall be looking at each ...

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Who should we get to play “Bloke standing behind Kate O’Mara”? I know! Ian McKellen! I see no reason why he would not do this.

What can you tell us about the similarities between comics and poetry? There’s a quote in Alan Moore’s Writing For Comics where he discusses comics that try to mimic film techniques that has always ...

But I also find the nature of working with overlays and spot colours like this has had an impact on the way I colour more generally and the way I make colour palettes. For instance, Suzanne’s colours ...

Start with the mask: you’ve got dehumanisation and the death of identity. This guy’s face isn’t just a black skull, these days it’s a black skull with red eyes – that’s demonic evil straight outta the ...

This week we explore the scorched desert of the unreal that is episode 8 of Mark Frost and David Lynchs’s Twin Peaks: The Return. Got a light? Expect nuclear magic, atomic paranoia, cosmic trauma and ...

Mark: What a fantastic finale that was. A good riposte to the claim last year that Mad Men’s storytelling jumped the shark, becoming more reliant on cheap shock value because Weiner had run out of ...

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It’s called Meta4orce, and you can watch the whole lot here (possibly. I gather some geographical limitations may apply to BBC stuff.) The intro graphics and that are nice, but the animation’s kind of ...

THIS IS HOW IT’S GOING TO WORK. Plenty blather in recent weeks about the reactionary impulses at work in DC’s decision to get rid of all its Bronze (I call it ‘Early Dark’ but ‘whatever, Steve Trevor’ ...