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Book Review: Crecy

“Cunt.”
There. I said it. If it bothers you, by all means stay away from Warren Ellis’ highly entertaining graphic novel Crecy.
Best known for the sci-fi noir comic Transmetropolitain, this time Ellis takes you on a first hand journey through England’s 1346 invasion of France. The book is named after the battle (named after the town) [...]

Book Review: Stephen King’s Blaze

If you’ve read the introduction to the out of print omnibus The Bachman Books you’ll know that the majority of the novels Stephen King published under the nom de plume Richard Bachman were what he calls “trunk books”. That is, early efforts that he couldn’t get published for one reason or another. The first four [...]

8 Graphic Novels You Might Not Know (and Should)

When I was a kid they were called comic books and I was forbidden to read them. They fostered “lazy reading habits” according to my mom and were “a waste of time and money” as far as my dad was concerned. To be fair, my parents were mostly right. Comic art was merely serviceable, if [...]

Cloverfield: It’s not Godzilla, Dude

Cloverfield, produced by the creator of Alias and Lost, J.J. Abrams, doesn’t exactly reinvent the monster movie, but it certainly gives it a shiny new spin. Crossing Godzilla with Aliens by way of The Blair Witch Project, the movie follows a group of ordinary New Yorkers as the struggle to live through an attack on [...]

Film Review: I Am Legend

Hollywood loves a plague. The basic idea of a disease of one sort or another wiping out the human race has been done and re-done so many times it’s hard to keep track of the original use of the concept.
If I were to bet on it though, my money would be on the 1964 Vincent [...]

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