The Legend of Batman Volume 3 Born to Kill
The Legend of Batman Volume 3 Born to Kill Admittedly, with a title like that one, I should have known better than to expect something uplifting or life-affirming. OK, that I could live without, but how about entertaining? A bit of that, maybe? Not a chance. Born to Kill is simply unremitting ugliness. It is a near-enough unredeemed black and sickening vision of life that makes you want to scrub yourself clean after...
Batman : Zero Year
Batman: Zero Year Legend of Batman is another set of collections from Eaglemoss, the quality of which I raved about last year when the company launched its series of Star Trek graphic novels. And this looks to be every single bit as good, if the initial two volumes here are anything to go by. Mind you, it is probably necessary to be a complete bat- fanatic if the intention is to collect all of the dozens of volumes. I’m...
The Commuter (2017)
Blood on the Tracks: The Commuter (2017) It’s not a super hero movie and Liam Neeson isn’t playing one – as such. Still, as Michael MacCauley, he does get to run faster than a speeding locomotive; dodge bullets; and leap mighty rail tracks in a single bound. And it all happens right here in his latest comedy, The Commuter. What’s that you say? It’s meant to be a thriller? Well, that’s OK too; I can get into that. It...
The Post (2017)
Serving the Governed, Not the Governors: The Post (2017) Best be warned: if you are suffering from even the mildest form of schizophrenia, then a viewing of Steven Spielberg’s The Post is very likely to trigger an attack. Because it’s two films. [Triggering: another one of those whining, nonsensical concepts for a whining, nonsensical age; and yet it seems strangely appropriate here.] Having had a surfeit of superhero...
Justin Cronin’s The Passage
Regions of Blackness: Justin Cronin’s The Passage Being the busy season that was in it – you know, when you attempt to be vaguely sociable whilst making a reasonable go at a happy face – I had only read a few short stories and a couple of comic books over the Christmas and New Year period. So when the rather stunning cover photograph on the paperback edition of Justin Cronin’s The Passage caught my eye, I paused. Paused...
Anno Dracula 1899 And Other Stories
Anno Dracula 1899 And Other Stories Buried deep within this grab-bag of odds-and-ends from the wonderfully eccentric Mr. Newman is a story so exquisitely beautiful that it is worth buying this collection for alone. But I’ll return to that later because, sadly, Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories is in most other ways a bit of a con. I was under the impression that it was a volume of uncollected tales that were set in the Anno...
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