(opens in new tab) Yes, Datak Tarr is one heck of a slum lord. He’s a big fish in a rather small pond, and he likes it that way. Who wouldn’t? After all, Datak has a lot of power in Defiance. But Datak has a blind spot, and it shares …
Read More »BLOG Exclusive? How About A San Diego Inclusive For A Change?
(opens in new tab) Last week was an interesting week for leaked footage. Trailers for both Guardians Of The Galaxy and X-Men: Days Of Future Past hit the internet; both were met with huge amounts of positive response; both were immediately yanked, because they were exclusives shown at the San …
Read More »BLOG Year One Cures A Text Dread For Dredd
This is my 100th blog on the SFX website. In my first blog I wrote about my two biggest sci-fi loves: 2000AD ’s Judge Dredd and Star Wars . So it seems only fitting that this centenary blog should be about one of those subjects (but with a guest cameo …
Read More »BLOG Hot Pick: The Doubleclicks “Nothing To Prove”
The Doubleclicks are one of my favourite bands. Sisters Angela and Aubrey Webber play the cello and the ukulele and write clever, funny, beautiful songs about Dungeons & Dragons , Mr Darcy, Velociraptors and geek culture. I was lucky enough to see them at W00tstock in San Diego last year …
Read More »BLOG Professor Elemental Interview
Professor Elemental is a titan of a man, striding heroically across the boundaries of science, science fiction, music and comedy with a jaunty tune being emitted from his Musical Trousers ( that is a euphemism, right? – ed ). The Professor, who rose to prominence a little while back with …
Read More »BLOG Six-Gun Gorilla COMIC REVIEW
Blue-3425 is going to die. He’s okay with it too, because he’s signed on to be a Holehead. The Holeheads are expendable troops fitted with psychic tumours that transmit everything they see back to Earth. In return for this brave action, and, of course, their deaths, any surviving members will …
Read More »BLOG Is That A Fox In Your Pocket?
The fiction small press, especially, is all a bit, “It was the worst of times, it was the best of times,” at the moment. It’s the worst of times because the large publishers are amalgamating, Amazon is in the processing assimilating a good chunk of the industry and it’s very …
Read More »BLOG The Ministry Initiative
The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences are the Queen’s finest agents. Based in London, beneath the Thames, the Ministry is tasked with protecting the Empire from the paranormal, the occult and the countless secret societies bent on bringing down the United Kingdom. Its agents are the best, brightest and oddest in …
Read More »BLOG The Zenith Of Brit Comics To Return
(opens in new tab) British superhero comics have two kings beneath the hill. Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman produced a legendary run on Miracleman which is exactly as stunning as most people who’ve read it say it is. Unfortunately it’s also mired in such an incredibly complex, and crushingly boring, …
Read More »BLOG Geeky Conversations With My Six Year Old Daughter by Stacey Whittle, Aged 35
Doctor Who Tala: “How come all the Miss Marbles we watch have different Miss Marbles?” Me: “Well, Miss Marple is a Time Lord and so she regenerates. She is almost exactly like Doctor Who because they both like solving puzzles and knitting. Also she has two hearts.” Tala: “Cybermen say …
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