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- Uncanny X-men #6 = ★★★✩✩ - Greg Land draws this issue well. X-men Vs. a sort of Iron Man-type. 4 hours ago
- JLI #6 = ★★✩✩✩ - Dull, predictable & uninteresting. Art got considerably worse as issue went on. I'm dropping this title! 5 hours ago
Batman: Year One Review
Batman: Year One is the latest in the DC original animations adapted from successful comics. Based on the 1986 four-issue mini-series it’s, perhaps, the definitive modern Batman origin story and, tonally, created the world of ...
Post-modernism at the V&A
It was a risk going to this exhibition. One: it was a Saturday afternoon and, chances were, that it would be sold out. Two: it was about “post-modernism” – an unstable, disparate movement (for want ...
What are the 1970s arcade games still worth playing?
Arcade-style video games first arrived at the start of the 1970s the installation of Galaxy Game, an implementation of the earlier PDP-1 Spacewar! game from the early 60s, at Stanford University. Over the next 10 ...
Superman: The Man of Steel
There’s some chatter about Zack Snyder’s continuation as director of the new Superman movie following poor reviews of his latest movie, Sucker Punch. I haven’t seen Sucker Punch yet but, as much as I admire ...
Anti-cuts Demonstration
We took part in the TUC-organised demonstration against the government’s cuts to public services today. I have to say that I was amazed by the sheer number of demonstrators who turned up. The media have ...
Sketch
Narcissism. Alice drew this sketch of me while I was playing a game. To me it looks vaguely Wyndham Lewis but leaves me with the impression that my face is developing quite hamster-like features around ...
Podcast
The third episode of my livid_podcast is now available either from my podcast site or you can directly subscribe from iTunes. More than anything, I’m using the podcast as a record of reading, listening and ...
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