Tag: science fiction
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Proxies of Fate by Matthew Moses Review
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in Book ReviewsProxies of Fate marks the first time I’ve been asked to review a purely prose novel, yet while Proxies isn’t a comic as such it’s ostensibly a classic comic book adventure under a literary veil, with equal quantities of 50s sci-fi thrown in for good measure. When an invasion by the Krush, a sadistic reptilian…
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Avatar Movie Review
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2009 Director: James Cameron Script: James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver In 1986, James Cameron gave us Aliens, a movie which climaxed with Sigourney Weaver going head to head with a queen Xenomorph in a power lifter – despite the acid-spitting extra-terrestrial’s superior design it was…
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Citizen Rex #1 Comic Book Review
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Dark Horse Story and art: Mario & Gilbert Hernandez Struggling for a reasonable way to begin this review, I realised that there’s really no point in analysing or discussing Citizen Rex, the new series by two of the three Hernandez siblings. From Love and Rockets to their work on Mister X, the Brothers Hernandez have…
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Section 8 Multiplayer Hands-On Preview
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in NewsDon the big metal boots of a superhero space marine in Timegate’s upcoming sci-fi shooter.
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Moon Movie Review
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Let’s get this out of the way first: Moon director Duncan Jones is David Bowie’s son, formally named Zowie Bowie. Had his debut feature Moon been anything less than brilliant, the press would have pounced on his celebrity ancestry with acidic glee. Fortunately, this elegantly traditional slice of science fiction is a heartfelt movie that…
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Aliens #2 Comic Book Review
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Dark Horse Writer: John Arcudi Pencils: Zach Howard, Gabriel Andrade Inks: Mark Irwin, Marcelo Mueller, Zach Howard Colours: Wes Bzioba The first issue of Dark Horse’s new Aliens miniseries balanced somewhere between generic and shocking; with a (seemingly) standard plot livened up by Arcudi’s decision to kill his (seemingly) main characters a dozen pages after…
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Aliens #1 Comic Book Review
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Dark Horse Writer: John Arcudi Pencils: Zach Howard Inks: Mark Irwin, Zack Howard Colours: Wes Dzioba With Dark Horse currently compiling their back catalogue into rather neat Omnibus editions, it’s surprising how well many of the early Aliens, Predator and Terminator miniseries still read. Naturally, there were only so many directions these franchises could be…
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Terminator Salvation Movie Review
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James Cameron’s once treasured Terminator franchise has seen its ups and downs over the last few years. A second sequel that offered little more than a retread veering into self-parody and a sixty year-old Schwarzenegger, and an occasionally interesting and cerebral television show that was cancelled just as it was looking promising have diminished the…