Cover by Mike Allred Written by Jeff Parker Art & Colours by Jonathan Case Purchase your digital copy @ Comixology now! BEWARE OF BAT-SPOILERS! Long live the team of Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case! This week ‘The Hatter Takes the Crown’ introduces The Mad Hatter to the book, originally portrayed by David Wayne in the series. I don’t remember much about his appearances in the show but I do remember his crazy hat and the ‘special effects’ that went along with it. This week Parker has taken a few cues from the reference laden opening chapter of The Joker arc…
Author: Neil Vagg
Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
Cover & Pencils by David Finch Written by Geoff Johns Inks by Richard Friend Colours by Sonia Obak Purchase your copy @ Comixology now. BEWARE OF SPOILERS! Each September since the launch of ‘The New 52’ DC Comics have pulled something big out of their bag, last year it was ‘Zero Month’ which gave us glimpses of the world of the 52 prior to its launch and this year it’s ‘Villains Month’. Many of the flagship titles in the DC catalogue are releasing up to four issues this month, chronicling some of the most prestigious villains to ever grace the…
Purchase your copy on DVD @ Amazon.co.uk now! Are there any spoilers left from a 1975 TV series?! As comic fandom moves on from the excitement of the first ‘Avengers’ movie the focus now turns to how DC Comics can pull together its first live action ‘Justice League’ adventure. We’ve seen modernised and hugely successful reboots of Batman and Superman on the silver screen and Green Arrow on the small screen but one of DC Comics greats who remains to be transformed for modern day audience is Wonder Woman. Her comics remain popular and the recent DCAU short has ignited interest…
Cover by Greg Capullo Written by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Pencils by Rafael Albuquerque Inks by Rafael Albuquerque & Danny Miki Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! BEWARE OF SPOILERS! I realise this review seems a little out dated to be reviewing issue #22 when both issue #23 and #23.1 have now been released but unfortunately the way my subscription works I’m always a month behind on Batman. The ‘Batman’ title has failed to do any wrong for quite some time and with the introduction of the ‘Zero Year’ arc it continues to break new ground in the Batman universe…
Cover by Jason Fabok Written by John Layman Art by Andy Clarke & Jason Fabok Colours by Blond & Emilio Lopez Purchase your copy @ Comixology now. BEWARE OF SPOILERS! ‘Detective Comics’ is going through something of a creative surge right now which has brought us the Wrath arc. The Bat-verse has been plagued by massive story arcs featuring villains who have sprawled across various titles so following on from the Court of Owls, Leviathan and The Jokers return in ‘Death of the Family’ it’s an interesting change of pace to have Batman face of against a formidable but not…
Cover & Art by Alex Maleev Written by Gregg Hurwitz Colours by Dave McCaig Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! BEWARE OF SPOILERS! ‘The Dark Knight’ as a title has a bit of a chequered past having launched in January 2011 delays meant that the second issue was released roughly four months later, issue three arrived three months after this and only then did it manage to release issues in concurrent months. The title was brought about in order to re-introduce Bruce Wayne to the character of Batman after ‘The Road Home’ arc which saw him essentially return from the…
Directed by Thor Freudenthal Written by Marc Guggenheim (screenplay), Rick Riordan (novel) In cinemas now! BEWARE OF SPOILERS! The ‘Percy Jackson’ franchise is an interesting phenomena in that it isn’t really a phenomena in the first place. The first film ‘The Lightning Thief’ was released in February of 2010 and despite receiving only a mixed reaction from critics managed to scrape home over $200 million at the worldwide box office. I missed to see the film at the cinema but caught up with it on blu-ray later on as I’m intrigued by adaptations of Greek mythology. Three years later and…
Directed by Roy Burdine & Lloyd Goldfine Written by Rob David, Matthew Dredk and Llyod Goldfine Purchase your copy on DVD @ Amazon.co.uk now! BEWARE OF SPOILERS! It’s Sunday morning, I needed some cartoons to watch and I thought of this movie which I’ve had for a while but still haven’t gotten around to watching. The premise of this film is pretty genius: to bring together the three most famous incarnations of the TMNT; the 1984 comic book originals, the 1987 cartoon classics and the 2003 animated series team plus versions of the villains from both animated universes and all…
Cover by Mike Allred Written by Jeff Parker Art by Sandy Jarrell Coloured by Rico Renzi Purchase your digital copy @ comixology now! Beware of spoilers! We’re on to our next back-up story this week in ‘Batman ‘66’ and for this little gem Jeff Parker has called on the villainous Egghead – played by Vincent Price in the original series – to cause mayhem in Gotham. I would have liked to see The Joker’s arc stretch to a full three issues but this format of a major villain for the main story and a lesser villain for the back-up story…
Directed by J. J. Abrams Written by Bob Orci & Alex Kurtzman Get it on Blu-Ray @ Amazon.co.uk now! As always: beware of spoilers! With sequel ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ released on blu-ray/DVD in the UK on September 2nd I thought I’d jump back to the 2009 reboot that kick-started this new version of the franchise. I’ll start out by saying that I’m a little too young for the original ‘Star Trek’ series. That’s not to say I haven’t gone back and watched it but my Trek was ‘The Next Generation’ through ‘Deep Space Nine’ and the beginnings of ‘Voyager’…