The weekend London Comic Con Spring (LCCS) will be hitting the Olympia exhibition centre. Fans from across the country will be descending on the capital to meet some of their pop culture icons. We’ll be on the ground all weekend checking out the best of what the convention has to offer. If you see us make sure to come up and say hi, if you’re lucky we’ll be dishing out some of our new Super Friend badges too! Here’s our quick survival guide to the weekend: Opening Times LCCS is open from 9am until 6pm, Saturday (2nd March) and Sunday…
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.
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Over the weekend there were plenty of rumours regarding the future of DC Comics. Many of those rumours pointed to the company cutting around 15% of titles in order to undertake a restructure of its business. It was also widely reported that the companies line of Walmart exclusive titles would be coming to an end. The 100-page giants began publishing last year. The giant issues are made up of a mix of original and reprinted content. The release of these books was design to help popularise comics to a wider audience. Now Didio has commented on those rumours and clarified…
Patrick Stewart recently sat down with Yahoo! for a career spanning interview. Talk turned to his upcoming return to the Star Trek franchise with his solo series, Picard. Discussing the format of the series Stewart told interviewers it will shy away from the standalone, story-of-the-week, format of The Next Generation. Instead the show is being produced as a “10-hour movie”. “We’re hoping for more than one season, and with this first [season], and this is one of the things that’s so interesting about the writers’ room, they are writing a 10-hour movie. In The Next Generation, it was a story, a…
Synopsis Burnham and the crew navigate a dangerous alien landscape in a race against time to save Tilly’s life, but Stamets is not at all prepared for what they find in the process. Section 31 is assigned to help track down Spock, much to Pike’s dismay. Review I’ve been pretty tough on Star Trek: Discovery in my last two reviews. This season has felt like somewhat of a rollercoaster of viewing. Whilst I can appreciate the exhilarating action sequences the sense of urgency has swallowed up time we should be spending with its characters. Praise to the Old Gods and…
Marvel has confirmed that its long-running Spider-Man/Deadpool team up coming will be coming to an end in May. The series, which began in 2016, has seen the two characters caught up in some major hijinks over the years. But after 50 issues it will now be drawing to a close in May. Cover artist Dave Johnson confirmed the news on Twitter by sharing his cover to the final issue. As he says it does seem rather fitting… https://twitter.com/Devilpig666/status/1099370916398551041 Here’s the full solicit for the issues: ROBBIE THOMPSON (W)JIM TOWE & MATT HORAK (A)Cover by DAVE JOHNSONTHE BIGGEST CLIMAX OF THE…
Over the last week Captain Marvel has been hitting the headlines for many different reasons. The majority of fans and media outlets are sharing hype for the movies release in two weeks time. But a cross-section of the internet is instead looking to detract anyone from seeing the movie. Why? I hear you ask… well we’re not really sure. At the time of writing the movie has an audience score of just 31%. That’s despite not releasing for another ten days. The score is based off over 37k members of the website giving poor reviews. The closest audience score in…
Things are really starting to heat up on FOX drama The Passage. This week’s episode, entitled “You Are Like The Sun”, will see things take a turn for the worse at Project Noah. Check out the synopsis and trailer for the episode below. FEAR IS BUILDING AT PROJECT NOAH ON AN ALL-NEW “THE PASSAGE” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, ON FOXBrad and Lila flash back through their history together as they plan to save Amy. The Secretary of Defense gives Horace Guilder (guest star James Le Gros) full authority over Project NOAH, leaving Sykes and Richards terrified for what his plan of…
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will soon release Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse on home video. In readiness for the release the company has released the first deleted scene from the movie. The scene features an emotional moment between Peter Parker and Miles Morales. You can watch the clip in the player below and read our review of the movie here. https://youtu.be/SZKeYacz4ao Enter a universe where more than one wears the mask. Watch the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse trailer now, in cinemas December 2018.Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the creative minds behind “The Lego Movie” and “21 Jump Street,” bring their unique…
Though it doesn’t have much time left at the box office, Aquaman is still taking no prisons. Over the weekend the Warner Bros. release surpassed Iron Man 3 ($805.7M) to become the highest grossing solo superhero movie at the international box office. The James Wan directed epic has now reached $806M. According to Forbes the movie has a way to go to reach the $896M of Avengers in 2012, Avengers: Age of Ultron ($945m in 2015) and Avengers: Infinity War ($1.3b in 2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XFYpLYpLE From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an acition-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of…
It’s been a great night for Marvel at the 2019 Oscars ceremony. Both Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse were big winners on the night. Following wins at the BAFTAS and Golden Globes Spider-Verse picked up the award for Best Animated Feature. Once again Spidey beat off competition from Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Mirai and Ralph Breaks the Internet to scoop the award. Congratulations to the team at Sony for creating such a unique movie. All eyes were on Marvel Studios Black Panther which was nominated in a number of categories including Best Picture. Though Best Picture went…