Where better to start with ‘Batman the Animated Series’ that with the original pilot episode ‘On Leather Wings’. Although the episode appears on home video releases of the series as the first episode it was screen as the second episode, the first aired being ‘The Cat and the Claw pt1’ which was bumped up from episode 15 due to the popularity of the Catwoman character portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton’s ‘Batman Returns’ released a mere 11 weeks before the episode aired. Whilst the films of Tim Burton were rated 12 in UK ‘BtAS’ shutting out the younger audience to the…
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.
Finally after months of build up and anticipation Fox’s new DC Comics property ‘Gotham’ hit screens across America on Monday, 22nd September. Written by Bruno Heller, directed by Danny Cannon the show stars ‘The OC’ alum Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, Donal Logue (‘Sons of Anarchy’) as Harvey Bullock, David Mazouz (‘Touch’) as Bruce Wayne and Sean Pertwee (‘A Touch of Frost’) as Alfred Pennyworth to name but a few. Set in a Gotham city years before Batman would appear to clean up the streets the show centres around the younger Detective James Gordon, a new recruit under the leadership of Captain…
Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Sara Pichelli Colours by Marte Gracia Letters by CV’s Corv Petit Cover by Stuart Immonen, Wade von Grawbadger and Marte Gracia Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Recently I’ve complained that ‘All-New X-Men’ has lingered too long in the fallout from ‘Battle of the Atom’ and become a little stagnant but thankfully this issue steps up to the mark visually whilst almost managing to push the story forwards for the first time in several issues. The quality of this book has never faltered, its just the nature of the story that has held it back from…
Script by Rhianna Pratchett & Gail Simone Pencils by Derlis Santacruz Inks by Andy Owens Colours by Michael Atiyeh Letters by Michael Heisler Cover by Stephanie Hans Purchase your copy @ TFAW now! Having finally tied up lose ends on the island of Yamatai Lara Croft is feeling sentimental this month and paying tribute to friends lost during all her recent trouble. But of course this is ‘Tomb Raider’ so where Lara goes trouble is not far behind culminating in a trip to the Ukraine. Most of this issue is set on the hillside of Snowdonia in Wales, not looking…
Written by Jason Latour Art by Robbi Rodriguez Colours by Rico Renzi Letters & production by VC’s Clayton Cowles Purchase your copy @ Forbidden Planet now! Last week the first issues of ‘Edge of the Spider-verse’ (reviewed here!) bought us a story featuring an already established version of Spider-Man from various forms of media and brought him in to the continuity of the current ‘Superior Spider-Man’ comics. This week the build up to Novembers ‘Spider-verse’ story beings us a twist on a famous character from Spidey history… Gwen Stacy. Modern fans of the hero might be less familiar with the character…
Script by Christos Gage Pencils by Karl Moline, Cliff Richards Inks by Andy Owens Colours by Dan Jackson Letters by Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt Variant cover by Rebekah Isaacs & Dan Jackson Purchase your copy @ TFAW now! This month ‘BtVS’ takes some time to reflect on times past by taking our characters back to a time when life was, almost, simpler. Moving on from the recent Dracula theme arc (reviewed in issues #4 and #5) the series is dialling back on the big-scale drama and dialling up the emotional content. Season 10 continues to prove that it’s digging back…
After a cracking episode last week with ‘Listen’ (reviewed here!) this week ‘Doctor Who’ ventures off in to space for a distinctly Earthly tale on a far away planet at the Bank of Karabraxos. Guest starring Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey and Pippa Bennett-Warner the episode is another big change in content from the previous episode and is our first truly out there space mission for the new Doctor. Capaldi has now had an adventure set in Earths past (‘Deep Breath’), a adventure featuring Daleks (‘Into the Dalek’), an adventure co-starring a literary hero (‘Robot of Sherwood’) and a chilling scary tale (‘Listen’) so…
Written by David Hine & Fabrice Sapolsky Art and Cover by Richard Isanove Letters by VC’s Clayton Cowles Variant cover by Greg Land, Jay Leisten & Morry Hollowell Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Edging closer towards the November ‘Spider-Verse’ onslaught Marvel is continuing to use companion books to setup the major players in the story, this week brought us ‘Edge of Spider-Verse’ #1 which focuses on the backstory of Spider-Man Noir. Like many my first introduction to Noir was via the ‘Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions’ video game which had a similar dimension hopping story to that which is beginning to…
Written by Tom King Plot by Tom King & Tim Seeley Art by Stephen Mooney Colours by Jeromy Cox Letters by Carlos M. Mangual Cover by Andrew Robinson Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! After only two months to setup his new circumstances Dick Grayson is thrust five years in to the future so that we can witness the potential end of his New 52 story. Unlike other issues in the special ‘Futures End’ month this story starts at the end and works its way backwards to show a young Dick at the circus with his family… yes this issue…
This week ‘Doctor Who’ went back into creepy territory with its fourth episode ‘Listen’ and it did it in great style. This is by far the high point of the season so far with Capaldi brining so much uniqueness to the role that by the end we were nearly saying ‘Matt who? David what?!’. The story of ‘Listen’ became a little convoluted at times: were we learning about Danny Pink? Was it a tale of the Doctor? Was it Clara’s story? But actually it was a little bit of all of them. Moffat has crafted a brilliant, mature story which…