Written & Directed by Jeff Wadlow Check it out in cinemas now! Beware of spoilers! Three years after the original ‘Kick-Ass’ took many a cinema-goer by surprise the cast a back a little older, somewhat taller and ready to take a stab at taking the success of the first film and turning it into a fully fledged franchise. ‘Kick-Ass’ was a critical and box office success but not one that came without controversy. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have picked up on the shock at the general levels of profanity and violence in the film but…
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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A nice albeit brief change of pace before ‘Battle of the Atom’ starts. Written by Brian Bendis Cover by Stuart Immonen Art by David Lafuente Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Beware of spoilers! Issue #15 is technically the end of the arc which leads us in to the ‘Battle of the Atom’ crossover event taking place in several of the ongoing X-Men titles but it is also a standalone story which almost forgets the ongoing conflict between the different X-teams. This issue sees the older (present day) X-Men take a backseat and allow the teen characters to stand on…
Batman finally cracks a smile in the wake of losing Damian… Cover & Pencils by Patrick Gleason Written by Peter J Tomasi Ink by Mick Gray Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Beware of spoilers! In the wake of the death of Damian in New 52 Batman Inc #8 Batman has been pretty miserable in this series which is to be expected but the loss of one of the titular characters has allowed this book to undergo a massive shakeup. So far Batman has teamed with Red Robin; Red Hood and Batgirl. Next month he finds himself teamed up with…
Directed by Curt Geda Written by Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl Watch it live on Cartoon Network USA, Saturdays @ 10:00 Beware of spoilers! This week Beware the Batman brings us a story about love. There’s something Frankenstein-esque and at times almost King Kong about ‘Toxic’ with the tragedy dial turned up to an eleven. Katanna/Tatsu doesn’t appear in this episode which shifts all of the focus back on to Bruce/Batman allowing him a little more screen time and some more character development than we have seen in recent weeks. There are some great callbacks to early episodes with Simon…
In 1998 the comic book world was rocked by the publication of ‘The Killing Joke’. Written by Alan Moore and featuring some striking art by Brian Bolland the effects of this one-shot story still continue to reverberate around the DC Universe. The story had a massive influence over the origin story of The Joker drawing from the 1951 story ‘The Man Behind the Red Hood’ and rounding out the story in a way which presented The Joker for the first time as a character that the readers could sympathise for. Tim Burton would go on to say that ‘The Killing…
The joke is on those not reading this series… Cover by Mike Allred Written by Jeff Parker Art by Joe Quinones Colours by Maris Wicks Purchase your digital copy @ Comixology now Beware of serious spoilers! This week The Joker finally makes his entrance to the Batman ‘66 comic universe and he does so in a chapter that’s jam packed with references to the wider Bat-verse and with a great original story to boot. This issue is a massive love letter to everything that The Joker has been to the Batman mythos in all forms of media. The issue opens on page…
Directed by Bryan Spicer Written by John Kamps (Story) & Ame Olsen (Story & Screenplay) Buy it now on DVD @ Amazon.co.uk Beware of some very old spoilers! Decided to go right back to childhood again for a classic review this week and stick with the non-DC Comics related theme started with TMNT last week. Just like I was an obsessive fan of TMNT when I was little when MMPR first appeared on Sky I was hooked. The colours, the monsters the Zords oh man it was like nothing I had ever seen before yet amazingly compared to kids TV…
Written by Brian Bendis Art by Stuart Immonen Purchase issue #14 and the rest of All New X-Men @ Comixology Now. Beware of spoilers! I’ve been saying this in a lot of comic review recently but starting at issue #1 despite satisfying any compulsive needs for completion is just not an achievable goal for just one reviewer. With that in mind here we jump in to All New X-Men at issue #14. For the uninitiated All New X-Men brings the original X-Men team from the past to the present day in order to confront their present selves in the wake…
The ‘Trinity War’ kicks off in massive fashion this month. Written by Geoff Johns Art by Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert and Rob Reis Purchase issue #22 and the rest of The New 52 JL @ Comixology. Beware of spoilers!The ‘Trinity War’ has arrived! Covering eleven issues of Justice League, Justice Leave of America, Justice League Dark, Constantine, Trinity of Sin: Pandora and Trinity of Sin: The Phantom Stranger the story focusses on all out war between the three leagues. The plans were laid at the beginning of The New 52 with Pandora appearing in all the issue #1s…
Season 9 of BtVS motors towards its conclusion as all parties fight their way to the core… Script by Andrew Chambliss Pencils by George Jeanty Inks by Dexter Vines Colours by Michelle Madsen Purchase your copy at Forbidden Planet now. Beware of spoilers!I realise that coming in to this series at issue #23 of 25 is a little late but going back to review the 22 issues that came before this seemed like too much of a mammoth task. For me season 9 has been a massive improvement over season 8 which I felt got massively lost in the scope…