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…
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.
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…
Plot by Dan Slott Script by Christos Gage Pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli Inks by John Dell Colour by Antonio Fabela Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! I’ve been out of action on ‘Spider-Man’ comics for a while, pretty much since Otto Octavius took over the body of Peter Parker and allowed Peter to die inside his own failing body. It wasn’t the actual story or the removal of Peter Parker from the continuity, it was more that I was feeding off my own excitement around ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ movies and wanted to read some great Peter Parker stories and that…
Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Ray Fawkes Consulting Writers: John Layman & Tim Seeley Art by Andy Clarke Cover by Alex Garner Colours by Blond Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! It’s time to take a short break from the dungeons of Arkham and the lights of Tokyo to spend some time catching up with the Bats: Man, Girl and Woman plus Red Hood, Lieutenant Bard and former-Commissioner Gordon in issue #18 of ‘Batman Eternal’. Taking over the reigns of cover artist this week is Alex Garner who does a great job of contrasting the two-tone…
Written by Will Pfeifer Art by Kenneth Rocafort Colours by Dan Drown Letters by John J. Hill Variant cover by Cameron Stewart & Nathan Fairbairn Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Following up from a very solid issue #1 (reviewed here!) Pfeifer and Rocafort are back with a second issue which continues to push the concept of heroes in a social media world whilst upping the stakes for the titular heroes. As I picked up on a scene which I felt was unnecessary at the end of issue #1 pushing the LGBT aspect of the title a little too obviously…
Written by Tim Seeley Plot by Tim Seeley & Tom King Art by Mikel Janin, Guillermo Ortego & Juan Castro Cover by Mikel Janin Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! After a successful transition from Nightwing to Agent 37 in issue #1 (checkout our review here!) Seeley continues to write a strong story for Dick Grayson with issue #2 by bringing in more of the emotional side of the story to balance out the spy drama however there’s perhaps a little too much thrown at completely new readers with little knowledge of the lead character for longtime fans to enjoy.…
Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Ray Fawkes Consulting Writers: John Layman & Tim Seeley Pencils & Cover by Dustin Nguyen Inks by Derek Fridolfs Colours by John Kalisz Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! This issue the ensemble nature of ‘Batman Eternal’ is pushed even further to the forefront as a flashback story tells of a Deacon and his cult in Gotham; Corrigan and Batwing continue to struggle with demons in Arkham, Harper and Red Robin and Sergei Alexandrov in Tokyo and finally Alfred and Julia Pennyworth in Wayne Manor. You could forgiven for asking…
Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Stuart Immonen Cover by Stuart Immonen Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! With my review of issue#28 (here) I talked about how the writers of this book have almost written themselves into a complicated time travel, alternate future corner which is going to be incredibly difficult to write their way out of. Now here we are discussing issue #29 and the writers are beginning to do exactly that by moving the story in to a final conclusion in the battle with young Xavier’s Brotherhood first introduced in the ‘Battle of the Atom’ arc. What the writers…