What is ‘Mutant X: Issue 1’?

I’ve always been a sucker for alt-world stories. Stories where black can be white, up can be down and bad can be good. I also like comics that are set off in their own little corner of the multiverse, valid and yet seperate from everything else. Free to do what they want in service of the story. That’s why in an age of epic crossovers I’ve decided to dig into my long box and see how things used to be in a little comic lost in the age of google searches in favour of a low rent television show that nobody liked much better but had far better reach. So if you’re here for the very early 2000’s low budget Candian Marvel show about a group who are most certainly not the x-men then you are going to be disappointed for this is Marvel’s comic book spin off of a group who are not quite the X-men. This is…

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Exiles New Vs Old: Issue four

Turns out that whole bi-monthly thing was just a flash in the pan for series new which makes me ask why they bothered with it at all. Especially for such a short spell and not even through their first major storyline. Either way they’re back as are the originals in my review of issue four of………………..

What is ‘Mort’?

We’re only four books in but I think it’s safe to say that we already have a clear winner for most popular Discworld character. Now perhaps it’s not one you might expect and I suspect it might not have been the one who Sir Terry suspected when he first wrote about a terrible wizard and hapless tourist. Yet he is already stepping out of the background and into the leading role. Well maybe co-lead. Yes it’s The Librarian DEATH who is struggling to focus on the task at hand in……

Exiles ‘Old vs New’: Issue Three

So this is it, issue three. The classics are starring down the barrel of one of the most popular comic book stories of all time and the newbies are starring down the barrel of a  half hearted attempt to appeal to fans of a cult t.v show, from two years ago; as originally made by a pay to win mobile game that few actually bothered to play. This is issue three of ……………………

Exiles ‘New vs Old’: Issue Two

When last we left our heroes the old guard had unleashed the worlds most powerful telepath who had been under lock and key for a very good reason and the new squad were operating at half strength and facing down a disembodied head of Galactus that was apparently eating up parallel Earths. We’re at one nill and it’s still anyone’s game in……………..

Exiles ‘Old Vs New’: Issue One

I often get accused of idolising the past, of course the comics I grew up with were better; they had better costumes, better story lines and better characters. Well I thought this time I would see if it were true. I haven’t gone back to Exiles in many years despite my love for the title and will thus be comparing them back to back issue to issue and for those who don’t know who the Exiles are. Why they’re a team who travel across parallel worlds, where it’s the same year and they are the same people but everything else was different to put right what once went wrong.

What is ‘Star Trek Discovery: Will You Take My Hand’?

The Klingons and closing in on Earth, we’ve got a Terran in charge of the last, best hope for the Federation and there’s forty five minutes to get this done. This is the last episode of season one; this is……………..