Season 21 of Doctor Who has a special place in my heart. Although my family had owned a Betamax video recorder since around 1981, I had never been able to afford the (still very expensive) cassettes to record whole seasons … Continue reading I’m Not Going to Let You Stop Me Now! Doctor Who – The Collection Season 21: Review
Just let me be beside the Seaside, I’ll be beside myself with glee,There are lots of Daleks beside; I should like to be beside,Beside the Seaside, beside the Sea. Wait, what… Daleks? Yes, that’s right – Daleks, because it’s that … Continue reading Sci-Fi Scarborough 2026: Review
What follows is my list of the big-screen Star Trek movies, ranked from worst to best. You may disagree with it – in fact, you almost certainly will – but it is just my personal opinion and everyone is entitled … Continue reading Star Trek Movies: Ranked Worst to Best
The Mandela Effect is a name for a tendency of large numbers of people to misremember an event, often based on a misleading online meme or a comedy reference that over-reaches its original context in the public consciousness. The name … Continue reading The Mandela Effect Effect
The Doctor Who Annual has been a Christmas standard for British kids for over 60 years now. It was published annually from 1965 to 1986 (excepting 1970, for pedants) and again from 2006 to the present day. You can even … Continue reading Doctor Who Annual: 1966 vs. 2026
Greetings, citizens of planet earth. You may or may not have noticed that The Universal Omnibus has been inactive for some time. This was because it came to my attention that there was unusual bulk viewing activity from certain parts … Continue reading Normal Service Has Now Been Resumed
Both this version of Red Sonja and the 1985 movie starring Brigitte Nielson proudly boast that they are based on a character created by Conan the Barbarian author Robert E. Howard, but that’s not strictly speaking true. Sure, Howard wrote … Continue reading Red Sonja: Review
I have a strong memory from my early childhood of walking down General Graham Street, the street where I grew up, daydreaming a Fantastic Four story so vividly that I was right there in the middle of the action; fighting … Continue reading The Fantastic Four: First Steps: Review
When Marvel UK republished the comic strip adaptation of the phenomenally successful film Star Wars in 1978, they did so in the manner traditional to British comics of the time; stripping the episodes into smaller chunks and filling out the … Continue reading The Back Pages: Monark Starstalker
Warning! Contains Spoilers! There’s a lot that is familiar to me about Thunderbolts*. I had a renaissance of comic book buying in the early noughties, suddenly finding myself with disposable cash and a commute that took me past Forbidden Planet … Continue reading Thunderbolts*: Review
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