Archive for the 'Comics' Category

THE STARSTORE NEWS ROUNDUP: WHEEL OF TIME, GREEN LANTERN, ROCKY HORROR, DARK KNIGHT

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Hey there folks, here’s our daily roundup of what is currently making big nerd-shaped waves on planet geek. Up today we have a legendary series of books coming to the movies, a much loved DC character gets closer to having a movie out, a cult classic gets remade (um, I know this happens pretty much [...]

COMICS NEWS: What’s on the way?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

SPAWN- TODD’S BACK: Todd McFarlane is taking time out from the world of action figures and collecting baseballs in order to return to the character he created back in the day for issue 185 of SPAWN from Image. With art by Todd and Whilce Portacio, this is sure to fly off the shelves as soon [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: THE X-FILES, THE DARK KNIGHT, VENOM, SUSPIRIA, ZACK AND MIRI

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
Our in-depth review of the brand new X-Files feature film is now up. You can check out our review of The X-Files: I Want To Believe over on our Blogspot page here. We’re all  hoping that this one performs well enough for the mooted third film to be made!
BATMAN TAKES [...]

THE DARK KNIGHT DEBATE

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

While The Dark Knight takes Batman and the Joker ever further into the annals of movie history with its huge opening run, there have been some conflicting voices in reviews of the film. While most have been blown away by the formidable spectacle of a gritty vision of DC’s most famous characters waging war against [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP- VENOM MOVIE, WATCHMEN IMAGES, TRANSFORMERS 2, ROBOCOP

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SONY COMMISSION NEW VENOM SCRIPT
Alongside the proposed fourth entry in the Spider-man franchise (and the fifth, which is said to be shooting back to back with number 4), Sony have commissioned a new script to be written for a standalone VENOM movie. Introduced to movie audiences with Spider-man 3, Venom has long been a favourite [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: SDCC, WOLVERINE FOOTAGE SHOWN, RED SONJA, CAPTAIN AMERICA, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT

Friday, July 25th, 2008

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON UNDERWAY!
Well, geeks all over the world are now lapping up the news and pics that those lucky &%$£@#s that got to go to this year’s San Diego Comic Con are putting up, and it certainly seems to be a bumber year for good stuff. Mind you, the absence of things like Transformers [...]

LIFE IN THE GEEK LANE: Because there’s more to life than lolcats and spoof inspirational posters.

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Well, geek season is here again, and there’s a ton of cool stuff making fanboys and girls grin from ear to ear. We’ve already had Iron man, The Incredible Hulk and Wanted, and here comes The Dark Knight to make you all wish you had a Batcave of your own. Personally I’m okay with pretty [...]

WATCHMEN: THE TRAILER IS HERE!!!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The most anticipated comic book movie adaptation of the last twenty years is now a step closer to hitting our screens! The first trailer for Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary WATCHMEN graphic novel has hit the net and cinemas in the US, and it really is a breathtaking look at [...]

TERMINATOR SALVATION TRAILER, NEW TURTLES MOVIE COULD BE ON THE WAY, JON WOO TO DIRECT COMIC MOVIE…

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

TERMINATOR SLAVATION TRAILER NOW ONLINE
The first teaser trailer for the forthcoming first part in the new Terminator trilogy, Terminator Salvation, is now online for you to check out! It doesn’t show much, but this teaser alone makes up for the travesty that was T3. Is the new one going to be as good [...]

CURRENT READING

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I must admit I’ve not been keeping that up to date with comics and graphic novel reading lately, mainly down to writing blogs and doing all the other stuff that comes with working in a busy comic store, but I’ve been trying to check out some recent stuff again and here’ the titles that have [...]