Reviews

About six months ago I was talking to a friend about what we had been reading recently. In her handbag was Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It was one of those books that she loved to reread ...

Some people might think that a Shakespearean comedy is a strange choice for the director of The Avengers and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to take on. Back when Joss Whedon was working on Buffy and Angel, he used ...

*spoiler free review* Plot 33 years ago in a galaxy far, far away, Krypton is dying.  Those greedy Kryptonians have used up all their natural resources and started mining the planet’s core, essentially digging their own graves.  Meanwhile, Kryptonian SecDef ...

It is no secret that I love Robin McKinley. The book that I most often reread is The Hero and the Crown, a favourite of mine since I was a child. Having previously only known her as a children’s writer, ...

We’ve all had those fun daydreams where we accomplish the impossible with our “hero” sidekick. Defending against our friends who were villainous, or as close to, and saving the day with our near-functioning D&D plots. As I grew older, my ...

I’m a huge fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I have read the book three times, which is rare for me. Very few titles make it onto the ‘read more than once’ list. Films made from books rarely achieve ...

I was having a discussion with my housemate (and fellow Pop Verse writer) Ash the other day, and we came to an agreement about the new Star Trek films. He was never a fan of old Star Trek in any ...

While I have been a geek for many years, I have never been a comic geek – until now. I currently live with two big comic book geeks. They really wanted me to try out some comics, especially after I ...

We shouldn’t focus only on comics published by mainstream publishers. There are a lot of independent comics published too. Today I am looking at ‘Geek Girl #0’, published by independent publisher Actuality Press, started by Geek-Girl’s creator, Sam Johnson. The ...

Finding new books is always difficult for me. I normally float towards Science Fiction/Fantasy. Every now and again I make my way to historical fiction or some suspenseful mystery, however, this was not one of those days. As I was ...