iZombie was a creator owned comic series for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics that ran from 2010 to 2012. On March 17th, a TV series adaptation of the comic book will begin airing on the CW, the same network ...
Read More »Greg Rucka’s Veil: A mysterious woman, is she hero or villain?
In March 2014, Dark Horse comics began publishing the miniseries Veil. This creator-owned comic series comes from the mind of the Eisner Award winning writer Greg Rucka with the artistic talents of Toni Fejzula. The hardcover collection of all issues ...
Read More »Casting Kusanagi: Live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell
Scarlett Johansson is going to play Major Motoko Kusanagi. This was the big news (for anime and manga fans, at least) at the start of the month when Dreamworks announced its first casting decision for the 2017 live action adaptation ...
Read More »My Favourite Things: 2014 edition
Every year there are so many new additions to the creative world. No one could ever keep up with all of it. And this uber-consumer of popular culture products is no different. That said, I have consumed an awful lot ...
Read More »Lazarus: Protect your family at all costs
This year I have discovered some great comics series. And all of the new series I’ve latched onto have been from Image Comics. Their output is fantastic and I can’t wait to read more (Fatale is the next one I ...
Read More »Forever retelling fairytales: The best of the reimaginings
Anyone who thinks that fairytales are just for children are sadly mistaken. If you were to give them a copy of Grimm’s fairytales I would put money on them being shocked by the dark content of these so-called children’s stories. ...
Read More »Dead Boy Detectives: The best damn detectives in England
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine were first introduced to readers in the classic Vertigo series Sandman back in 1990 as part of the ‘Seasons of Mist’ collection. It is there that the characters meet for the first time. When hell ...
Read More »Saga: Some monsters are worse than others
I know it’s a controversial opinion to have, but I hated Y: The Last Man. Yes, hated. That said, the premise of Saga was just too intriguing not to give Brian K. Vaughan another chance. I wasn’t sorry. Saga (trade ...
Read More »It’s Batman’s 75th Birthday! Some of Batman’s best moments in print
This July marks the 75th anniversary of Batman. ‘Batman Day’ will be celebrated by DC Comics and Warner Brothers Studios on July 23rd with a re-release of the original Detective Comics issue that featured the first ever story of Batman ...
Read More »Guest Post: Hanging with the Dead Boys by Toby Litt
Pop Verse is very lucky to have a guest post from acclaimed writer Toby Litt. Toby was listed in the Granta Best Young British Novelists list in 2003 and has since won both the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Sunday Times EFG ...
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