John Chapman first had the idea for Jonnie Rocket back in 1998. Since then, he has published four Jonnie Rocket books, with more on the way. If you visit the website, you will find that John also does a lot of work ...
Read More »Amazon’s takeover of Comixology and the future of comic books
Amazon has furthered its reputation as the embodiment of the Star Wars Galactic Empire by buying up much-loved digital comics company Comixology. Not two weeks after purchasing the company, Amazon has made fundamental changes to the way the app works – you ...
Read More »Captain America: The Winter Soldier – This isn’t freedom. This is fear.
*Spoiler free* Marvel’s cinematic universe has tended to lean towards fun films, with lots of humour despite the serious good vs. evil type plots. It’s been a nice way for them to carve their own unique direction, in opposition to ...
Read More »Who are your Guardians of the Galaxy?
Update The film is out now and it’s as glorious as I predicted in this article way back in March. If you’re looking for the Pop Verse review then look no further than HERE! Otherwise read on and check out ...
Read More »The Wolf Among Us: You ate a lot of people back in your day
Back in 2012, a little-known indie games publisher won over 90 ‘game of the year’ awards with their episodic series The Walking Dead. Their games follow this same episodic structure and most of their successful releases have been of the ...
Read More »The battle of the superheroes: Marvel vs. DC
When people think of comic books, they tend to think of DC and Marvel. The big names from the golden age who gave us such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Captain America. For over a decade, ...
Read More »All aboard the Neil Gaiman train
Back in 2010, I was fairly new to Twitter. As always, I was desperately (or cleverly?!) trying to keep up with the modern world. I had heard about this ‘one book one twitter’ book club event taking place; the idea ...
Read More »Jumping the shark: The problem with The Big Bang Theory
I was once a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory. It was funny. They made jokes that only geeks would get and it included cameos from Wil Wheaton (and other geeky celebrities). The first few seasons of this Bill ...
Read More »Fables
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 ...
Read More »Geek-Girl
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 ...
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