This is a swift read, does that make it a bad read? Nope. A large part of why it is a swift read is due to the flow of the story, the writing, art, letters and colours being so very good, it all whisks you along.

The core part of this volume is built a cat lady and the idea that cats worshipping any human is way off. Cats…Read more

On the one hand this is the first volume after the major arc of the preceding volumes, thus it has to attend to flapping plot threads and set in flow new plots. Even allowing for that there are a couple of major weaknesses. One of these might be solved by future issues, the other cannot be.

First,…Read more

This turned out to be a very weird game. It’s mostly good but gets in its own way too much to be great. And, compared to its predecessor, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, it feels like a step backwards. Its visual communication is less clear, enemies no longer have health bars.

In the second half of the game…Read more

Feels odd but not bad, I don’t feel bad about it, but not sure I could I say what I do feel about beyond a sort of odd bemusement.

Taking it easy too with a week off.

We’re denied a likely withering assessment of a man claiming to have been forced to kill at 7 years of age and other dubious claims.

This intriguing Bendis-Araujo story isn’t easy to get in the UK, nor cheap, plus this final book has the extra burden of having to conclude it. Is it worth it? I think so.

Many stories claim to depict an alien world, but that’s rather hard to do. This one pulls it off. There’s recognisable pieces of our world, but…Read more

Where Stray Dogs was a contained, compact tale of a specific, individual form of evil that is a serial killer, this goes for a different adversary. A more viral one. Along with humans’ response to a rabies outbreak being indiscriminate animal slaughter.

Fleecs and Forster create a world that a load of indoor cats are manifestly…Read more

You know if you do a story with either animals or robots, you can get away with all kinds of stories in a way that just isn’t possible with humans. At the same time animals enables a perspective shift that can, if used well, be very interesting. Suffice to say this combines both.

A tale of a serial killer who kills women then steals…Read more

Sometimes a title alone gets a book attention, which this does. Then the creative team add to it, as its Rucka and Scott back together on a DC book. More Black Magick? Would be nice but this is also very good.

The art is excellent across the six issues, if anything it’s the story where it…Read more

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I’m not a big fan of final stories of this nature, but they can sometimes work. This one? It’s OK. McNiven’s art is great. One problem is the introduction mis-sells the story, it’s not a story of the Marvel universe, it’s a much smaller, more personal tale.

Another weakness is the setting and the worldbuilding for…Read more

I suspect one of the details that’ll come out is the sentencing guidelines were too imbalanced.

It is likely the sentence is revised by the Attorney General, as it’s…Read more

The New Mutants 30-36

The first story is a Claremont special, picking up a long hanging plot thread and doing interesting things with it. This one is what happened to Karma, who after disappearing apparently became a super-fat sadist. Of course, that’s not the case, she’s been possessed by Shadow King, who survived his…Read more

Also get the sense it’s perhaps more demanding behind-the-scenes in keeping this thing running that we know, so moving to Discord reduces the load on Gar.

It’s the only way I can see to do omnibuses.

The New Mutants 13-25, New Mutants Annual 1, Marvel Team-up 149

If you were in any doubt as to which of the two books was in the lead, this set of stories that New Mutants weaves around Uncanny X-men and not the other way around. It’s also notable just how uncynical this omnibus is. Marvel could have easily collected New…Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/17/the-ungovernable-country-why-britain-keeps-losing-prime-ministers

But it doesn’t address another problem, despite laying claim to being leader, I’m not sure UK politics has ever had that. It’s had lots who treat the PM role as boss, do what you’re told. Bossing isn’t the same…Read more

Outside of those they’ve been doing better – more renewable energy, more social housing, strengthened employment and renter rights, rejoining Erasmus.

Some see their…Read more

Marvel Team-up 100, Marvel GN 4: The New Mutants, New Mutants 1-13

Class is now in session, having previously addressed demagogues and hatemongers in the Uncanny X-men, we will now turn to tech bros… wait, these are +40 year old comics, so billionaire industrialists building Sentinels will have to do instead.

Save for…Read more

There’s a directed effort to get RefUK in by hook or by crook. Will it work? Hopefully not but people are dumb enough to go with…Read more

Uncanny X-Men 206-209, Nightcrawler 1-4, Longshot 1-6, New Mutants Annual 2, Marvel Fanfare 33

While the remaining issues of Uncanny X-Men are excellent, the rest of the omnibus is less so. The Nightcrawler mini is an OK diversion, but the Longshot mini didn’t work for me at all. The story didn’t draw me in, nor did I…Read more

Set after Hush, this is more or less a chase story of the leads pursuing the stolen lasso of truth, as it goes from Catwoman to Harley Quinn to Joker. The story’s OK but it’s a book bought far more for Cheung’s art which is superb. There’s some great moments along the way too, like Wonder Woman holding Catwoman by the…Read more

Uncanny X-Men 194-205, New Mutants Special Edition 1 and Uncanny X-Men Annual 9

Absurd as it sounds, this was published 2019. The first omnibus was 2006. 13 years to get these five omnibuses!

Unfortunately, while this set of issues was overall good, it’s the first time where I felt some weaknesses crept in. At the same…Read more

The bulk of the series is on what happens when the Empire comes to town, which I think it did well but if that’s of no interest then it’ll be boring.

From the writer of The Gold, a pair of series with a focus on what happens after a gold bullion robbery, this new Netflix series shifts to 1990 and the dying months of the Thatcher government amid a heroin flood. In response Customs mounts an undercover operation to nail the drug trade.

There’s a wry cynicism running through the story,…Read more