In the previous post, I talked about the challenges faced by the revival of the Green Lantern comic book series and its surprising rise to acclaim. In this second post, I take a look at the coup de grace in the third volume leading to the Blackest...
This has been a good decade for the comeback. Comic books themselves have made a major revival in many ways and are back to becoming a part of the group subconsciousness. Sure, the sales at the comic shops are still slacking and the presence of new...
1968 saw the arrival of both Doctor Who and The Wheel in Space in which the Doctor battled the Cybermen and Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, a movie that challenged audiences and film makers’ approach to sci fi flicks.
The...
A cult manga character from 1973 created by Takao Saito (the artist responsible for a stunning James Bond manga in ‘64), Golgo 13 is in many ways Japan’s answer to Ian Fleming’s James Bond, with a few noteworthy differences. Whereas Bond is a ladies’...
Time and the Rani – story 144
The first adventure of the Seventh Doctor, this 1987 story has many detractors. While it is far from perfect, it also has some genuinely inspired moments in it. The very fact that it feels so new and different after...
