Category Archives: Opinion

The World’s Gone Mad: Wonder Woman Banned From School

Time for a small dose of outrage. Rules are generally useful and there to help a community. It’s the interpretation of those rules that usually causes problems. Take this interesting set of images and associated comment from a parent’s friend: … Continue reading

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Review: I Sell Comics Podcast

I Sell Comics is a podcast that shouldn’t work. It has two guys on it who’d be the first to admit that they’re not wordsmiths or polished presenters. There’s enough background noise at times to rival a busy supermarket. There’s … Continue reading

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Five Good Comics Groups On Facebook

Facebook has lots of flaws, but one thing I do like about it is its groups feature. And for comics fans there’s a lot of good groups on there to get your teeth into. Here’s five I particularly like: 1. … Continue reading

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Five Really Obvious Comic Predictions for 2015

It’s that time of the year – predictions and prognostications for the coming twelve months. After many years of getting predictions stunningly wrong in a range of areas, I thought I’d put forward five bloody obvious predictions that I’m actually … Continue reading

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Sean’s Pull List: 8/09/2014

There are a lot of comics that come out each week, and I never seem to be able to cover all the ones that I want to. So from now on I will be doing a weekly round-up, where I … Continue reading

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Sexism Towards Cosplayers: Here’s How To Act

Bleeding Cool have a great article from Nicole Jacobs on the crap she’s had to put up with at events. It’s a great read and hopefully some of those guilty of crappy behaviour like this in the past might stop … Continue reading

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2013 Comics Highlights

It’s the time of the year where we look back on the previous 12 months and the highlights and lowlights. Kimberley Griffiths and I dragged ourselves off our respective summer couches to throw some bouquets and brickbats: Kimberley’s take 1. … Continue reading

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Marvel’s Numbering Obsession

It’s not often I go on a rant, so it’s probably about time. The focus of said rant is Marvel Comics, who I’ve been interacting with as a consumer since the mid-1970s. I know things have changed a lot since … Continue reading

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Five Cameos You Won’t See In Avengers: Age of Ultron

Like most people I’m pretty excited for seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron, which got me thinking to some great characters I’d like to see (from either a comedic or sentimental viewpoint) make a cameo, that won’t appear in the movie … Continue reading

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Review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D – Pilot

When I first saw the teaser trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (which will from here on be referred to as SHIELD), I wasn’t impressed. While the internet was going crazy over it, I was sitting in my own little … Continue reading

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