Revisiting Stephen King’s Different Seasons
Revisiting Stephen King’s Different Seasons Reading this collection of four excellent pieces in 2017 is a very different experience to having read it back in 1983, shortly after its initial publication. It’s not that my opinion of Stephen King has changed much; if anything, I appreciate him even more now than I did then. Rather, in what is surely a unique case, three of the collection’s four stories were turned into films that are...
Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
An Abattoir of Poppies: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem “The last word that he said, it was Jerusalem.” Yeah, I know what he means: I thought it was going to be my last word an’ all. I seem to have been living with Alan Moore’s ‘million word magnum opus’ for more than three months, including a break to take a trip back home for my dear old mum’s 81st birthday. Do you remember that episode of Friends where Joey just has to get through all...
Star Trek Spock: Reflections
Star Trek Spock: Reflections Graphic Novel Collection Volume 04 First appearing in 2009 as a four issue mini-series and released as a graphic novel collection from IDW at the start of the following year, the first thing to say about Spock: Reflections is that it is an enjoyable read. And yes, I’ll get to the ‘but’ in a moment. It is written by Scott Tipton and David Tipton, with layouts by David Messina and inked by...
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hive
Star Trek: The Next Generation Hive Graphic Novel Collection Volume 03 I had really only intended to comment on the first couple of volumes of the Eaglemoss Collection of Star Trek graphic novels; but I’m finding them weirdly addictive. As mentioned previously, I wouldn’t be a huge Trek fan outside of the movies, although I seem to have absorbed more info than I had thought, probably through a form of osmosis mixed with sheer...
Star Trek : The City on the Edge of Forever
Star Trek Harlan Ellison®’s The City on the Edge of Forever The Original Teleplay Sooooo…here we have the second volume in the Eaglemoss Collection of Star Trek graphic novels. Their initial one – Countdown, reviewed on this blog – was an absolute cracker. And with the second outing carrying that title I was all set to be writing that this was even better. The overall package and presentation is indeed once again simply...
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection – Volume 01 : Countdown
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection Volume 01 Countdown I would never miss a Star Trek film. I love them; even that really bad one, you know the one I mean. Yet I wouldn’t go particularly out of my way to catch one of the many small-screen incarnations that this extraordinarily endurable social phenomenon has spawned. And I have certainly never entertained even the notion of reading the adventures of the Trekkers in comic...
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