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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 0
This movie is an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story The Picture of Dorian Gray. Don`t know it? Well, here goes - It`s the story of a man who remains young and healthy whilst his painted portrait retains his true image, and ages and corrupts accordingly... London, 1891. Gray (Ben Barnes), a young and handsome lad, arrives in London having inherited his beastly grandfather`s estate. Welcomed into the circle of London high-society, Dorian is introduced to a number of movers and shakers. Basil, a p...
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New Paradise Lost 0
I enjoyed this issue, maybe I`m becoming a bit more resolute to some of the shocks that Crossed Family Values delivers, maybe... (((SPOILERS AHEAD))) Judgement Day arrives for the God bothering inhabitants of the New Paradise settlement in the Montana mountains, I kinda guessed it would, although not as early as halfway through the series. Also, the demented pervert father, Joseph, gets to meet his Maker and it`s this that is the real meat of this issue. Adaline`s persuasion and the mother`s fin...
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Daddy Keeps It In The Family... 0
Well then, `Crossed Family Values` certainly doesn`t mind delving into taboos that most comics would probably shy away from. No holding back here, it is a little disturbing... The story is set in a world where a terrible virus has swept across the land turning it`s victims into deranged maniacs - imagine 28 Days Later, but these infected seem sexually as well as violently obsessed. There`s no explanation for this virus, no origins, it just....is. This second installment takes place months aft...
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Sex And Violence Shock Tactics 3
Some horror-genre comics take different approaches, some are more thought-provoking or mysterious like The Walking Dead or Cthulhu based stories. Crossed Family Values takes a more direct route. I hear a film production of this series could be in the works, if so it will certainly be in the splatter-movie style. I was quite impressed at first, liked the art and the plot seemed kinda interesting: The Pratt family lives on a large horse ranch. The father, Joseph, is a Bible-bashing bully who aside...
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Hulk Friday 0
A wave of nostalgia swept over me (I get that alot recently) when I spotted this familiar cover the other day. This issue was an old favourite of mine as a boy, and I had to give it a re-read... It`s no wonder it appealed to me back then, `No Man Is An Island!` has those elements that I would have relished - Pirates, desert islands, beast-men. The Hulk, between bouts of sleep, tackles these evils and even meets - I kid you not - Robinson Crusoe. Yep, you could get away with inconsistencies like ...
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 1
Yeah, I know this movie was released well over a year ago but, frankly I heard so much negative reaction that I kept putting off watching it. But, getting back late last night, I decided to give it a whirl. And.... ...I actually liked it! (well, someone had to) The Wolverine character has such a massive cult following that I suppose a movie depiction is going to annoy someone - or in this case, seemingly many people. But, I`m really not sure why, I mean it`s really not that bad, is it? True, may...
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"...like some big literary in-joke..." 3
Two FBI agents, Lamper and Brears, are visiting Sax,a serial-killer and former FBI agent in an asylum, he`s incarcerated for chopping up several people ( he `carved them into tulips`), and a copycat killer is now on the loose. Sax yabbers away in some arcane language, but the two agents get leads to the nightclub, Club Zothique. After raiding the club, the lead suspect, Carcosa, does a runner by escaping through the drains...investigating Carcosa`s house the agents stumble upon horror and....wee...
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A Storm Brewing... 2
Now this is more like it! These continuing parts of this ten-part story are coming out more frequently, which is just right, as this vampire tale is picking up momentum... After sluggishly drifting along down the Mississippi, the steamboat Fevre Dream is reaching New Orleans. In this installment we learn more about the mysterious Captain Joshua York, his two new guests and the confrontation that is waiting in New Orleans... Valerie gets up close and personal... There are some very good scenes...
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Superb Seeker Saga! 1
Marvel ditched the proposed marketing as Marvel Pop Art Productions and returned as Marvel Comics (phew!) for this milestone comic for the Fantastic Four. So much seems to happen in it, aside from the introduction of the Inhumans and so many new characters, we have the blossoming love-story of Johnny Storm and Crystal. We have a slug-fest issue and the origins of the Inhumans explained - it`s a hunk of a mag, I really can`t figure how they managed to cram so much in...but they did - and it`s gre...
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Wouldn`t want to meet her on a dark night... 0
`Vampire Pageant` is a collection of pin-ups by artist Mike Hoffman. This drew my attention with the thought of sexy and sensual creatures of the night... Yikes!! Vampires really are scary! This issue contains twenty-odd pencil or pen and ink portraits of a nude, or semi-nude vampire, sometimes drawn alone, or fighting various supernatural fiends...Most of Hoffman`s pictures seem to have been all with the same model, which is a shame, I was hoping for a bit more variation. While, the art is actu...
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 0
Firstly, I must say, I`m not a big fan of `anime` movies. But, having read a couple of Lady Death comics, and wanting to know more about the character, I thought I`d give this a whirl... In medieval Sweden, a young woman, Hope, is burned at the stake for witchcraft. As her body smoulders, she is rescued by her father, Lucifer, and taken to Hell. Spurning his offers - whatever the hell they were - Lucifer banishes his daughter to fend for herself in the demon-infested realms of Hell. Meanwhile, h...
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Might Raise A Wry Grin... 0
What an odd publication this is. Having seen the conflicting responses the recent `X-Women` comic got, I had to give this a look to see how Marvel sexed-up characters nearly 20 years ago. However, really this is more a parody than a glamorous set of pin-up art. It`s a magazine-sized publication and is a take on glossy mags like Sports Illustrated. The contents are based on an apparent sports event hosted by tycoon, Tony Stark - The Super Olympics. And we get a rundown of the results from this fa...
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 0
Whoa! 25 years since this came out, it was a favourite between me and my mates back then.... `Day of the Dead` is the third film in George A. Romero`s chilling zombie series. Following on from Dawn of the Dead, Romero excelled his budget to make this for a whopping $3.5 million. In a world being rapidly taken over by flesh-eating zombies, a group of survivors are holding out in an vast underground complex... The survivors consist of some particularly anti-social soldiers, a helicopter pilot ...
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And so, it begins... 1
This is fast becoming one of my favourite titles, and I just had to check out the opener - So, the first installment of what is to become (if it isn`t already) a classic horror comic series... Injured in the line of duty, policeman Rick Grimes wakes in a deserted hospital - deserted of the living, that is - after a near escape from a canteen full of zombies, Rick cycles home. His house is deserted but he does bump into two other survivors, Morgan Jones and small son, Duane, who put him in the pi...
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 0
`Beowulf meets Predator` screams one poster for this movie, and if you`ve seen either of those two, you`ll get the basic concept of this one - it`s a sci-fi fantasy action flick. Our hero, Kainan is collecting bodies (including that of his family) after a huge conflict with the Moorwen monsters, before his spaceship crashes to Earth, in 709AD Norway. Aboard the craft, is a stowaway Moorwen. The released Moorwen causes havoc and bloodshed amongst the local Viking community. And, Kainan, after gai...
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Dead Good 0
I know this series has been running some time now, but I`d never read any until I got hold of this collection one afternoon. The story takes place some time after a zombie apocolypse - yep, the dead have risen to feast on the living. As I say, the series has been running some time already, but the plot is such (group of strangers band together in a world of zombies) that new readers won`t have any bother picking up the thread. The thing about `The Walking Dead` is, or certainly this collection, ...
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Dracula Add-On... 0
(((SPOILERS AHOY!!))) In case you didn`t know, Stoker never wrote a work called `Death Ship`. The title, and this comic, refers to five pages or so in Stoker`s vampire classic `Dracula`. Count Dracula`s journey to England, from Eastern Europe, on board the schooner Demeter. He hides aboard the ship in a coffin full of his native Carpathian soil, and picks off the crew, nightly... It`s an interesting bit of the story that Stoker explains as excepts from the Captain`s Log... Anyhow, this is writer...
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Saucy and...Silly Yarn 0
Hmm, ok. I wasn`t quite sure what to make of this comic, I felt as if I`d been privy to some sweaty Charlie`s Angels fantasy Chris Claremont had had one night after too much seafood, and then set down on paper. I mean what was he thinking? Don`t get me wrong, sexy stuff in comics don`t mind me a bit, but...I think I`m more irked that the characters here seem so out of place in this saucy romp. `X-Women` is so unX-Men... I can`t help but wonder what audience this is targeted for, is it `one...
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Twists and surprises, but vampire mystery lacks `bite`... 1
I was nearly giving up on this series, but something is keeping me reading. True, this third installment was a little more interesting. At least they`ve stopped all that blah, blah about racing steamboats... This issue was a little darker, Abner`s investigation of Joshua`s cabin and Joshua `coming clean` so to speak, was interesting. At last we had it out in the open - Joshua York is hunting vampires, and the boat `Fevre Dream` is his fortress in his campaign against nosferatu! That in itself wa...
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Answer The Call! 0
This comic actually scared me, that last page broke me out in goosebumps - wicked!! A Lovecraft reader and Call of Cthulhu RPGer of old, this was a title I`d been looking out for, and boy, I wasn`t disappointed... I don`t want to give too much away - because it is a joy(?) to read - this tale gets creepier and creepier. A cruise liner has been discovered with the entire passengers and crew of nearly two thousand people, dead from brain damage. But it`s the investigation by Clayton Diggs that h...
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A Squire`s Tale 0
In this second part of Boom!`s adaptation of Robert E. Howard`s story, the main character, Cormac, doesn`t really have much of a part. The issue opens with Cormac rescuing a man hanging from a gibbet - after slaying his Saracen captor. Cormac recognizes the rescued man as Michael Deblois, squire of his (now slain) friend and former employer, the knight Gerard. We then have several pages of the comic in which Michael relates his sorry tale, which I won`t dwell on, but involves the tragic love of ...
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Snikt! Snikt! 2
Whoa-ho-ho! What a headrush that was! I can almost smell the cordite and blood... This issue ROCKS!! I was always a fan of all things X-Men, but returning after years in Comic-Book-Wilderness, I`ve been casting a cynical eye over these new-fangled comic publications. I knew little of the whole X-Force thing, so what better than issue#1 of this story-arc to have a look... Bloody Hell! What have I been missing?? It didn`t take me long to get into the picture: This Domino character appears to have ...
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"The Gentleman`s Name Is Magneto..." 0
What Doc Doom is to the FF, what the Green Goblin is to Spider-man, Magneto surely is to the X-Men, and these two forces meet in this glorious battle-issue. What a great period of this series it was (the best, in my opinion), the `new` X-Men were just coming into their own and that Claremont/Byrne/Austin team were coming out with some classic stuff. This story takes place immediately after a superb issue with the Beast`s failed rescue attempt after his mutant buddies had been turned into carniv...
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD Movie Review 1
I`d been looking forward to this movie for ages and just missed it at the cinema. So, over the moon when it came out on disc, and I wasn`t disappointed. Excellent. The Wolfman is a retelling of the famous 1940s werewolf movie. Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, an actor who returns to his ancestral home in England to investigate the brutal death of his brother - apparently, savaged by an escaped lunatic... There is obviously alot more to the death than meets the eye, and there`s plenty of m...
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Diabolical plans - the evil cad! 0
This issue came out in December 1979, just as the `70s was ending. Maybe the martial arts craze was very much a thing of that time, but after reading this it seems a pity this volume didn`t continue much longer... Superheroes are cool but occasionally I like to try something different. Reading this I felt a pang of nostalgia for adventure stories, like pulp fiction of the `30s and rousing Boy`s Own adventure yarns. I always felt Master of Kung-Fu was like that, and this issue is typical of such....
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Captain Bintang`s Night-In-With-A-DVD movie review 0
"There was a time..." growls the narrator over the opening scenes "...when the World was plunged into darkness and chaos, a time of witchcraft and sorcery, a time when no one stood against evil..." Solomon Kane is a hack and slay actioner, and a story of redemption with the message: Sometimes violence is the answer. The film opens with piratical English soldier, Kane, chopping his way through a Moorish castle on the North African coast... "Dogs!" hack! slash! "Putrid heathens" etc,etc... But, a...
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Out With A Bang For Max`s Dawn Of The Dead...? 0
"I told ya babe..." says one character "...ain`t nothin` gonna tear us apart "....before that`s exactly what does happen in blood-splattered fashion... Yay! It`s zombie time! Hey, ok, maybe I was a little indifferent about the first issue, but sticking with it, by the end of Part Four I quite enjoyed this...The main thing is, the events of this four-parter all take place over one night. It`s fast-paced so dragging it out over four months takes some of the edge off it. Read them all in one sitti...
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Phwoar! Don`t Get Many Of Them To The Pound! heh,heh,heh... 0
I always quite liked the Cavewoman comics, I found them cheeky, saucy, fun and just generally different to the usual horror and superhero stuff that I`d usually read. The first I ever read was 1999`s `Cavewoman Color Special`, the Meriem of this was a cute, doe-eyed girl of normal proportions. Since then I`ve seen various artists style Meriem from Paul Renard`s glamorous penciling to Devon Massey`s saucy, buxom cartooning... Now, Rob Durham`s fantastical, erotically charged Meriem of gigantic en...
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Skip This Bounty... 0
I suppose this type of tale would be described as `gritty` or `brutal`, the movie trailer would be voiced by a gravely-voiced 60-a-day man. Alas, I`d describe it as `cheesy` and a movie would probably make a better adaptation than a comic-book... Sorry, wasn`t too overwhelmed with Boom!`s `Pale Horse` - isn`t that some Biblical reference? ...Death came riding on a pale horse...or some such phrase, although I`d guess they grabbed it from the Clint Eastwood movie and not The Good Book. This is the...
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No French She-Knight 0
Robert E. Howard is creator of several well-known fantasy heroes, Conan being the most famous, King Kull and Solomon Kane significant others. Howard`s name on the title page was what drew my attention to this publication with it`s typically Conanesque cover art. The star of this issue is one of Howard`s lesser known adventurers, Cormac Fitzgeoffrey, a tall, dark and scowling Irishman. The story is set not in some mythical, fantasy land but set in Turkey in 1190AD during The Crusades when Christi...
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A Lesson In Shi`ar Theology... 0
Ok, this issue wraps up the Date Night storyline, wraps up a few loose ends and sets up another storyarc. One of two spells of action, sees SHIELD capture the mutant, Elliot Boggs - who is then delivered into the hands of Professor X. The other is Sabretooth and Wolverine`s continuing showdown... The core of the issue is Lilandra explaining the religion of The Church of Shi`ar Enlightenment. Fortunately, this is done clearly and no-nonsense, so doesn`t bore the pants off the reader... The res...
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Consistently Riveting... 0
I don`t think I`ve read a bad issue from this series. It changes writers and artists occasionally but the stories remain excellent, the Ultimate Universe is just a great reworking of some of Marvel`s greatest characters and plots. I can`t get enough of it... Firstly, in this issue, the artwork by Tom Raney is once again exceptional - I love his portrayal of the X-Men - Sabretooth`s face-off with Logan in the pouring rain is done superbly. There are a few shocks in store in this one, and sex and ...
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Passions Running High In Westchester... 0
The last of this series I read was issue 26, so I`d missed quite a chunk of the saga before I picked it up again with this one... The X-Men are taking some time out after a series of typically dangerous adventures (we`re informed in the foreward), and love is in the air...oh gawd, an issue like this would normally have me fleeing in horror, please! Spare me from the romances of superheroes - I just don`t care! okay??!! But no...the scenes, particularly Jean and Scott`s date to the cinema are so ...
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Mississippi Vampire Mystery Rolls On Down The River... 0
Louisiana seems to be a magnet for vampire tales, certainly Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris have found success with their stories there, and if theres something I`ve got out of this series so far - its too search out the book this comic is based on. But I don`t know if that`s a good thing, I feel I may get more out of the book than this adaptation. Avatar`s Fevre Dream just hasn`t quite clicked with me yet... Sure, the story does seem to be getting more intriguing. What is the real purpose of Jos...
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Faithful Adaptation Of Stoker`s Vampire Classic 0
Over the years Bram Stoker`s novel, Dracula and the titular character, Count Dracula have had numerous re-workings and adaptations in comic-book form and on screen. Having read the book a couple of times myself and being a fan of horror, vampires, werewolves and the like, this `new` adaptation of Dracula by Marvel caught my attention... Firstly, its not `new`. This series was originally serialized in the `70s black and white magazine format publication `Dracula Lives`. Marvel has coloured and re...
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Bullseye`s Big Job 0
"I have a gift for murder. And a determination that borders on derangement" says Bullseye. Nice to see this character here, I don`t know if Bullseye and Punisher have met up before but really they seem meant for each other... The opening scene, we`re shown just how deranged Bullseye is in his commitment to the cause - he`s a hired killer who always gets his man - (SPOILER COMING) when walking into his target`s secure hideout, he allows himself to be stripped naked. Complaining of bad guts, his c...
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Doom Unmasked! 0
Phew! I`ve been reading so much of this new-fangled modern stuff recently (even comics from this year - good grief, whatever next?) I thought I`d slip back into the relatively halcyon calm of the Bronze Age... So I drew out this one - Stan Lee! John Buscema! Thor! Doc Doom! - I`m sold. A classic story starts here, with the mighty Thor`s clash with wicked villain and monarch, Doctor Doom...Doctor Doom has kidnapped French scientist, Professor Lefarge, forcing him to work on missile silos in the k...
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Prelude To War 0
This is the first Lady Death comic I`ve ever read, and I really don`t know much about the character. Although come the end of this issue I`d pretty much picked up the thread. This story opens in medieval times, 1226AD, after a race of evil-albino types, The Eldritch have been banished in some previous battle, to the realm of Aglarond - oh dear, this all sounds a bit Lord of the Rings don`t it? As I say, I know nothing of Lady Death but gathered all this from the first few pages of this opening ...
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Preview? Pin-Up? What Is This? 0
Just `read` this, although reading isn`t truly what you could do with this...this...pamphlet. A couple of panels in, I suddenly realised this wasn`t a comic at all. Or, rather a comic of a collection of previews of forth-coming Lady Death publications. We have the opening (?) pages of three different issues - Lady Death Annual#1, Lady Death:Blacklands and Lady Death:Merciful Fate. Oh. So, its not a comic you can sit down and enjoy as a story, or installment of an ongoing story, its just...previe...
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A Comic Of Two Halves 0
Yeah, alright already - I know we`ve moved on and Spidey now is facing up to Kraven, but I`ve been catching up on a few recent issues and it was this one I read late last night... My first reaction was great! They`ve changed the artist! The opening pages were very good, Emma Rios` style is a vast improvement on the previous issue. An exciting start too - the encounter between Kaine and this Ana girl had a definite sinister touch. Yep, it was all looking two thumbs up, and then.... oh.He`s bac...
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