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Doesn’t that title look like the kind of football scoreline where the losing side ends up promising to refund their supporters for the cost of tickets and travel…? ;o) Sorry, yesterday was a busy one as well as being far too hot to be so busy. The kind of day where you go for a hospital appointment and the nurse taking your blood pressure asks if it’s normally that low. For the record, the nurse tried taking it again but the second one was worse and she decided to just stick with the first reading… Anyway :o) By the time I made it home last night, I wasn’t much use for anything but these two comics were waiting for me so I was able to end the day on a fairly decent note; one comfy chair and a couple of comics that I’d been looking forward to finally reading. Let me tell you a bit about them… ‘Conan the Barbarian’ #31 – Zub, Braithwaite, Rodriguez (Titan Comics, Heroic Signatures) Remember when I said that I really needed to go back and find a copy of #29 , just to find out exactly why ...

This weekend didn’t involve much reading at all… It did involve a picnic, flying a kite, watching ‘Superstore’ (again), getting beaten at Uno (again, again and again...) and falling asleep when I really should have stayed awake. Reading though, not so much. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, I’ll just have to try harder this week ;o) It’s me doing the talking though so there was a little reading that happened around the edges of all the other stuff. And it absolutely won’t surprise you, in the least, to hear that is was all about ‘Conan’, ‘Event Horizon’ and a little Warhammer 40K to round things off. They were all quick reads so it’s very much a ‘quick thoughts’ kind of post today, hope you don’t mind… ‘Event Horizon: Inferno’ #2 – Ward, Carey, Honchar (ID Dark) It feels like an absolute age since I picked up #1 (it has only been a few weeks but damn, the time hasn’t exactly flown…) so I tried #2, promptly went back for a re-read of #1 and then tackled #2 again. It all made a li...

As a rule, I normally stay out of the centre of London when it’s Marathon Day; nothing against the Marathon, I’m just not keen on fighting my way through the crowds, that’s why I do all my Christmas shopping online these days. With that in mind then, why did yesterday see me in town, fighting my way through ‘Post-Marathon’ crowds? Because apparently, I’m the kind of person who won’t even listen to my own advice… Yep, it went about as well as ‘more sensible me’ thought it would. If I start talking about Christmas Shopping on Oxford Street, take me to one side and have a word? Anyway… Birthday shopping, for my eldest, took me into Forbidden Planet; once I’d fought my way past the Manga shelves, the comic book shelves persuaded me to stick around for a while. Not that I needed much persuading… So, here’s what I bought and here’s what I thought of it. ‘Alien: King Killer #1’ – Ahmed, Nieto, Atiyeh, Cowles (Marvel) Whenever I’m in Forbidden Planet, I like to take a chance on a comic book th...

  Today’s post will be shorter than normal, yesterday was a bit intense in places so, erm… yeah :o) There may be another post today, lets see how it goes. Anyway… As someone who normally goes for the trades (my memory for collecting single issues is atrocious), I’m feeling a little bit pleased with myself that I managed to collect all five issues of ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent’; one after the other as well. It was ‘Event Horizon’ though so of course I was going to make sure I got the whole story. And on the whole, ‘Dark Descent’ has been a welcome return to the setting, promising good things from the ‘Event Horizon’ sequel (more comic books, not another film) that is due out this year. How would it all end though? Especially given that ‘Dark Descent’ is a prequel and we know what’s coming… Well, I’m kind of ‘half and half’ about the whole thing… With Captain Kilpack dead, only two sane crew-members of the ‘Event Horizon’ remain and their mission is clear. Stop the ship from retu...

I was going to say that I wasn’t sure how it happened but… I know exactly what happened :o) I returned to work, a few weeks ago, and then I had to sort myself out for Christmas. Nothing that I couldn’t handle but there was only room in my brain for so much so I totally forgot to keep on with my streak of buying single issue comics. Not the worst thing in the world and it ended up not really mattering anyway; I went to Forbidden Planet and found everything I needed anyway (still forgot to pick up ‘Conan the Barbarian #27’ though, stupid brain fog...) Sometimes it pays not to follow the ‘usual series’ too closely ;o) Anyway, a slightly different post from normal… With a couple of the titles, I’ll be doing ‘two issues in one’ (as it were). I’m still up to date with ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent’ so, lets start there first… ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #4’ – Ward, Jones, Martin (ID Dark) ‘Event Horizon’ is a movie that just loves to get right in your face and shock; one of those moments (t...

I’ve got a few bits and pieces to sort out, over the next couple of days, so content here may be a little lighter than normal. And yep, I made a pretty big assumption, about the state of my regular content, in that opening sentence ;o) Anyway… I did a spot of Christmas shopping, the other day, and made a quick detour to pick the shelves (at Forbidden Planet) clean of some comics that I’d been waiting on. Look at me being all efficient, getting two things done in one trip ;o) Here’s some quick thoughts on the first couple of comics from that little haul… ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2’ – Ward, Jones, Martin (ID Dark) The ‘Event Horizon’ continues its journey through chaos and most of the crew are now dead. The survivors must deal with Paimon having arrived on board as well as his twisted creations and the secrets of the crew, suddenly brought to awful life… Well, damn… Every time I think that things cannot get worse for the crew of the ‘Event Horizon’, they promptly go and get worse ...

I’m quite happy to have my blood tested, more than happy in fact, it’s just unfortunate that I’m not so happy about having blood taken out of me to be tested… You can’t have one without the other though so I just have to look the other way while they stick the needle in my arm. That’s what I did yesterday afternoon and I sweetened the deal, for myself, by promising myself a trip to Forbidden Planet afterwards. Just for a couple of comics (which turned into a couple of comics and Book 1 of ‘Bug Wars’, I should have known really…) I’ll tell you about ‘Bug Wars’ another time, maybe tomorrow or the day after, for now, we’re all about the couple of comics that I picked up. The plan was to grab copies of ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2’ and ‘Skinbreaker #2’; the title of the post shows a 50% success rate which isn’t too bad I guess, I really should pay more attention to release dates and such. Anyway, on with the comics… ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2’ – Ward, Jones, Martin (ID Dark) The ‘E...

Today is a day in the office and there’s a fair bit to get through (and by a ‘fair bit’, I mean… loads) so while I try and get my head round that, have some quick thoughts on some bits and pieces that I’ve been reading and watching. ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1’ – Ward, Jones, Martin’ (ID Dark) In 2040, the Starship Event Horizon disappeared on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri. Seven years later, it reappeared, its crew all dead. This is the story of what happened… I love ‘Event Horizon’ (you knew that already though) and had more or less got used to the idea that not only will we never see the full directors cut, there’s pretty much no more story left to tell. The ending is pretty final ;o) Well, luckily, Christian Ward had other ideas and has taken the tale back to way before Dr. Weir boarded the ‘Lewis & Clark’ to go on a rescue mission. I had no idea this comic was a thing so when I saw it in Forbidden Planet, I was all over it. And… Famous last words, and all that, but...