William Blain, the Comics Wizard of Gourock

  Image taken from This Was The Wizard , courtesy of Down The Tubes Eventually Willie Blain became Managing Editor of all of the Thomson lin...

Black Panthers and Ape Lords

I had a feeling Black Panther would be my favourite Marvel film for a while now. The first trailer indicated to me that this was going to b...

Dinosaurs from the Pulps!

One of the joys of getting into Robert E. Howard fandom is the vast world it opens up before you. Before I got into it, I relied mostly on l...

Terrible Steeds

 A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal pl...

Bite-Sized Blog: Weird Science Could Have Been Great

Yes, the '80s remake madness continues as John Hughes's strangest film (apparently loosely adapted from Al Feldstein's "Ma...

Abraham Merritt, Metal Master

She stood before us, shielding us. One golden call she sent. I looked back into the darkness. Something like an enormous, dimly shimmering r...