Tv wise- 'Torchwood: Children of Earth' aka the five part mini-series that is Season III is superb. Delivering far more than promised and certainly proving a point myself and some friends have made repeatedly, that Russell T Davies is far better a writer and story-teller when someone reigns him in and actually forces him to write as opposed to ( Read more... )

So, it's been announced that Chris Claremont is to return to the X-books and write an alt-universe X-book that will pick up from where he left off in 1991 with X-men # 3. Cute ( Read more... )

Yeah, once I saw that name in the credits of the latest episode of FRINGE, I knew what the sneaky bastards were up to. And it all clicked into place too, after the Clint Howard-tastic guest spot in the previous episode where Clint, who had been a child actor, just like brother Ron, and had actually been in an episode of the original 1960's tv show ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the surprisingly excellent 'Unscheduled Stop' ASM two-parter by Mark Waid and incredible art talent Marcos Martin. As a stand-alone story it is terrific, with drama, pathos, Spidey at his most noble, a slimy super-villain and excellent characterisation of special guest-star ( Read more... )

RIP, Chris: You made us believe a man could fly.


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I'm almost there and, sure enough, I feel like a woman must feel at the end of a pregnancy: wanting to have the damn baby already and enough with the waddling around and the sore back. Not that I can truly compare my creative deliberations and impatience with having my stomach stretched out and a parasitic organism attaching an umbilical cord to my ( Read more... )

It's easy to feel clever and thrilled with one's own cleverness. And then you remember that Mozart was composing symphonies when he was in the womb. Sigh ( Read more... )

Hello all, here's a piece from my upcoming new book, 'The Better Part of Love', which is a short story collection with all the stories looking at different aspects of love and relationships. I've tried to get a nice broad spectrum of types of stories, approaches, techniques and moods. With everything from old friendships, war-time camaraderie ( Read more... )

You know something? Fuck them. Fuck all of them ( Read more... )