Superheroes

No more heroes - graphic novels

Edinburgh International Book Festival

22 Jul 2008

The Book Festival is once again acknowledging the rapid expansion in graphic novels. Henry Northmore chats to a number of comic book guys (and girl) to ask what the future may hold for the superhero While graphic novels may be still be a minority…

Stranger in a strange land

17 Jul 2008

Amazingly, Strange & Stranger is the first critical retrospective of the life and work of legendary American comic book artist Steve Ditko. The shy son of Eastern European immigrants who was born in Pennsylvania in 1927 may have languished in relative…

The Punisher, third verse same as the first?

27 Sep 2007

After Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane singularly failed to bring the charisma of the Punisher to the screen, Hollywood has decided to have another shot. The Lundgren version was just ridiculous and the Jane incarnation was so unremittingly vicious…

Shazam, p’tang, yang, kipperbang and also the Rock

27 Sep 2007

There is no reason for that headline other than the fact I have always wanted to reference that particular film and the Rock is going to be in the adaptation of Shazam!. But the twist, the delicious twist, is that he’s going to allow the fans to…

Spider-Man 3

(12A) 156min

23 Apr 2007

`SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ Writer/director Sam Raimi’s third and (alleged) final film outing with the New York dwelling arachnid superhero is a hit and miss affair which still manages to…

Comics - Spider-Man Family 1 & 2

Various

23 Apr 2007

SUPERHERO Some may call it cynical marketing that Spider-Man is ‘back in black’ just as the new film hits the screens, but hey he looks cool as hell so we’ll forgive Marvel. Spider-Man Family is the latest monthly to hit the shelves, an anthology…