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  Behold a most perfect together of pop culture wonderfulness! It has been announced, no doubt from an orbiting battle cruiser somewhere high above Tattoine that Little Golden Books, that bastion of imaginative childrens’ storytelling in very small packaging, will be soon be journeying to a galaxy far, far away, Continue Reading

  Grief is often an all-consuming state. No matter how we try to lift ourselves out of it, it pulls us back in, unwilling to let us go from the misery, pain and agony of things lost, never to be regained. Or at least, regained in the form in which we Continue Reading

  I never fail to be amazed at the way true artists like TigerTomato manage to take my favourite breakfast food ever, the humble though delicious pancake – yeah sorry Sultana Bran but you’re not even in the running – and turn it into visually-delighting works of art. Because, my Continue Reading

  It’s not all that often that beautiful songs find themselves recreated as a exquisitely-realised piece of comic book art, which is a pity when you think about it because the two share of the same richly-descriptive DNA. Some, realised Sean Edgar of Paste Magazine one cold December morning in Continue Reading

  Happy birthday Back to the Future! The much-loved, near-perfect trilogy, crafted by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, about one young man, his idiosyncratic Professor friend and a time-traveling DeLorean, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – the first film came out in 1985 – and to celebrate IDW is Continue Reading

  There’s a well-established pattern in movies especially, but also TV shows and books, that while humans may perish and drop like flies, dogs will soldier on unaffected. It’s not always the case of course – for every Boomer (Independence Day), there’s – SPOILER! – often a Samantha (I am Continue Reading

  Fairy tales have a tumultuous and fragile history. They originated as tales told by “folk”. They were passed down over generations to while away long winter nights, to provide entertainment at special occasions and for simple enjoyment. Inevitably, as more people became literate and scholars began to record fairy Continue Reading

  It’s worth asking in today’s information-saturated world, where everyone from the local deli operator to the highest earning CEO has an opinion and isn’t afraid to share it, how well we actually know the people around us. We would all like to think of course that we know our Continue Reading

  Let’s be honest – who of us hasn’t walked into the bathroom and wondered what the hell that reflective slab of wall is in front of us, in which is imprisoned an unsettlingly eerie likeness of ourselves? Hands up! Oh, just me? Right, moving on … But wait, you must have Continue Reading

  Ask any writer and they will tell you that the seemingly mundane act of putting pen to paper, whether literally or figuratively, can often seem quite magical and strangely supernatural. Characters seem to come alive and talk to you, as real as your physical friends and family, demanding to Continue Reading