(courtesy IMP Awards) Got relationship troubles? Is your life feeling directionless and uninspired? Failing to realise your true potential? We’ve all been there in one way or another, and while the solution to your relational and existential woes may seem elusive, have you perhaps considered the zombie apocalypse as the Continue Reading
Halloween 2024
Post Halloween book review: Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
If you have ever watched a slasher flick – think the Scream series or the Halloween franchise starring Jamie Lee Curtis to name just two of many – you will be well acquainted with the prevailing tropes and cliches of the genre. Eminently disposable characters suddenly find themselves stalked and Continue Reading
Halloween graphic novel review: The Stuff of Legend – Book 2: The Jungle by Mike Raight and Brian Smith with illustrations by Charles Paul Wilson III
Being afraid of the dark is one of those thing childish things we re supposed to put aside as we grow older. After all, the idea that evil and terrible things lurk in the places where there is no light, where our view is limited or outright obscured, is surely Continue Reading
Velma: This halloween needs to be more special! … and thoughts on seasons 1 and 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) VELMA 2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL SNAPSHOTWith just 24 hours to bring Velma back, the friends search for a dark spellbook while trying to avoid the wrath of a vengeful spirit. But as the annual Sexy Halloween party nears, Velma and the gang must face their biggest fears… if Continue Reading
Deep TBR Halloween book review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
(courtesy Argyll Productions) If you have ever seen a medieval battle scene where an army of armour and arrows and trebuchets (great big wooden slingy things) is laying siege to a walled city or castle, you will be well acquainted with how these conflicts generally go. There are lots of Continue Reading
Scary haha! Triple animated Halloween specials review – Family Guy, Sing and Bad Guys
(via Shutterstock) Get ready to be scared! Or amused! Or both? Being animated specials aimed mostly, but not exclusively – see special #1 for example – at kids, the scares, such as they are, are lighthearted and funny, the perfect way to celebrate Halloween if, like this reviewer, you are Continue Reading