Renegade Nell – Spoiler light TV Review.

Original Release on Disney+
29th March 2024 – 8 Episodes
Created by Sally Wainwright
Starring:
Louisa Harland as Nell Jackson
Nick Mohammed as Billy Blind
Adrian Lester as Earl of Poynton
Bo Bragason as Roxy Jackson
Florence Keen as George Jackson
Enyi Okoronkwo as Rasselas
Frank Dillane as Charles Devereux
Alice Kremelberg as Sofia Wilmot
Jake Dunn as Thomas Blancheford
Joely Richardson as Lady Eularia Moggerhanger
Iz Hesketh as Valerian
Craig Parkinson as Sam Totter
Pip Torrens as Lord Blancheford

From the Writer of Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax, Sally Wainwright.

An 8 part series dropped on Disney+ on 29th March 2024. Produced by Lookout Point, a division of BBC which produced all of Sally Wainwright’s biggest titles.

It received publicity from shows such as Graham Norton Show in UK when Adrian Lester was a guest on his sofa. So I am assuming quote a buzz around it.

It was billed as a story about a female highwayman with some other-worldly powers.

Falcon issue 1 – spoiler free Comic Review

Published by Sentinel Publications

Edited by Ed Doyle and Alan Holloway.

Creators include: Paul Spence Stephen Matthews, Graham Puttock, Paul ‘Deadeye’ Dick, Jack Bates, Laurence Allison, Pete Howard, Rob Anthony, David Metcalfe-Carr, Morgan Gleave, Stephen White, David Hitchcock, Michael Powell, Gavin Pollock, Garry Wharton, Andy Hayes, Christoff Rodríguez, Andrea Bormida, Grant Richards, Andy Smith, Patrick Brown, Dan Pollard, Dan Goodfellow, Michael Carroll, Jo Bramwell Slingsby, Gary Whitlock

I backed this on Kickstarter and my copy arrived earlier this week.

This is a tabloid sized comic, that’s the size of a Newspaper. There have been many comics of that size in the past. Topper was a popular kids comic that was that size when I was a child. Eagle was that size in 1950s in the UK, as were comics such as Donald and Mickey in USA.

Sentinel Publications also publish Sentinel, a pocket sized comic with a 64 page single story. That is another traditional size of UK Comic, similar examples are Commando.

So with this Sentinel are hitting more nostalgic tones.

So what is Falcon? There are a few peview images from the Kickdtarter campaign at the end of the article.

Madame Webb – movie review – spoiler light

CAST
Dakota Johnson
Sydney Sweeney
Isabela Merced
Celeste O’Connor
Tahar Rahim
Mike Epps
Emma Roberts
Adam Scott

CREDITS
DIRECTED BY: SJ Clarkson
SCREENPLAY BY: Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless and Claire Parker & SJ Clarkson
STORY BY: Kerem Sanga and Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless
PRODUCED BY: Lorenzo di Bonaventura
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Adam Merims, SJ Clarkson, Claire Parker

Madame Web was created by Dennis O’Neil and John Romita Jr.

It is a bit late in the day for a review really, this film has dropped out of my usual Cinema so I had to go in to the city centre to see it.

I intended going earlier but things kept coming up.

I don’t know much about this character from the original source material. For me it has always been a bit peripheral.

Not knowing much was freeing in a way. When a character I know well is adapted for the screen I bring preconceptions. It was nice to have few for a change.

I mean, I do know who she is and the general gist of Madame Web in Marvel comics. But let’s use Star Lord as an example. They used the name I know but a rebooted comic version I don’t. So my preconception was slightly off even though others may have found theirs more closely matched. Antman, i only ever knew the Pugh version. Still not got over what him n Wasp did to T’chala in the first Marvel Zombies mini series!

My idea of a Spoiler is more fussy and small than what others think. Below to me there are some Spoilers but as the film has been out a while I think they’ll probably already be out in the wild.

Essential Rogue Trooper – spoiler light preview GN Reprints

• CREATIVE TEAM: Gerry Finley-Day (writer) Dave Gibbons, Colin Wilson, Cam Kennedy, Brett Ewins (art) Bill Nuttall (letters)
• RELEASE DATE: 26 March
• PAPERBACK, 160 pages
• PRICE: £21.99
• ISBN: 9781837861088

Edit: Colours may be from the IDW reprints where colours were by Adrian Salmon. I received this tip from a well known hoarder of 2000AD facts, Mac Mac Anorak. I’m leaving credits as per the copy I’ve received but thought this would be of interest. Cheers Mac!

Reprinting stories that include the first appearance in Prog 228 and popular stories such as All Quiet on Dix-I Front this graphic novel will whet the appetite for the upcoming movie based on Rogue Trooper.

I’ve not yet written anything about the movie that’s now in Post Production. I’ve been awaiting it with much anticipation and listening to all the good rumours. Far too many wrong rumours out there about things, there’s an article in that actually.

Stay tuned as I will write about the movie before it is out, possibly more than once.

So, who is Rogue Trooper and what’s the story about?

Some preview pages at the end of the article.

Unit 666 #1 – Graphic Novel Review – Spoiler light.

Unit 666 – Volume One
Published by Pig Dog Press

Graphic Novel
76 Pages

Writer: Noel K. Hannan

Artists: Warwick Fraser-Coombe, Neil ‘Bhuna’ Roche, Bill Stories, Andrw Sawyers, Derek Gray, Chris Askham & Lyndon Webb 

Letters & Book Design: Bhuna

Created by Noel K Hannnan. Warwick Fraser-Combe and Neil Roche

Covers:
Top – Standard Cover: Warwick Fraser-Combe
Middle – Variant: Patrick Goddard
Bottom – Variant: Steve Austin

I backed this book on Kickstarter. I’d scheduled doing a Review tonight and by coincidence my copy arrived today in the post. My Review was from a Pdf copy.

I’ve read books by several creators in this line-up. Met many at Conventions, Andrw Sawyers has  been a Guest on a Panel I’ve Moderated.

So I had a good idea of what I was backing.

Covers include variants from 2000AD Artists Patrick Goddard and Steve Austin.

I’ve included the Contents Page as a teaser at the end of the review. And I think it is safe to say #2 is on the way.

Bonefish – Live Music at Leeds Modernians – review

I saw Bonefish last night, Saturday 24th Feb 24, at Leeds Modernians Rugby Club.

They came highly recommended by Dave Lowe who booked them for the Club. I’m not a member of the Club but my Son’s In-Laws are and we’d discussed this night last Month at my Son’s wedding.

So it was a planned family night our for me with my Son and Daughter-in-Law and her family.

Bonefish are a three piece band from Whitby doing covers of Rock and Punk through the ages.

My Approach to Previews/Reviews of Comics

On this Blog. and others in the past, I have reviewed a wide range of things.

Predominantly I write Previews or Reviews of Comics. I’ve also Previewed/Reviewed Novels and Factual Books. I’ve reviewed Film and TV – the first Review I wrote was for Dredd(2012). I’ve reviewed shorts that are on YouTube. I’ve reviewed Live Music, Dancing, Museum Interpretations, Jousts, etc.

Writing Reviews has opened many interesting avenues. From being a Guest at a Pre Joust banquet to being a Moderator at Comic Cons (in person and online). I’ve been asked by Actors, Writers and BBC Producers to write Reviews.

This Blog also has Stories and Poems I’ve written as well as Op Eds about History, Nature, Science, Mental Health.

This article deals with what I look for when I am deciding what the Preview or Review in the Comic world. It will also deal a little with how I put an article together. I am possibly going to write articles about how I deal with other topics in another article.

Doctor Who: Nemesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Nemesis of the Daleks

Published by: Panini Comics

ISBN: 9781846535314

Copyright: BBC, Terry Nation

Pages: 196

Contents: Reprints from Doctor Who Weekly 17-20, 27-30, Doctor Who Monthly 44-46, Doctor Who Magazine 152-156, 159-166 and The Incredible Hulk Presents 1-12

This reprint volume features one of my all time favourites from reading Doctor Who Comics – Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer.

The full book is a stellar line up of Comic talent. All behind a cover by David Roach, coloured by James Offredi.

The reprints here span a number of name changes for the Doctor Who Comic launched in 1979 by Marvel UK. Now published under licence from BBC by Panini Comics. There is a detailed history of Doctor Who Comics from Marvel and transferring to Panini at the end of this book. There are also articles about Abslom Daak and each story individually has a mini article each.

I unashamedly bought this for the Abslom Daak stories that are reprinted here.

Looking on Kickstarter

I’ve backed quite a few successful projects on Kickstarter. I took a break but I’ve backed a few recently again.

My recent activity include backing some D&D inspired Art that includes an open licence, a new broadsheet Anthology Comic and the latest instalment of Death Sentence by Monty Nero.

My Relationship with Doctor Who

The TV show Doctor Who will be 60 in 2023. First airing on BBC1 on Saturday 23rd November 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in USA.

I was born in 1967 and my parents had been watching Doctor Who from the start.

So along with the much of the UK in the years as I grew up I watched Doctor Who every Saturday evening, through Autumn and Winter. Through the 60s and 70s Doctor Who had audience’s ranging from 6 to 10 million – airing at Tea Time, before the prime time.

My early memories if Doctor Who are vague. I am currently rewatching all available  epsisodes of the original series on BritBox. This article is about my earlier experiences of Doctor Who.