While the fantastical has become the dominant form of genre entertainment for children, for adults science fiction and horror have remained the prevailing forms. Despite the superficial similarities
Through the late sixties and early seventies, horror was a genre in transition. While Britain remained in the comparatively genteel but fading grasp of Hammer and its sibling
According to the blurb, Phillip Blake (“the Governor,” although anyone who doesn’t know that will probably not be particularly interested in this book) is an “uber-villain” who runs
It often seems like comic books these days are devouring themselves, and at an unsustainable rate. The hegemony of the Big Two, and their number one product, nostalgia,
How do you sum up fifty years of travel, adventure and excitement, troubles and conflicts, hopes and disappointments, with clarity and context, in just over three hundred pages?
Genre has always been looked down upon by the establishment, science fiction a ghetto occupied by fanciful writers of whimsy, horror regarded as lower still, lurid and base,
The dark world. With a subtitle like that, a scholarly dissertation may begin by looking at the different connotations of the word dark, and how the meanings may
With over three hundred editions produced during the fourteen year run from 1970 to 1984, BBC’s Play for Today strand was conceived as immediate and contemporary, offering political
Despite their erratic timeline and release pattern, the forthcoming release of X Men: Days of Future Past will be the seventh entry in that franchise in fourteen years,
