The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/Jun 2017, Volume 132 # 731...
This third issue of ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ for 2017 lacks any novellas but makes up for their absence with four novelettes, seven short stories, a poem and all the usual...
View ArticleBack Issue # 98 August 2017 (magazine review)
This issue of ‘Back Issue’ is devoted to DC Comics material with an enormous 21 pages devoted to their 50 issue ‘Secret Origins’ title by John Wells and, more importantly, at the end which characters...
View ArticleComic Book Creator #15 Summer 2017 (magazine review).
I think the biggest shock in reading the latest edition of ‘Comic Book Creator was in Jon Cooke’s editorial that Bernie Wrightson died in March and Rich Buckler in May. Both solid comicbook artists in...
View ArticleIllustrators # 19 (magazine review)
All contents copyright The Book Palace Ltd(c) The Book Palace 2017 Another edition of ‘Illustrators’ and even a casual flip through shows there is a variety of art styles. We start off with no less...
View ArticleThe Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2017, Volume 132 #732...
There are nine pieces of prose fiction in this issue of ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’: one novella, four novelettes and four short stories. Most are fantasy stories and several of...
View ArticleBack Issue #99 September 2017 (magazine review).
You can never get past the fact that time flies and how quickly it passes. With this ‘Back Issue’, we look back 25 years to the ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ as well as the comicbook series that used...
View ArticleAlter Ego # 148 September 2017 (magazine review)
Back in 9-11 June 2000, Joe Petrilak ran the ‘All Time Classic New York Comic Book Convention’, where he had pros mainly from the Golden and Silver Ages of comics. With some of them in their advanced...
View ArticleBack Issue #100 October 2017 (magazine review).
‘Back Issue’ has reached its centenary issue and, with a few extra pages, the focus is on the American fanzines, both amateur and pro. There is a look at ‘The Comic Reader’ and ‘Squa Tront’ which...
View ArticleJack Kirby Collection Seventy-Two (magazine review)
Easily the best thing in this issue of ‘Jack Kirby Collector’ is ‘The Four-Colour War’ by Christopher Irving, an in-depth article that wouldn’t be out of place in a quality newspaper’s Sunday magazine...
View ArticleOn Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol 28 no. 2 # 105 (mag review)
‘On Spec’ endures, happily, and here’s another little issue. I missed the author interview this month but there’s plenty of other pleasing content. I’ll start with the obvious fantasy and move on to...
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