Comics superstars Mark Millar and Frank Quitely reinvent the superhero epic for the 21st Century! - Millarworld.tv This comic book is such a humorous and yet also scary indictment of the modern age. Based around the offspring of a group of superheroes, it talks about drug use, social media and the double edged sword of …
Continue reading Jupiter’s Legacy Comic by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Vol 2/#1 is out now
A fictionalised account of the real life murder of Elizabeth Short in LA in the late 1940's, James Ellroy explores the unsolved case and LA's seedy underbelly in the Golden Age of Cinema. You might recognise James Ellroy's name from his best seller LA Confidential, (which was made into a really good film which I …
Mark Millar might be familiar to you as the creator of comic books that made into innovative films, like Kick Ass and Wanted. It's how I came across him as an adult reader of comics. (As I child I loved Caspar and Wendy, and Phantom, which was about all I could get my hands on). …
Continue reading Empress Comic Series by Millar and Immonen, #4 out tomorrow!
I first came across Daniel Sandler's products when I picked up a blue eyeliner from his range, for something fun and Summer-y. The colour is pretty stunning and it went on like a dream, but what really blew me away was the quality. When it says on the side "Long Lasting Waterproof" it really means …
Every now and then when I go past Baker Street in London, I stop to take a look in the window of the TFL Lost Property office. It's one of London's odd places. You can't actually go in, but the window regularly changes displaying different things left during the years, from 80's mobile phones the …
Continue reading Lost Property: the weirdest things left behind on London’s public transport.
Back in the 80's, when this novel was written, AIDS was a huge hot topic. It was a new disease, with a great deal of misunderstanding around it, a lot of fear and urban myths. One of the greatest being that it was a disease that only happened to gay men. But people also had …
A voice over artist with a secret past moonlights as a cleaner to help a friend, but finds herself stuck with an irascible man who is hiding from his former life. As they slowly become friends, the two start to share their secrets, but the man is a writer, and decides to use his new …
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Ever since I was a little girl I've loved when the post came in. Back home, I used to run to the gate when the postman or postwoman came past with her red bag. I was a lucky kid because my Dad, who lived about 12 hours away, would pretty regularly send my brother and …
Continue reading This Weeks Mood and The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
This is one of the stories about London that I love. Years ago, back in 1914, a young Canadian had joined the military and was on his way to join the Veterinary Corps. His name was Lt Harry Colebourn, and he is said to have been a kind hearted man. On his way through Ontario, …
Continue reading Winnie the Bear: the Bear Behind the Books.
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