The news that DC will be rebooting its entire superhero line with issue 1s from September has been whizzing through my mind all week. It’s going to have profound ramifications, not just for the DC Universe but for the so-called comics ‘industry’ as a whole. This promises to be DC’s biggest stab of the reset… Continue reading The DC Reboot: new dawn or twilight?
Category: comics and geek culture
Avatar: did Jim Cameron rip off 2000AD’s Firekind?
Heavy.com has illustrated the uncanny similarities between 2000AD strip Firekind (1993) and Jim Cameron’s Avatar (apparently in development since 1995). I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for Avatar I did notice the similarities, but dismissed them on the basis that a few superficial resemblances could easily be down to coincidence… Continue reading Avatar: did Jim Cameron rip off 2000AD’s Firekind?
Credit where it’s due
The Evening Standard and Liberal Vision have been patting Guido Fawkes on the back for observing the uncanny similarity between David Cameron’s latest airbrushed photo and Lt Cmdr Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Only one slight problem with this: Guido actually got the idea from me as I tweeted this observation over a… Continue reading Credit where it’s due