Losing Patrick McGoohan today was bad enough, but then it was announced that Ricardo Montalban has died as well. This is indeed a sad day. For politicos, McGoohan is probably the greater loss because of his highly political (and radical – not just of its time but of all time) subversion of the secret agent… Continue reading Patrick McGoohan & Ricardo Montalban RIP
Category: comics and geek culture
Nine wishes for 2009 #7: The Watchmen Movie to not suck (spoilers/guesses)
God, all my wishes are getting pretty forlorn, aren’t they? I’ve written about the upcoming Watchmen film fairly recently. What I will add is that I spent the early hours of Sunday morning watching the various promos and video diaries that the production team have been pumping out on the internet about it. The portents… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #7: The Watchmen Movie to not suck (spoilers/guesses)
Nine wishes for 2009 #5: Comics I care about
Yoink! These nine wishes for 2009 were meant to be done and dusted by 31 December. Nevertheless, I shall plough on… I’m a geek, to paraphrase Nick Clegg, by temperament, by instinct and by upbringing (the latter is all too true – my dad made me watch Alien when I was 8 FFS! He would… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #5: Comics I care about