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Every story must come to an end, every tale must wag in the face of the reader one final time and heroes and villains alike must bid their own individual Farewell; some though live forever, they are as immortal as the ability to relay the tales either through spoken narrative or visual aid, the hero and villain must live in the ether ready to be seen again.
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There is magic within the mind of Geoff Johns that somehow seems out of phase with the rest of humanity, for who can argue against the man who turned round the fortunes of Aquaman and revitalised the whole D.C. universe, if that is not magic then the whole concept of art is somehow askew.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Snow White may have been the fairest in the land but she was not always wise in her choice of suitors. Happily married to Bigby Wolf, once enamoured by the charms of a Prince and former slave to the whims of dwarves, Snow White’s past comes back to haunt her as the truth of one the captors found in the ruins of Fabletown is revealed. It is a secret that will divide and break hearts, the mirror didn’t just speak the truth, it was able to crack glass.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Every graphic novel has the desire it seems at least once in its publication to hark back to the golden era of comic books and assemble a team of disparate heroes, a squad of misfits and rebel loners who together are capable of beating the odds and taking down a force that threatens to engulf and enflame all that they hold dear. It is the staple of such ideological heroism that draws many to graphic novels in the first place and which is never truly captured in between the pages of any novel.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
It is so often the way that a new writer at the helm of what has become a genuine contender in the realm of graphic novel fiction can somehow be seen as a setback in the character’s development or in the way that it is perceived to be heading.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The legend behind the Fables of The Farm and those displaced from both their natural worlds and Bullfinch Street in New York might end up relying upon the actions of two of the great witches that reside on the side of the greater community. For in Frau Totenkinder and the young but powerful Ozma, all the fighting for survival so far has been one in which their true selves have managed to keep out of the limelight, all that now is over and the real war begins.
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Every tale of heroism has a beginning, every superhero a back story in which the reality of their true nature shines through and the grip on the reader’s imagination starts to take hold.
The one huge problem with graphic novels and comic books is how time outstrips the development of the character. One Fantastic Four reader wrote to Marvel in the 1970s and explained how one year in time in their Universe was worth three to four in the real world, by which logic the average reader has moved on and only leaving the dedicated to follow the story line on ad-infinitum.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Annette Badland, Katy Wix, Alix Dunmore, Raymond Coulthard, David Ricardo-Pearce.
There is surely one place and one set of foes more terrifying than a fleet of Daleks rampaging from the torment that is Skaro, the Cybermen climbing out of their icy wombs, the spiders of Metabelis 3 or the arch devil himself himself The Master burnt to a crisp and finding the best way to groom a beard and that is the nightmare that would make them all quiver in fright, the suburban middle-class themed party, the fear that dominates the Suburban Hell.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Life is but a tale in which we are the masters of our own sharpened pencil and in which higher powers will always have an eraser, a bottle of correction fluid and a redaction machine handily placed in which to make us disappear if need be, or at the very least make our lives seem worthless and out of control. It is in this action that words and deeds become heroic or they become creatures in which the under fire find a kindred spirit; either way words are power, in whichever hands they are handled.
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Vengeance is a dish best served slightly less chilled than its more unnerving half sibling Revenge, for vengeance reeks of slaughter on a bigger scale, it doesn’t just require the two spades that revenge insists be carried, it asks for a dumper truck, a blind eye and a concrete mixer big enough to fill in a new section of motorway. For vengeance takes down all who get in the way and for Harley Quinn, getting in the way is a hobby that crosses boundaries between the good, the bad and the psychiatrist chair are all too strewn with Vengeance Unlimited.