Hyper-DNA

Well, Free Comic Book Day has been and gone again, but it’s taken me a while to read through my stash from the day. As ever, the greatest treat I had left buried at the bottom of the pile. Of course, I have always come to expect good things from Boom!, and as regular readers [...]

Mutant Therapy

With it being shipping day today, I probably should wax lyrical about any issue ones released today, such as Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld’s Infinite #1. I mean, this is Robert Kirkman, creator of Invincible and the Walking Dead, what’s not to like? I confess I am not a fan of Liefeld’s art, and what [...]

Heart Of Darkness

IDW’s Infestation certainly succeeded in one thing, and that’s in encouraging me to read the Transformers again. Other than a few issues last year, I have not really read the tales of Cybertron since the original Transformers movie way back in 1986, bar the recent movie adaptations. Remember the first arrival of Unicron? The introduction [...]

Greatest Crossover of 2011 – Already???

It looks like the Zombie Watch needs to be dusted off and returned to centre stage. This week saw what for me is the most anticipated crossover of them all; IDW’s Infestation. Now, comic veterans like us are quite used to the Transformers mingling with the G.I. Joes. Yet in a stroke of genius (and [...]