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Tuesday, 27 January 2026

The Incredible Hulk #2

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 "Hate you? Why shouldn't I hate you? Why shouldn't I hate all mankind?" So... the Toad Men? Cartoonish generic alien inv...
Monday, 26 January 2026

Tales to Astonish #32

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 "No, my heartless intruder! It is you who have asked for it! I've skipped a couple of Tales to Astonish stories in the Order as t...
Sunday, 25 January 2026

The Incredible Hulk #1

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 "You keep  out of this, Betty! This is man talk!" There are a couple of short stories from Tales to Astonish in the order, but I...
Saturday, 24 January 2026

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

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  This is one of those novels which have been translated to the screen again and again, not least in The Last Man on Earth , starring Vincen...
Thursday, 22 January 2026

Fantastic Four #4

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 "One side, woman! I got me an idea!" It's weird to think that this is the Sub-Mariner's first Silver Age appearance... ye...
Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Fantastic Four #3

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 " I'm disappointed in you, Reed! You almost had him, and then he slipped through your fingers!" This issue begins to feel a b...
Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Tales to Astonish #27

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 "I won't tell you yet! You would only laugh at me as you've done before! But when I've finished it, I'll show you! You...
Monday, 19 January 2026

Fantastic Four #2

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 "No wonder our leaders dare not invade Earth until the Fantastic Four are stopped!" Issue #2, and we have Skrulls! But, well, the...
Sunday, 18 January 2026

Fantastic Four #1

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 "You've turned into monsters... both of you! It's those rays! Those terrible cosmic rays!" Yes, it's a bit of a sudde...
Saturday, 17 January 2026

An Update... and a Plan

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 Firstly, fear not: everything I've been blogging- Dexter, Gen V , films, other new telly that may arise- will continue. This blog isn...
Sunday, 11 January 2026

Ghostwatch

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 "You don't know, do you?" "..........No. I don't." I haven't seen this since... well, 31st October, 1992, s...
Thursday, 8 January 2026

Update

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Fear not; I haven't gone anywhere and will continue with Dexter , Gen V and other stuff as much as I can. Just bear with me in advance o...
Monday, 5 January 2026

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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Yes, I know: I've seen the television series based upon this novel and its sequels, and I usually arrange to read the novel first. But i...
Friday, 2 January 2026

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 8- The Rightside Up

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 "Oh, I was planning on carelessness...!" I saw this finale last night, and I'm glad I've let it sink in a little before a...
Wednesday, 31 December 2025

The Room in the Tower

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 "I've given you the room in the tower..." It's that time of year, and so we have the latest of the BBC's Ghost Storie...
Tuesday, 30 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea: The End of the War

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 "We will give you anything you want. Because we are terrified of you." RTD is writing again for what proves to be a dramatic fina...
Monday, 29 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 7- The Bridge

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 "Guess you didn't need truth serum, huh?" So Max is awake. Her muscles are weak, she's in a wheelchair for now, but these...
Sunday, 28 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 6- Escape from Camazotz

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 "Before you say anything... I know it's five o'clock in the morning, but I need you to build me a telemetry tracker." For...
Saturday, 27 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 5- Shock Jock

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"There are no happy endings, Jane. Not for us." We begin (incidentally, Frank Darabont of Walking Dead fame directs), despite the...
Wednesday, 24 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea: The Witch of the Waterfall

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 "You'll never swim alone!" Hmm. I can see what they're trying to do, and even admire it. There's a racism and xenopho...
Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 4- Sorcerer

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 "Henry is a lot of things, but in trouble with the monsters is not one of them." Wow. That episode was a bit good, to put it mild...
Monday, 22 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 3- The Turnbow Trap

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 "No, we're saving a child via kidnapping." I know, I'm getting rather behind: bear with me, it's my condition. All w...
Wednesday, 17 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea: The Deep

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 "If you're trying to keep the peace, you've already failed." The third episode maintains the quality by pushing the tensi...
Monday, 15 December 2025

Update

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 As per the previous update, just bear with me between now and my surgery in late January, a rather unpleasant hernia is making concentratio...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 2- The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler

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 "Heavens to Betsy!" This season continues to be brilliant, in terms of script and acting. It also looks amazing, a case in point ...
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea: Plastic Apocalypse

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 "This man is the most important person on the planet." This episode may be Pete McTighe rather than RTD, but the quality continue...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Harley and Ivy

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 "You're just one big, forgiving doormat, aren't you?" Another superb episode here, from the opening scenes with the very ...
Monday, 8 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea: Homo Aqua

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 "That's them- the gay waters!" Before I start praising this promising first episode, a gripe about "homo aqua": it...
Friday, 5 December 2025

Update

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 It's probably worth copying what I wrote yesterday, as not everyone will be following Batman: The Animated Series: " Yes, I know: ...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Mechanic

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 "I need a new car..." Yes, I know: I'm doing another episode of Batman: The Animated Series as opposed to the other series I...
Monday, 1 December 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Zatanna

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 "This never happens to me in Vegas!" This is a real first for the animated series- an appearance by another DC superhero, in this...
Friday, 28 November 2025

Stranger Things: Season 5, Chapter 1- The Crawl

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 "What is it about your presence that brings out your inner Neanderthal?" I've missed Stranger Things ... but then it's be...
Thursday, 27 November 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Paging The Crime Doctor

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 "I thought I told you to take the day off..." This is one of the finest episodes yet- perhaps the best. Yes, it's a little co...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Gen V: H Is for Human

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 "Well, you kind of get used to the public nudity stuff..." I only know of Olivia Rodrigo from Little Miss Llamastrangler, but dam...
Monday, 24 November 2025

Update

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 Bear with me- I do realise I’m not blogging quite as often at the moment. This is because of a gradually worsening health condition which, ...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

The Apprentice (2024)

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"Have you no decency?" "Oh, I've heard that before..." The more my thoughts dwell on this film, the more I come to a...
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Thursday, 20 November 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Mudslide

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 "It seems that Clayface is losing his integrity." "I wasn't aware that he had any to begin with." So that's the...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Des: Episode 3

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 "I could never have stopped..." And it ends with a highly dramatic and entertaining courtroom drama, with twists and turns throug...
Monday, 17 November 2025

Dexter: Dex, Lies and Videotape

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 "What step was that?" "The naughty one!" So... Dexter gets away with deleting the marina footage by the old fire alarm ...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

Skyfall (2012)

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 "You were expecting an exploding pen?" And so here we reach unexplored territory for me- until yesterday, I hadn't seen any J...
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Thursday, 13 November 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Man Who Killed Batman

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 "Without Batman, crime has no punchline." We begin with rain, with night-time darkness, with interesting camera angles giving a v...
Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Des: Episode 2

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 "Death gives no refunds..." Yes, I know, I don't usually blog the same programme on consecutive days, but this time I have, s...
Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Des: Episode 1

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 "How didn't we know?" The first thing to say about this dramatisation of the investigation into the appalling crimes of Denni...
Monday, 10 November 2025

Dexter: The Dark Defender

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 "Should we call the Super Friends for help?" So... that was an actual armadillo. Wow! Very strange for this Brit to think of one ...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

Gen V: Justice Never Forgets

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"Today, as you are inducted into our sacred brotherhood, our legacy, it would do you well to remember our three trinities: wisdom, hono...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Silver Blaze

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"That was the curious incident..." This thirty minute curiosity is a one-off, produced in November 1977 under the auspices of an a...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Off Balance

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 "As you said, detective... this is not over!" This is a magnificent episode. An exciting story, a clever twist, Helen Slater (Sup...
Sunday, 2 November 2025

Animal Crackers (1930)

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 "Well, not all the jokes can be good. You have to expect that once in a while." After forty-eight years on the planet, most of th...
Monday, 27 October 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- I Am the Night

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"A weary body can be dealt with. But a weary spirit... that's something else." The title of this episode reminds me of Audiosl...
Sunday, 26 October 2025

The Haunting (1963)

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 "It was an evil house from the beginning- a house that was born bad!" This may be the quintessential, the perfect haunted house m...
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Twin Peaks: Beyond Life and Death

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 "You and I have an appointment at the end of the world..." Wow. That was extraordinary. And that final scene, with Kyle MachLachl...