“It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!” It would be hard to deny that there is no character more iconic than Superman, you would have to travel to a very obscure and isolated spot on this Earth to locate someone who couldn’t identify The Man of Steel from even just his trademark symbol –…
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Steel (1997) – Review
In 1992 one of the biggest events in comic-dom happened, Superman died, of course he didn’t stay dead, but his brief absence was filled by a group of Supermen, one being John Henry Irons, who donned power armour and high-tech weaponry and called himself Steel. In 1997 Warner Brothers made a live action movie based…
The Eternal Savage: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Eternal Savage could be considered one of the more “out there” stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs as although it has many of the elements and tropes of his other books, this one comes across more Twilight Zone-ish than one might expect.
Savage Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Savage Pellucidar is the last of the “hollow earth” stories by Burroughs and like Land of Terror it is more of a collection of loosely connected short stories than a novel; The Return to Pellucidar, Men of the Bronze Age and Tiger Girl and Savage Pellucidar. This book was not published until twelve years after…
Land of Terror: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Written in 1944 Land of Terror is the penultimate book in the Pellucidar series and one that was never serialized as it was rejected by all his usual publishers. Having read it I’m not all that surprised.