Danny Graydon

No, the lack of posts in the last week wasn’t a sign my of being quickly bored with blogging, rather that I had simply loads to do in The Real World. January is always a particularly stressful time for the self-employed, given that the 31st of the month is when us freelancers have to have our [...]

My university pal – and fellow rabid Alan Moore disciple - Chris Denton has been in touch to proudly proclaim that issue #2 of his hugely enjoyable (and very professional looking) small-press title WALKING WOUNDED  is now available for download for FREE at their website, MASSACRE FOR BOYS, which can be found here.  (Click on the picture for [...]

BEFORE SUNSET, Richard Linklater’s sublime 2004 sequel to his much loved indie hit BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), is one my favourite films. Aside from the fact that, like the first film, it massively appealed to my inner romantic, it’s a film that ‘spoke’ to me in a way that few other films have, given the circumstances [...]

A much-appreciated piece of Comics post arrived a few days back as the good folks over at Titan Books sent over a copy of their new edition of a truly underrated 80’s Batman tale, THE CULT, written by Jim Starlin and with art by the brilliant Bernie Wrightson.  These days, it’s all too easy to [...]

 London-based Comics fans have a treat in store if they head over to Orbital Comics at Great Newport Street (WC2)  from tomorrow until February 14th. Orbital is hosting the first ever exhibition of artwork of the great Arthur Ranson, a name well-known to fans of seminal British SF comic 2000AD, where he has been a [...]

As James Cameron’s Avatar progressively rumbles towards beating Titanic’s worldwide box-office record of $1.8 billion, CNN writes of a slightly disturbing side-effect of the film’s globe-gobbling success. Apparently, Cameron’s beautifully-realised alien world of Pandora was so well realised, that some viewers are complaining of depression emerging from the realisation that it doesn’t exist. On the [...]

Well, this is a very suitable first post for my blog…! Entertainment news outlets are currently buzzing with the stunning – if not exactly surprising –  news that Sony are intending to re-boot their prized Spider-Man franchise in 2012. In the last few weeks, there have been many rumours of a major spat between the franchise’s [...]