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The Crawling Ear: Predicting “Weird Al’s” new single
James Greene, Jr.
It's not often we can talk about a new 'Weird Al' Yankovic record. But today is one of those special days...
The Ingrid Pitt column: losing Richard Burton
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid recalls the day she heard the news that Richard Burton had died. She was supposed to be in a film with him at the time...
Alternate Cover: Minx - the leftovers
James Hunt
DC is bringing its Minx line to an end - so James picks out some of the highlights of its brief life...
5th Column: ‘Geek’ movies get no love from BFI
James Clayton
James takes our guest speaker slot, and has a few questions about why geek movies keep getting overlooked...
The Ryan Lambie Column: Bring back cute platform games
Ryan Lambie
Are the days of cute platformers such as Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story gone forever, wonders Ryan?
The Ingrid Pitt column: why vampires are popular
Ingrid Pitt
The Hammer Horror legend has played a vampire in the past, and here, she considers their appeal...
Alternate Cover: A Creator's Legacy
James Hunt
News of a Hitchhiker's sequel has set James thinking about character ownership in the land of comics...
The Ryan Lambie column: how game settings keep letting things down
Ryan Lambie
How tricky is it to create an interesting world to set a game in the midst of? Very, seems to be the answer...
The Ingrid Pitt column: films of the 50s
Ingrid Pitt
Hammer Horror legend Ingrid Pitt gleefully recalls innovations such as 3D, Cinerama and damn good scripts. You can't beat the 50s...
Alternate Cover: Absolute Black Dossier? Absolute Mess!
James Hunt
Why The Absolute Black Dossier is a slap in the face to those willing to pay more for a supposedly premium edition of their favourite comic book...The Ryan Lambie column: My Favourite Waste of Time
Ryan Lambie
Ryan's caffeine purge sends him scurrying to his consoles for consolation, bypassing much housework on the way...
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The Ingrid Pitt column: talent shows
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid remembers how she got her break, and how she's glad she didn't have to make her mark in the era of The X Factor
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Alternate Cover: can digital comics work?
James Hunt
James returns from a house move, fresh from humping umpteen back issues of comics around. And it set him thinking...
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The Ryan Lambie column: casual games can save your life
Ryan Lambie
Can insubstantial time-passers like Bejeweled really delay the Big Frag...?
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The Crawling Ear: when poetry meets love of The Ramones
James Greene Jr
In James' own words, "An Epic Poem Recounting My (Non)Adventures With The Ramones"
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The Ingrid Pitt column: Doctors of death
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid recalls the case of two murdering Swedish physicians that rivalled anything in the Harold Shipman catalogue of horror...
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The Ryan Lambie Column: War!
Ryan Lambie
Ryan wonders if we have the right to appropriate the harsh experiences of real war in the services of another WWII fragfest...
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The Ingrid Pitt column: buried treasure!
Ingrid Pitt
How a Hammer Horror legend ended up with a metal detector, wellies, and some vintage coins...
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Fifth Column: Are we suffering from pixel fatigue?
Simon Brew
Has the perennial gloss of the latest CGI cartoons and stylised action films made us weary for something grittier...?
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The Ryan Lambie column: why 2008 is the year of the download
Ryan Lambie
Is 2008 is the year that downloading games (legally) came of age...?
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