Category Archives: Comics

Another One Bites the Dust

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Robert Hood

Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has sent another great image from the next episode of Tales of King Komodo — a comic he is doing with Mike Bogue. He says: Here’s a sneak-peek at TALES OF KING KOMODO Episode 4, which … Continue reading →

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Godzilla ’94 “2-D Trailer”

Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

Todd Tennant has created an imaginary trailer for his graphic novel version of the US Godzilla film that never was — you know, the one scripted by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio that Jan De Bont was set to make … Continue reading →

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King Komodo: The Trailer

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Robert Hood

Having just read G-Fan #83, I’m suitably impressed by the new King Komodo graphic serial, Tales of King Komodo, which Todd Tennant (with Mike Bogue) has started in that issue. For one thing there’s a killer scene of a giant … Continue reading →

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Coming soon! Ret Romanne

Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 by Robert Hood

This is by way of an introduction to what comic artist and writer Alan Brooks considers to be his magnum opus, Ret Romanne. Ret Romanne is a Time Dignitary who lives and works on the Off World “Cloud City” of … Continue reading →

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Update: Flying Saucers vs the Earth

Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 by Robert Hood

Artist Alan Brooks has emailed to tell me that issue #1 of Flying Saucers vs the Earth — which “came out on Wednesday, after delays” — has sold out already. Well done, Alan! Alien image from Alan’s blog Previous Backbrain … Continue reading →

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Update: Flying Saucers vs the Earth

Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Robert Hood

Artist Alan Brooks has sent this trailer that he’s put together for the Ray Harryhausen Presents/Bluewater Productions comicbook he’s been working on — Flying Saucers vs the Earth. The first issue is now available. Famed Sci-Fi novel cover artist Alan … Continue reading →

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Update: The Incredible Hulk

Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

A gallery of shots from the upcoming Marvel monster film The Incredible Hulk (US-2008; dir. Louis Leterrier) has appeared online: Source: YahooMovies vis Todd Tennant Just as a matter of interest, here’s the Abomination from the Marvel comics:

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 2

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

I was in Sydney’s Chinatown recently, negotiating a tiresome crowd of zombies, when I bumped into a tall, shuffling figure wearing a trenchcoat, scalf and hat, even though it wasn’t all that cold. It was only as I apologised and … Continue reading →

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 1

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

As comic giant monsters go, Fin Fang Foom is one of the green-blooded aristocrats. Ranging in size somewhere between 32 feet and 100 feet (though he has been known to be reductive enough to sit in a park playing chess … Continue reading →

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Mecha Bible Heroes!

Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 by Robert Hood

Yes, it’s Bible stories in the form of manga, with appropriate “translation” of the characters into giant robots, action heroes and other manga-esque entities: You can see some of the internal pages here. And in case you thought that such … Continue reading →

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