A small review of a small comic book.

We’re four months in Brad Meltzer’s six issue run now, and while the pace could never be called electric, there’s plenty happening in character terms.

As my esteemed colleague Mr Clapham noted last week it’s traditional for the last episode of ‘Buffy’ before the Christmas break to offer its audience some sense of closure. Not this year.

No, Willow does not attempt to raise the career of Louise Wener from the dead in this episode. Some things are beyond even her power.

Big things are afoot in Sunnydale, someone’s playing a sick and complex game and it’s not going to end nicely. Remember, from beneath you it devours.

Watched today ‘Robin of Sherwood’ strikes you as too good to be an ongoing British television drama series. It has production values, fine acting and a sense of style.

Some may complain about these being fairly extra-less, ‘vanilla’ releases, but frankly I’m grateful they’re coming out at all…

This comic couldn’t be more of a period piece if the characters dressed in doublet and hose and called each other ‘nuncle’…

Those of you who have read my self aggrandising biography in the ‘Who We Are’ section of this site will know that I’m writing a book on the TV series Smallville, and as such I buy Smallville-set comics like this for research…

To quote the great Egon Spengler, the very final episode of Ally McBeal is short, but pointless. Old clips, old jokes, old friends, old hat. You’ll cry, but mainly for the careers of those involved…