To my surprise, ‘Being Human’ creator Toby Whithouse managed to not only provide a satisfying conclusion to a season I’ve had mixed feelings about with this episode, but also retroactively fix a lot of my issues with the season as a whole.
By the end of ‘The Wolf-Shaped Bullet’ I was left feeling optimistic about the [...]

Day Three of Grimm Up North 2010: Evil in the Time of Heroes, The Pack, and Amer.

‘Guts’ is an entertaining episode, which lacks the strength of the premiere but concentrates on action.

‘The Walking Dead’ comic has always primarily been about the characters, with the zombies providing a background.

Comics love arbitrary numbering milestones, and if there’s one advantage of a weekly publication schedule it’s that those big numbers roll around four times as fast as they do for US monthlies.

Something different this Thursday – our first webcomic. Younger Looking Flesh was written by Eddie Robson and drawn by Ant Mercer, both of the Lancaster creative mafia.
There’s not a huge amount to say about the creative process. It’s about zombies and it’s only two pages long. Just read it. Click here.

‘Death Troopers’ is an interesting experiment in the ‘Star Wars’ literature canon.

100% Milla free.

The loneliness of the post apocalyptic production runner.

Forty years on from ‘Night of the Living Dead’, writer/director George A Romero has still got it…

The film series of Capcom’s zombie franchise lurches towards competent film-making.

Remove the head or destroy the brain: ‘Plague of the Living Dead’, ‘When Zombies Attack!!’ #2 and ‘The Walking Dead’ #35.

As 2006 begins, now is the last chance we’ll have to round-up all those things that Shiny Shelf should have reviewed in 2005 but, due to the constraints of time and competence, didn’t get around to. ..

At last, a comic for people who want to see Captain America walking around carrying half his brain in his hand…

It is a relief to announce that, yes, George A. Romero still has what it takes. ‘Land of the Dead’ is a worthy sequel to Romero’s three previous zombie movies,while being a great contemporary horror movie in its own right…

Frank Cho is known as a creator who draws sexy characters, such as the female leads in ‘Liberty Meadows’ and ‘Shanna’…

What rocked Shiny’s world in the last twelve months? The answers are unlikely to surprise you.

As an obsessive ‘Resident Evil’ player, I feel less like a reviewer and more like a guest academic, wheeled in to provide learned analysis on how this movie fits in with the wider context of ‘RE’ lore. Turn to page 11 in your workbook now…

Sometimes the good stuff really does win out…

It’s a good year for zombies. There’s ‘Shaun of the Dead’, the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake, a stumbling mob of forthcoming ‘Resident Evil’ games – and then there’s this comic, which has both a trade paperback and a new issue out this week…

An undead Mexican wrestler? It’s hard to see how a concept that good could go wrong. Unfortunately, it’s such a good concept that it’s even harder to do it full justice…

We haven’t seen a British film like this since ‘Trainspotting’…

Zack Snyder’s remake of George Romero’s original ‘Dawn of the Dead’ keeps faith with the original by the simple method of doing something completely different…

The creative partnership of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland is renewed with ‘28 Days Later…’