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Trinity review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 22, 20210Comments

I must admit with all the buzz around Matt Wagner's Trinity when I was younger I expected something a little more along the lines of a reflection upon the relationship between DC's big three. It is by no means a bad read - it is, in fact, a swift read and keeps you engrossed all the…

Superman For All Seasons review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 15, 20210Comments

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's "Superman For All Seasons" is best described, I believe, as a simple masterpiece. It doesn't try to be a grand story with sprawling action scenes or a mind-boggling thriller or a deconstruction of the Man of Steel. It is a simple retelling of a life, Clark Kent's early life as Superman…

Almanacco dell’orrore popolare – Folk Horror Italian Style: A ground-breaking book edited by Fabio Camilletti and Fabrizio Foni

Book, NewsJune 9, 20210Comments

Whereas Anglo-American culture linguistically distinguishes between ‘folk’ and ‘pop’, the Italian language relies in both cases on the word ‘popolare’. Such an ambivalence says a lot in itself. British (and by extension, partly also American) collective imagination originally made use of ‘folk’, a term of Germanic origin, to refer to secluded and mostly pagan rural…

Annihilation : Conquest review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 9, 20210Comments

While the highlight of the original Annihilation event was probably the many tie-ins, I could easily say that the highlight to Conquest was the main story. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed some of them, but the ones I did were the only ones truly essential to the story - namely Quasar, which incidentally follows my…

Ennead – Exhibition

Events, NewsMay 21, 20210Comments

Ennead – a group of nine, as are the artists in an exhibition of the same name. Ennead is a multifaceted collaboration of Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Arts students and the Department of Digital Arts, carrying out their final piece from practice-based research at the University of Malta. Each of the work's echo concepts…

Aquaman: Death of a Prince review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMay 11, 20210Comments

I must admit I was rather disappointed going through this. While I in no way under normal circumstances find Aquaman or his world boring, I was ready to read something that took what it was dealing with a little more seriously. It strangely reminds me of Batman: A Death in the Family. They are alike…

Annihilation review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsApril 20, 20210Comments

A large part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe owes to the cosmic opera that is the original Annihilation event, orchestrated by Keith Giffen and co-written by various other artists and writers. Reducing the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe to a fight for survival, the Annihilation event is a true masterclass in event comics in…

Invincible Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsApril 20, 20210Comments

The first volume of the Invincible Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis is not intrinsically remarkable, unlike other of his works such as Daredevil. While it is an easy read (I am currently at the mercy of a splitting migraine) compared to most comics out there at the moment, it suffers from very poor planning.…

The Avengers – Kree/Skrull War review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsApril 3, 20210Comments

One of the original "event comics", the Kree-Skrull war penned by Roy Thomas and the rotating art team of John and Sal Buscema and the spectacular Neal Adams, is however not an easy read. Roy Thomas's deeply melodramatic writing is very much of its time, very much bombastic and over the top, but to me that…

Godzilla Vs Kong – Film review by Raphael Borg

Movies, ReviewsApril 2, 20210Comments

Definitely a step up from Kong: Skull Island (which I truly liked) and Godzilla (so and so), but a step lower from Godzilla: King of Monsters (which I REALLY liked), the movie has a better story than some of its precedents but what stops it short from being excellent is two major things: some things…

Wonder Woman: Earth One Volume 1-3 review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsMarch 22, 20210Comments

While I normally find Grant Morrison's work thoroughly thought-provoking and compelling (and often migraine inducing), the three volumes of Wonder Woman: Earth One proved a much more of a slog to get through, ironically enough. That is not to say it is bad per se - by any extent of the imagination, it is would…

BLACK HAMMER is REBORN and SNOW ANGELS from Jeff Lemire, Launches.

Comics, NewsMarch 17, 20210Comments

Dark Horse Comics will officially spend its summer vacation just outside the streets of Spiral City — the bustling metropolis of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer mythos — in Black Hammer: Reborn. Set two decades after Age of Doom, the new ongoing series finds Lucy Weber living a rather humdrum life after giving up the mantle of Black…