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Renaissance Man: An Interview with David Lloyd

The details of the stories vary, obviously, but they all follow essentially the same formula; Bond’s introductory encounter with a damsel in distress, subsequent plot thickening and introduction of bad guys, ending with a violent conclusion and Bond getting the girl.

This year the story of young Charley Bourne continues from where we left off in Volume 2 with the British trenches under attack from the Judgement Troopers.

We at FractalMatter are mindful of such card-selling events, and have therefore put together our most horrifying list of bloodcurdling films that you should definitely watch from behind your sofas.

The discussion continues on DC’s 52

Throughout the novels Anita takes on a great number of enemies, enlisting a variety of colourful characters as assistants, who almost invariably end up dead or worse. Of course, these are the tropes of long running genre fiction, there is the illusion of progression but never an actual conclusion- whilst each novel has an ending there doesn’t appear to be any far-reaching storyline encompassing all thirteen (thus far) books.

I really can’t recommend this book enough. A lot of people may be put off by the setting, and a perceived political message being delivered. Don’t be.

Like the earlier series, Wagner makes it clear this tale is one of Batman’s early days, when Gordon was but a Captain and Gotham was a corrupt city

With nowhere to go and no female company to turn to, Jaeger finds himself telling the sorry story of Five Crazy Women to an old friend over many, many beers.