Comicsphere: Freakangels Friday: Interlude

So, today there was something a little different being offered in stead of the Freakangels webcomic which is on a one week hiatus. Today Warren Ellis offers us some thoughts on his preoccupations with disaster fiction and the very British influences which have filtered into the story which we are logging on every week to [...]

Comicsphere: Witch Doctor By Brandon Seifert & Lukas Ketner

This comic really grabs you from the first piece of art that you see until the last. Having been a part of Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel community since it’s launch I and others have been privileged to get an insight into the research that went into this story; the thoughtful way in which every aspect of [...]

Comicsphere: Cages by Xander Bennett & Melanie Cook

What if you’d spent your whole life in a cage, never glimpsing the world outside?
What if everything you knew was darkness, fear and cold, clinical steel?
What if one day, an angel came to you with a message of hope – a message that you were about to be set free?
This is the story of CAGES, [...]

Culture Vulture: Kurt Vonnegut

I remember exactly where I was when I learned of the passing of Kurt Vonnegut — I was in Wisconsin staying on a friend’s couch into the second month of my travels around the states. I wrote a poem in honour of him and i read it at the Harmony Cafe as part of [...]

Turn The Page: Walter M Miller Jr.

I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like ‘If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of the science fiction that I had read up to that point except for maybe The [...]

Television Whitenoise: Wild Palms

I would have to watch it again but I think that this series was much better than it was ever  given credit for. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow which is pretty much a guarantee of it being worth watching and Oliver Stone had a pretty major role producing. In fact one of the scenes [...]

Television Whitenoise: luna

It’s odd how some things just stick in your head and you don’t have to see them that many times. Most British television, at least sci-fi orientated shows in the 1980s is pretty much typified by bad special effects and great ideas. This show is no exception — the whole world seems really well thought [...]