She Hulk (season 1)

I have more than reached the point of "Urgh, not another Marvel TV show", if I'm being honest. And frankly, Hulk is probably my least-favourite character, smart version or otherwise. But, seeing this was only a half-hour show, I figured I'd give it an episode. And... it's fun. Ooh - there's what's been missing through …

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

I have to admit, I haven't been overly impressed with 'Phase 4' of the MCU, but nor am I saying I should have stopped with Endgame; it's just more of a lucky dip as to whether you'll get something fun or not. I perhaps stoopidly had high hopes for Thor: L&T, but alas it's a bit …

The Sandman (season 1)

I've loved the Sandman stories since I first stumbled across them in the local library. I'm not the hugest graphic novels fan, but these are easily my favourite and more than that the whole concept just kind of blows me away. The Endless: a family of, more or less, anthropomorphic personifications of the Big Ideas such as …

The Umbrella Academy (season 3)

(Usual spoiler: talking about how season 3 starts is kind of a spoiler for how season 2 ends) Meet the Hargreaves: seven 'siblings' who were brought together as babies by an eccentric millionaire who decided their highly unusual births - none of their mothers having been pregnant the day before - signalled something special. And …

Moon Knight (season 1)

Museum gift shop worker, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) has problems. He's rubbish with romance, his boss won't give him a promotion despite his encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Ancient Egyptian, and he has to cuff himself to the bedpost every night to stop some quite extreme sleep-walking. As in, wake up in a different country …

The Batman (2022)

To be honest, I wasn't desperately fussed about this movie. It feels like we've had at least twenty Batmans (Batmen?) in the past couple of years, and superhero fatigue has long since set in - even for me - more generally. But then people started raving about this a bit, and I allowed myself to …

Eternals (2021)

7000 years ago, a group of super-powered, immortal beings were sent to Earth to fight against the monstrous Deviants. Long thinking their mission complete, they've formed lives among humanity while they wait for their masters, the Celestials, to call them home. It's those masters who banned them from interfering in other human struggles, be that …

Loki (season 1)

Of all the new MCU tv shows - WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier - the one I was most looking forward to was this, Loki. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is a fascinating character, as is his evolution in the Marvel universe: from pure, if faceted, villain in both Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012), the character was so …

The Suicide Squad (2021)

While I would never say that Suicide Squad (2016) was a great movie, I didn't seem to hate it quite as much as the rest of the world. And now it seems I really don't love the slightly-sequel-y reboot anywhere near as much as everyone else. Seriously, people are raving about this like it's the best comic …

What’s Up Beanie? – Alina Tysoe

I've enjoyed the What's Up Beanie comic strip online for a while now, a cute look at little pink-haired Beanie - sometimes as a child, sometimes older - and some 'acutely relatable' (as the tagline states) life situations. In this book the author takes a few of those plus a whole pile of new ones and …