Archive for January, 2009

Leah Moore and John Reppion – a special SciFiLove interview

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 26th January , 2009

LEAH floated in space, and then suddenly in front of her she saw The Doctor, taking his place in a perfectly formed comic book page, filled with beautiful colours, and underneath there was a name … The Whispering Gallery.

She snapped awake, turned to her husband John and said ‘I know what we are going [...]

A sneaky peak of Leah Moore, John Reppion and Doctor Who

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 23rd January , 2009

ON Monday, I’ll put up the interview I did with Leah Moore and John Reppion, for my day job at the Liverpool Echo and Liverpool Daily Post.
In the meantime, here’s some artwork from the new Doctor Who comic they have written and Ben Templesmith drew, called The Whispering Gallery. Enjoy!
If you’re reading this and you [...]

Doctor Who Journal of Impossible Things toy is genius

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 21st January , 2009

REGULAR readers of this blog (I’m talking to you – my friends who I nag, and whoever it is in Mountain View, California) will know that I love Doctor Who.
And within the Who, I especially loved Human Nature and the Family of Blood, Paul Cornell’s wonderful two-parter where the Doctor chooses to become human, and [...]

Battlestar Galactica – no spoilers for the end of season four on Sky please

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 19th January , 2009

AS I have said before, I love the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica with a passion.
I love watching it, reading about it, geeking out with fellow devotees on online forums – that’s why it is so hard to avoid spoilers for the second half of season four.
I want to watch it on television, so have resisted the [...]

Ricardo Montalban – every Star Trek fan’s debt to Khan Noonien Singh

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 15th January , 2009

‘KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!’
Ricardo Montalban is no longer with us, but his coruscating performance as Khan Noonien Singh in The Wrath of Khan ensures he will live on.

New Judge Dredd movie artwork online

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 9th January , 2009

THE first bits of artwork for the new Judge Dredd movie have been put up on io9 and they are awesome.

Moody, vicious, cool – in short, everything the 1995 Sylvester Stallone film wasn’t. Looking back now, it is hard to credit just how much Sly’s stab at portraying 2000AD’s finest sucked.