While French philosopher Vincent Cespedes claims that his statement that Tintin is a girl was nothing more than fake news, we also discover that Roald Dahl’s character Charlie Bucket was originally going to be black, and that Winnie the Pooh in A. A. Milne’s books
This week on 4-Panel we talk about the biggest Iron Man story ever … at least according to Brian Michael Bendis. There are lots of terrible movie references – including one that is incorrect and from the movie guy no less (he should be ashamed).
To celebrate the release of the first in a trilogy of anime movies, Godzilla is finally getting its own festival! Aside from that we also take a look at the trailers for Aardman’s Early Man and Netflix’s Neo Yokio. Our featured anime are Belladonna of
After marvelling (get it?), at the new trailer for The Punisher, it’s time for another Inhumans-watch which leads to the Watchmen TV series and Hollywood’s live-action Akira movie. Our featured comics and manga are The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars volume 1, That Time I
We’re back for another romp through the cultured world and this time we bringing steamrollers, computer-written Game of Thrones, the moral impact of kid’s books, and some strange university courses. Our featured book is The Iron Hound (book two of The Hallowed War), by Tim
We kick off with our featured anime this week (Rage of Bahamut: Genesis and A Certain Scientific Railgun S), before things degenerate into an impromptu discussion about dubbing, redubbing, and rebooting. All of that leads to a post-show hunt for an All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl with
It’s a mixed bag of happenings this week with unfair tax rules, books on politics by Nick Clegg, time capsules by Chuck Palahniuk, actors for Good Omens, photographs of doors, fieldwork fails, the anatomy of Pokémon and lots of swearing. Tune in to The Geek
The Summer anime season has started so we put some of the new shows under the first impressions microscope to find out if they’re any good. Since there are too many to cover in one episode we’re starting off with Angel 3Piece! (Tenshi no 3P!),
Jane Austen finally arrives on the £10 note so everyone should be happy, right? Well, not quite … In other news, J. K. Rowling’s habit of writing on anything but paper continues, an Argentinean artist uses banned books to build the Parthenon, the Twilight Zone
With Netflix’s new adaptation of Death Note due out soon, we take a look at the trailer before heading to a maid cafe for foreigners and taking a walk down Tokyo’s other anime street. We also have a chat about manga and light novels that