Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century John Higgs Signal, 352pp The twentieth century is the one about which we know the most, due to explosions … Continue reading Stranger Than We Can Imagine Reviewed
Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop’s illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it’s a movie or album they’ve carried with them for years. Maybe … Continue reading David Ward On… Being a Dork Dad
I figured I’d take the opportunity to do my “On…” column on one of my favourite books this time around, and, strangely enough, it has nothing to do with visceral … Continue reading David Ward On… Serendipities by Umberto Eco
The Cenobite bites it. The Order of the Gash lays smashed and shattered upon a mound of bones and blood, confined forever to a sea of dust and ash. This … Continue reading David Sandford Ward travels to Hell in Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels
Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop’s illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it’s a movie or album they’ve carried with them for years. Maybe … Continue reading David Sandford Ward On… Rivers
My column on all things Hellblazer is going to start in the middle. Why? Because beginnings reek of convention, something that strikes me as anathema to John Constantine. So I’m … Continue reading David Ward On… Hellblazer
Last week I suggested Roof Oasis by our own Marie Gilbert for the Biff Bam Pop! Holiday Gift Guide, but while Marie is one of our family here, she’s also … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s Holiday Gift Guide 2014: The Gift of Reading
Thor is a twit. He’s boastful, arrogant, temperamental, and downright stupid. His half-brother, Loki, got the advantage on him more times than not, and Thor’s ususal response was to hit … Continue reading Happy Thorsday! David Ward on Thor and Loki
After a hiatus of over two years, I decided to go to the movies last Saturday. While I both adore watching and going to the movies, for some reason over … Continue reading Saturday At The Movies: The World’s End – We Want to Get Loaded . . . and have a good time
In 1984, an unassuming technophobic geek from Vancouver named William Gibson penned one of, if not the, seminal works of what would later be called cyberpunk. The book, Neuromancer, was … Continue reading Saturday At The Movies: Johnny Mnemonic
Until earlier this week, it had been nigh on fifteen years since I had seen Alex Proyas’s take on James O’Barr’s The Crow. When it first came out in 1994, … Continue reading Saturday At The Movies: David Sandford Ward Revisits The Crow
Prometheus Blu-Ray, 20th Century Fox The Art of Prometheus Titan Books A quick flip through, and scanning of, Titan’s recently published book Prometheus: The Art of the Film reveals Ridley Scott … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s Holiday Gift Guide – Prometheus On Blu-Ray and The Art of Prometheus
