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Dave Bowling

Dave was born at an early age to parents of both sexes. He has been a self-confessed geek for as long as he can remember, having been raised through the 80s on a steady diet of Doctor Who, Star Trek, Red Dwarf and (sigh) Knight Rider. Throw the usual assortment of Saturday morning cartoons into the mix and we have something quite exceptional: someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of utter tosh; a love of giant robots and spaceships fighting; and the strange desire to leap tall buildings in a single bound while wearing his underpants over his trousers. The death ray is currently in the works and one day you shall all bow to him, his giant space station and fleet of funky orange space shuttles...

The posts below were all written by Dave Bowling

GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FTN reviews The Star Wars

July 8th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

The Star Wars is very different from Star Wars… but does it translate to comic form? Dave have a look…

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Gotham director explains influences and teases another villain

June 23rd, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Winter could be coming to Gotham

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Confirmed: X-Men: Apocalypse Set in 1983?

June 23rd, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

So we have a date for the next X-Men movie, huh?

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COMIC REVIEW: FTN reviews Alien Legion: Uncivil War #1

June 19th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

It’s been away for 21 years but can the Alien Legion deliver? Dave finds out..

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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FTN reviews The Weirding Willows

June 18th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Take one part Fables, one part League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and blend well.

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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FTN reviews Robocop Vs The Terminator HC

June 17th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

It’s the ultimate throw down of 1980s cyborgs… but it as good as you remember?

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Danger Mouse Returns!

June 17th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

He’s coming back! Crumbs chief!

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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: FTN reviews Death Sentence

June 12th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

If you had the powers of a superhero but only six months to live, what would you do?

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Get ready, the Sonic The Hedgehog movie is coming

June 11th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

And it’ll be CGI and live-action…

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Sony in Talks with Jordan Vogt-Roberts to Helm Metal Gear Solid Movie

June 4th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Metal Gear Fans get ready… it looks like Hideo Kojima has given this the go-ahead

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COMIC REVIEW: FTN reviews Ordinary #1

May 22nd, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

What would happen if everyone in the world was a superhero… except you?

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TELEVISION REVIEW: FTN reviews Teen Titans Go! S01E01

April 14th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

The Titans are back… but are they the guys we already know and love?

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Thirty years on, Dave looks back at Threads, the BBC’s second stab at factual apocalypse…

April 6th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

DAVE LOOKS BACK AT THREADS: a docu-drama created by the BBC in the 1980s and told the story of a world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon and then what happens when the bomb drops, condemning us all to a life in hell. It’s sobbering stuff and is as relevant now as 30 years ago

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COMIC REVIEW: FTN reviews Blood Blokes

April 5th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Things aren’t going well for Vince..

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COMIC REVIEW: FTN reviews Tabatha

April 5th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Neil Gibson manages to build suspense through all four issues

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Dave asks whatever happened to creativity?

April 4th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CREATIVITY? Is Hollywood really afraid to take chances on new ideas? Is this the state of affairs? A world where originality and fresh ideas are hammered down, replaced by reboots, remakes and uninspired adaptations of existing materials?

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Dave looks at MEGAS XLR and remembers how freaking awesome it was…

April 1st, 2014 by Dave Bowling 1 Comment

this massive Manga wind-up was cancelled after one series but it left quite and impression… and it might be coming back…

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Dave ponders where Capaldi’s Doctor will go and what he’d like to see in the series

March 31st, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

With the new series of Doctor Who kicking off later this year, it’s fun to speculate about what we’ll see… and what we really want to see

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COMIC REVIEW: FTN reviews Twisted Dark Vol 1

February 7th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Dave checks out the first volume of Neil Gibson’s Twisted Dark Vol 1

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Dave looks back Babylon 5 episode: And Now For A Word S02E15

February 7th, 2014 by Dave Bowling Comments

Dave looks back at the second season classic episode that broke the mould…

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