GHOST RIDER 2: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE review

Directors: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor

Writers: Scott M. Gimple, Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer

Starring: Nicholas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba and Christopher Lambert

Review by Stewart Loud

Cinema 3D might be a load of crap but this film definitely isn't. Directed by the guys responsible for the Crank films, this high octane fire fest is everything you could possibly expect from a film about a flaming skeleton who rides a motorbike. Nicholas Cage's hair is looking a lot better than it did in the first one too.

MAZEWORLD graphic novel review

Collects THE HANGED MAN, THE DARK MAN and THE HELL MAZE originally published in 2000ad progs 1014-1023, 1101-1110 and 1151-1160

Writer: Alan Grant

Art: Arthur Ranson

Published by Rebellion

Review and pictures (most of them) by Stewart Loud

Described on the cover as “a nightmarish fantasy” that's exactly what this epic tale is. Read this and you'll lose yourself in one of the most original story lines ever to be published in the pages of long running British comic 2000ad. Mazeworld is the kind of setting I imagine you'd end up with if Studio Gibli made a movie that was a cross between Lord Of The Rings and the old Another World computer game on the PC. Dark, frightening, violent and relentlessly inventive from start to finish, Mazeworld is second only to Pat Mills', Requiem: Vampire Knight in terms of how unique it is.