![]() Things start off bleak and only get worse from there but it’s an enthralling narrative that never lets up.Īs stellar as Tomlin’s writing is, the true star here is Lee Bermejo on art. Setting the events during the Civil Rights movement is both important, yet disheartening, especially when our protagonist plainly states how very little has truly changed in the decades since. He ultimately reveals very little, raising about as many questions as he answers, while still only teasing what the story is truly about. Clocking in at just about fifty pages, this book is twice as long as your standard comic but Tomlin manages to keep the story at a tight pace. Writer Mattson Tomlin has a lot to say with this first issue and a lot of it is hard to hear. Soon secrets are revealed and motivations questioned as the two enemies square off, from the far-off future to the distant past, with death and despair following them at every turn. Nightmares haunt Thacker and when one such nightmare becomes real, he ends up chasing his former captive across space and time. This monster is seemingly a man from another time but whose goal is in direct opposition to his captor’s. The story begins in 1960 and follows the exploits of Shawn Thacker, a man “from the future” living with a wife and son, along with a monster he keeps in the basement. It’s incredible and beautiful and depressing as f***. It’s an intense, weird cyberpunk fantasy with an underlying theme of how those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. ![]() It’s a dynamic character study of a man who is determined to do what he believes to be right, even in the wake of unspeakable tragedy. It’s a time-travel epic with shades of “The Terminator” and “Looper” but with a conceit that is purely original. I mean, there is a lot to unpack with this book but let’s start with the genre. All the players are professionals, even if relatively unknown in this country, then or now.A Vicious Circle is…hard to put into words. ![]() Since neither of the two were on hand, all we have is a mildly amusing puzzle to undo, nothing more, but nothing less, either. Either Cornell Woolrich (author) or Alfred Hitchcock (director) or the combination thereof, could have taken the first 20 minutes and run for a mile with it. Latimer all that seriously, alleviating most of the suspense. One large problem is that it is clear that the detective from Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Dane (Roland Culver), does not take the case against Dr. There is an attempt to explain all this, and it’s a pretty good attempt too, until the movie’s over and you wonder what on earth were you thinking? This is also one of those movies that is too complicated for its own good. Two guesses what the blunt instrument was that caused the death of the woman in his apartment? Or in whose car it is found? Not helping either is the patient who’s been referred to him by another doctor (who has never seen her), but who complains not only of migraines but also of dreams involving a body and a brass candlestick. The dead girl is in Latimer’s apartment when he returns later. This time around, the dead girl is an actress from Germany that a producer friend (just in from the US) asks him to pick up at the airport.Īccompanying him to the airport is a newspaper reporter who (as it turns out) the paper never heard of, nor is the producer even in the country. Howard Latimer (John Miles), finds himself trapped in a series of strange events that culminate in his being the number one suspect in a case of murder. This is one of those movies in which the hero, in this case Dr. Screenplay: Francis Durbridge, based on his BBC-TV serial, My Friend Charles. John Mills, Derek Farr, Noelle Middleton, Wilfrid Hyde White, Roland Culver, Mervyn Johns, Rene Ray, Lionel Jeffries.
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