Batman

Friday’s round-up. Offering both good and bad news for Croydon.

Cosplay record breaking at MCM Expo 2008 by internets_dairy The geek will inherit the Earth, or at least London, this month. Having grown steadily over the years London Games Festival 2010 is the biggest videogame culture event to take place in the capital in, well… …

Tucked into a convenient nook beneath an elevator at Harrods, Comic Timing is a thoughtfully curated exhibition of original artwork by British comic book writers and artists. As the curators note, comic art has long been seen as a disposable medium – the “off cuts” …

Just as the Dark Knight has its European Premiere in Leicester Square, news comes to Londonist of a different sort of Joker in town. Same wheels, different agenda. The jovial character in question is a wealthy Arab. He may have thought he was buying into …

The Bat-Hype has peaked and the Dark Knight is finally with us (if the London Met don’t get him first). The only question left to ask is, does it live up to the insane levels of expectation? The lovers have already voted it the greatest …

Difficult to avoid the Bat-hype machine this week, as the release of The Dark Knight has prompted calls for a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger. Luckily, as always, London provides for those who don’t necessarily want the latest marketing churn poured down their throat. For …

Harriet Harman woke up to the sound of overweight superheroes clambering on her roof this morning – for the second time in as many months. Two more Fathers4Justice campaigners have scaled her roof, unfurling a banner saying ‘Stop the War on Dads’ in the process, …