Scifi.com are showing the pilot for an animated version of the comic The Amazing Screw On Head. Apparently from the same author as Hellboy (and they’re making sure everyone knows that it’s the same author) it seems as if Sci-Fi are testing the waters with this to see if people like it.

Well, I rather liked it! Don’t go looking for serious highbrow Steampunk, however – it’s more comedic Steampunk/Horror, with werewolves, vampires and zombies quite happily co-existing alongside gentlemen robots, hot air balloons, evil mindreading devices and a clackety cog driven precursor to video-phones in a 19th Century America. It’s a little heavy handed in places, but that may be expected in a pilot (what with a lot of character history being put across).

Verdict: Lighthearted Steampunk/Horror (Lovecraftian?) with a slightly dry sense of humour and a gungho, American attitude. I’d watch again, certainly.

Steampunk Score: 7/10