Reviews

Whodunnit?

January 22, 2012

The latest series of Sherlock has just finished it’s run on BBC1 and got everyone abuzz with how Sherlock faked his death. Lots of theories and bullshit about masks, the H.O.U.N.D. drug and fake bodies being thrown from the rooftop of St.Barts. The probable truth is, as Jim Moriarty would say, a lot simpler. Holmes [...]

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Books of the Year 2011

December 4, 2011

It’s December! That means it’s Top Whatever and wall-to-wall list shows on television, digital and print media. Not wanting to be left out and believing that my views are just as important as anyone on the Internet, here’s my best of the comics world in 2011. All the selected are graphic novels, whether collected or [...]

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New books on the iPad

July 21, 2011

Although there is debate on whether these latest items on the Apple Store are ebooks or apps they are definitely worth a look: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore T.S.Elliot’s The Wasteland and this: Kadath: Guide to the Unknown City Kadath is not available yet, but I’m looking forward to getting into the [...]

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iProd..

February 3, 2010

.. at my screen for a bit with a Pogo Stylus. Having eagerly awaited the new shiny rectangle from Apple I cannot deny I was among the throng hopping up and down ogling the live feed on Twit.tv .. well when I say hop, I really mean shuffle my rear end about in my chair [...]

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Interacter-Bubble Hearth

January 18, 2010

Before I marvel at the latest funky tool on the World of Warcraft armory, there’s been a few pretty decent reviews of Polar Panic I’d like to link to. Gamers Daily News, Game Chronicles and Game Vortex. We got a particularly warm and fuzzy feeling from this para on Game Vortex: Be sure to check [...]

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Slapping it On

June 13, 2009

I recently decided it was about time I bought Painter, what with the latest version getting lauded for a 30% performance boost. So I did a strange little dance with Amazon – I bought painter 9.5 (full program) for the bargain price of £43, including delivery. Then I ordered Painter 11 (upgrade) for £109.00. Why? [...]

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Welcome My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends

January 23, 2006

Walt and Skeezix is an absolute joy of a book. A project of publishers Drawn and Quarterly and Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), the idea is to put the complete Gasoline Alley strip, from its very beginnings onwards, back into print and restore this forgotten masterpiece to the reading world. Creator Frank O. King started the [...]

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Round and Round and Round

August 3, 2005

With all that has happened in London in the last couple of weeks Will Eisner’s last work has gained a kind of relevance that he did not intend- it does after all deal with a specific theme- but sharpens into focus how humanity, for all its advances, still has an intense suspicion and dislike for [...]

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