Comics can be a lot of things. As part of the entertainment and mass media industry, comic’s can- and are- be used for both enjoyment and education. But in their quest to be seen as a viable and important literary genre, a lot of writers, artists and critics forget what it was that brought them … Read more
Old age and all the regrets and musings about life it brings happen to us all. Have no doubt about this. We will grow old and die. This is the natural order of things, and I would not wish for it to be any different. Advances in science and social life may mean that I … Read more
Well into the saga of Omaha, in a double page of silent snapshots, the writer Kate Worley and artist Reed Waller depict what some of the characters are doing on Christmas Day morning. Amongst the photos is one of JoAnne Follett. JoAnne has been in the story since the beginning and been shown to be … Read more
Epic This is a word that should not be bandied around lightly. For such a small word, it can conjure up vast panoramas, lengthy tales of adventure and valour, struggle against over-whelming odds, the very majesty of life and nature itself. Indeed, a word to be used with care. What it does not stand for, … Read more
A mixed bag this week. So let’s get down to it:- First up is Battle Vixens from Yugi Shiozaki and published by Tokyopop. The tale of Hakufu Sonsaku, a teenage schoolgirl who loves nothing more than a good kick-ass battle. An unwitting member of a mystic sect of warriors (whose ancestors tried to re-unite China, … Read more
And so, finally it has come to the end. All hail, and farewell, Cerebus. Like all long sagas, it has an unsatisfactory ending. With more questions than answers, but even within this, as Cerebus sees his life flash before his eyes, Sim manages to get one last fart joke in. Does Cerebus die, as he … Read more
Today, under your very noses, there is a crime being committed. This cruelty is being enacted by rank amateurs, wielding precision instruments, inflicting the utmost pain, and suffering upon their subjects. As they sit, in the glare of their computer screens, inputting data that can fundamentally alter the look and genetic make-up of their helpless … Read more
Excitement, mayhem and adventure are the order of the day as the Digger girls return. The first Gold Brick collection to be in color sees Gina, Britanny and Brianna going to such places as the Halls of the Extremely Dead, Muthia, the local shopping mall, Jade and the Explorers Society Banquet. Meet such diverse creatures … Read more
Ok. I have something of a confession to make. I love old, dark house movies. Baronial mansions fog bound on lonely moors or in swamps, trapdoors, hidden passages in the library, sinister butlers, clocks that strike thirteen, Bob Hope, bogus policemen, families with dark secrets, disappearing bodies, clawed hands coming out of the paneling, cats, … Read more
It’s a sad fact in every comic-book reader’s life, that we all get jaded by the genre now and then. Plots get repetitive, art seems more and more slap-dash, writers run out of good ideas and then want to inflict everything they see as wrong with the world upon the poor reader, who wants nothing … Read more
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