Very little came out this week that’s worth talking about (except for the DC reprints of Superman’s Pal: Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby. But I want to talk about that for when it got really weird), so it’s to the back catalogue and one of my all-time favorites (pop-pickers). Minimum Wage by Bob Fingerman, published … Read more
Neil Gaimans The Sandman was one of comics most finest slice of story-telling. Alan Moore’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing may have created the Vertigo line, but The Sandman defined it. It also brought about some of the worst aspects of comics. Whilst on one hand it could be witty, daring and exciting, it … Read more
Battle Royale is one of the most innovative movies to come out of Japan in the last few years. I’m sure most of us have seen it so I won’t go into the storyline too much, but a few things always bothered me about it. There was no really good reason for the show. It … Read more
YES!!!!!!!!! They’re BACK, BACK, BACK !!!!!!!!! Its the `80’s all over again as DC let the maniacs back onto the JLA. Believe it or not, the eighties were a great time. Don’t listen to most of the media who deride it,most of them were too young to remember (cue most of those I Love The … Read more
An overdose of books this week as quite a few decent ones have turned up. First off is one that I’ve not started to read yet as its a normal book about comics The Pirates and the Mouse by Bob Levin relates the tale of Dan O’Neill, a popular underground comix artist who fell foul … Read more
The book for this week is about a young, bespectacled lad, from a broken home who suddenly finds out that he’s to be the greatest magician ever. To be trained by some of the most powerful mages and witches, have enemies constantly trying to kill him. Plus, deal with the general pains of growing up. … Read more
Back again with another recommendation. Something weird is happening in the bookshops of America these days. The biggest growth in book-reading amongst the young and teenage market ( and boys especially) is not Mr.Potter and his cohorts but, believe it or not, Manga. Nobody can understand how this came about, but it seems that good … Read more
Where do I start when describing the art of Masamune Shirow? One of the first manga artists I was introduced to, with the Eclipse printings of Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police, I knew straight away that this was an artist/writer I would stick with over the years. And so it has proved. A major influence … Read more
This is #4 in the Powers series and the quality of the writing and art has not suffered in the slightest. Bendis seems to have his finger on the cultural pulse with this story of a group of useless wannabees who give up everything just for the fame and adulation, without realising the repercussions when … Read more
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