Star Wars: The Force Awakens © LucasFilm/Disney Every New Year you always pray that it doesn’t get any worse than the previous one. For me, 2015 proved the non-existence of God or that He just didn’t like the virgin comic book readers that were offered up. Plus, the wife and myself must be some of … Read more
For as long as I can remember I’ve always read comics. Naturally, at the beginning, the vast majority would be British titles with a few DC 80/100 Page Giants and Smash! (Marvel) thrown in before moving onto more American/European and Japanese works. My prose reading may also have changed a lot from when I was … Read more
…we’re never more than Strangers in Paradise. I feel rather sad today. Terry Moore has confirmed in the latest issue of Strangers in Paradise , that issue 90 (May 2007) will be the very last to hit the shelves.I’ve been reading SiP pretty much since it started, and Terry Morre’s artwork has long been my … Read more
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 … Read more
For the purposes of this review I’ll be handing it over to my alternate-Earth counterpart. So, give a big hand for your own Jason King look-alike D’Arce.* HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is this some kind of FREAK-OUT or WHAT!!!!!!!!! HELLO, you groovy hepcats and cool chicks. Many thanks to the big Darcy for contacting me and letting … Read more
The book this week is Swamp Thing: Reunion by Alan Moore and various, published by Vertigo/CD Comics. And…….how can I say this. Well…..umm…..ye see.In truth. They are not very good. WHAT!!!!! I hear you cry. Isn’t this THE Alan Moore? Author of such great and seminal works like V for Vendetta, Miracleman, The Ballad of … Read more
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
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
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