Deadpool and Wolverine
With Deadpool & Wolverine giving the MCU the rocket-fuel it desperately needed; it’s fascinating to read about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans over the creation of Wolverine.
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Graphic Novels of the Year 2016
2016. Jesus, where even to start. If it was not everyone dying (so much that you began to feel left out), it was people making weird and strange decisions.
The Best Comics You Should Be Reading (and are not) #1
I love comics. You love comics. We all love comics.
Graphic Novels of the Year 2015
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
Best. Birthday. Present. Ever
Last year I turned 50. Not so much of a big deal for me; with the advances in healthy living and medical treatments I expect – barring accidents – to live well into my nineties. But for the wife it was, so to find a special present was the order of the day. Now I’m … Read more
New York, I Love You…
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
Welcome My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends
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 … Read more
Without Love…
…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
Round and Round and Round
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
Buttons, Bangles and Bows
Whilst looking through the site with a colleague from my place of work, I went onto BOTW and started going through some of the reviews. Now I didn’t tell my co-worker that I was the one who wrote the reviews but his remark was succinct: “What are they doing, reviewing or writing the books?” My … Read more
