Just a few quick reviews this week as after Collectormania 4 and being on holiday, I need to relax. Fagin the Jew is the latest graphic from the current Grand Master of the comic-book world, Will Eisner. Meant to be a re-telling of Oliver Twist, Eisner found himself more interested in Fagin and the story … Read more
I was waiting until I had received and read my copy of Sandman: Endless Nights to reply to Brons message and I should have written the first part of the review last week but…….. WARNING!!! Following review contains trips down memory lane. I didn’t see the CNN piece but it brought home to mind how … 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
Ok. I’m back and so I’ll have a quick look at some of the stuff that’s been released in the last few weeks and then get back to a fuller review. First up is Bat-Man: Hong Kong by Doug Moench and Tony Wong. This is a companion piece to the earlier manga tale by Kia … 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
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
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