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Róisín Dubh

9. June 2011

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Róisín Dubh Maura McHugh, Stephen Daly Atomic Diner (cover art to Roisin Dubh #1 by Stephen Byrne) This comic comes loaded, baby. Filled with modern Chick Power, a dangerous mix of brilliance and style with a political reality lurking just under the surface. One of the writers, Maura McHugh is a fairly well known blogger. [...]

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The delights of The Little Endless – The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party

8. June 2011

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The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party By Jill Thompson Based on The Endless characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg DC/Vertigo There’s a joy in listening to a story being read to you, and likewise there’s a joy in reading aloud for someone else. We read all sorts of books to Molly [...]

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Stray Bullets – Jerusalem West’s adventures continue….

7. June 2011

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Stray Bullets: A West Anthology Written by Andrew Cheverton, Illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Jenika Ioffreda, Paul Rainey, Emma Price, Tim Keable and Andrew Cheverton Angry Candy I loved the collected West Volume 1: Justice and the 2 issue series Distance (issue 1, issue 2) that started off Volume 2. One of the best things of last [...]

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Orbital gets political and much better for it….

6. June 2011

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Orbital Volume 3: Nomads By Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé Cinebook I didn’t do my research at the end of the first couple of volumes of Orbital (reviews – Volume 1 & Volume 2) and really thought it was a simple two volume series. But what I did see I thought was a decent enough [...]

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Propaganda’s 3 from… May 2011

4. June 2011

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Here’s the May edition of the roundup of my three favourites of the things reviewed on the blog this month…. Cindy and Biscuit By Dan White “…..that’s what Cindy and Biscuit does to me, each and every time of the multiple readings so far – it fills my heart with simple joy and then breaks it [...]

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Vampire Vixens

3. June 2011

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As Wasted comes to an end after eight issues and joins comic magazines such as Dodgem Logic and DFC with those other titles that looked so brilliant such as Toxic, Blast and Deadline in the great comic book Library in the sky, James Bacon looks at a story that seems to have captured the imagination. [...]

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Obselete – despair writ large upon the page in beautiful, evocative style.

2. June 2011

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Obselete By Mikkel Sommer Nobrow Press Mikkel Sommer’s Obselete is another of Nobrow’s 17×23 series – short comics produced with all the quality and beauty of Nobrow’s graphic novels, but allowing the artists to try out new things – and for Nobrow to try out new artists. As always with Nobrow, it’s beautifully put together, [...]

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Four from Toon Books – a magnificent debut from our youngest reviewers Katy (8) and Lucy (7)

31. May 2011

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Here at the FPI blog we’re very keen on Toon Books; the graphic novel series designed for the youngest of readers. But I’m definitely not the target readership, no matter how much I try to think younger. And even when I get my 11 year-old Molly to review them I still feel she’s slightly too [...]

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If you go down to the woods today – you’ll read a lovely, gentle, funny little Toon Book.

28. May 2011

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Patrick in A Teddy Bears Picnic And Other Stories By Geoffrey Hayes Toon Books There was a time, not so long ago, that the old credo of “comics aren’t just for kids anymore” suddenly seemed to be closer to “comics aren’t for kids at all anymore“. Thankfully, over the last few years this has been [...]

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Sgt. Mike Battle – Hero of Britain?

26. May 2011

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Sgt. Mike Battle: The Greatest American British Hero #16 By Graham Pierce Pier C Comics Mike Battle, chisel jawlined, nazi hating, commie hating, taliban hating, hero of the American people. If there’s someone even looking at America in the wrong way – he’s there, stomping all over them. It’s all ridiculously overblown, but deliberately so, [...]

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Spandex Issue 4 – O.M.F.G.

25. May 2011

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Spandex Issue 4: O.M.F.G Part One – True Colours By Martin Eden Spandex is Martin Eden’s multi-coloured superhero series set in Brighton. With the previous three issues (reviews #1, 2, and 3) the quality has been building and building with each issue. Issues 1 and 2 introduced the various characters in this all-gay superteam soap [...]

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Strange things happen Underground….

24. May 2011

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Underground By Cliodhna It wasn’t all that long ago that I was reviewing the last thing pulished by Cliodhna – The October Anthology. And I did rather like her stuff included inside: “……a great little 4 pager on star gazing and low flying aircraft …. Clioodhna’s style is very now, very easy on the eye and [...]

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Sugar Glider Stories Issue 1. Too much? Too soon?

20. May 2011

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Sugar Glider Stories #1 Written by Daniel Clifford and Gary Bainbridge. Art by Gary Bainbridge, Daniel Clifford, Martin Eden, Matthew Craig, Graham Pearce & Jim Cameron, Lee Grice, Andrew Waugh, Martin Newman & The Christian, Dan Gilmore, Simon Cavanagh, Kevin ‘Gio’ Logue, James Cornell and Ian Mayor. Sugar Glider Stories is an anthology style comic, [...]

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Mega Moggies and a nice cuppa. Bostin!

19. May 2011

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Bostin’ Heroes Issue 3 Written by Matthew Craig, art by Rich Johnson and Paul Eldridge. The third issue of the Black Country superhero title (reviews of #1,#2), and we’ve two stories of our Yam-Yam heroes, assembled by a mysterious entity underneath Dudley Castle. Dudley’s the place of my birth and I’m rather fond of it, [...]

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More Blake & Mortimer…..

18. May 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer Volume 10: The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent By Yves Sente and Andre Juillard Cinebook I’m learning to persevere with Blake & Mortimer and thank goodness, because it’s staring to pay off. Despite my continuing problems with the exposition laden heavy dialogue and plotting, the whole thing came together [...]

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