The Rule Of Death issues 5 & 6 By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Douglas Noble Self-Published I looked at Rule of Death last time with issues 1-4 and thought: “For a book with a man refusing death Goodbrey is never short of a comedy one liner or two. And it’s this refusal to let neither the macabre events [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 2010
It’s a damp Thursday at the end of February, one half of the UK shivers in snow, the other half in dismal rain, but who cares when we can stay in by the fire and listen to the new-fangled wireless type talking entertainments of Alex Fitch. As ever for more information and links to podcasts [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
Necessary Monsters 5 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self-published And here we are, at the end of the five issue first series of Necessary Monsters; Goodbrey and Azzopardi’s monster action-thriller that I’ve reviewed in depth twice before (reviews of issues 1&2 and 3&4). Issue 5 ties it all up nicely, giving us the requisite number of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 25, 2009
We’ve really been enjoying Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s collaboration on Necessary Monsters, in individual issues and online. In fact Richard said of it: “Spy Horror Thrills galore with more than a touch of the magical thrown in. James Bond with Hellblazer characters perhaps. This is Necessary Monsters; a fantastic and fantastical series from [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
Necessary Monsters issue 3 & 4 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self Published. “There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengence, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is the Chain; a covert agency of monsters [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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