The biggest character in UK comics is set to get a new lease of life on the other side of the Black Atlantic this autumn as US publisher IDW announced they have been talking to 2000 AD’s owners Rebellion on creating a new series of Judge Dredd comics. The range will include new stories as [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 8, 2012
And probably one for many people’s best of 2012 lists. The third Volume of Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of Richard Stark’s Parker is out from IDW in May. Entitled The Score, IDW’s Chris Ryall was good enough to share this promo piece online:
Continue reading...Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Fish Police – Volume 1: Hairballs By Steve Moncuse IDW Oh, never go back, never go back…… It wasn’t long ago I was talking about the re-release of Steve Moncuse’s The Fish Police: “There’s almost part of me that’s terrified of picking this one up – will it live up to the memories? Only [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 14, 2011
Here’s the thing. I love Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series. Love it – and both beautiful hardback volumes – Parker: The Hunter and Parker: The Outfit are on the bookshelf. I thought the idea in summer 2010 to put the first chapter of The Outfit out as a preview comic – The Man With The Getaway Face [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 20, 2011
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Kill Shakespeare Volume 1: A Sea Of Troubles Created and written by Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, Art by Andy Belanger. IDW Some books come at you with great art, some great writing, some both. Then there’s another type of book, the type that comes at you with an absolute, guaranteed hook of a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 15, 2010
Every week at our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham, Michael picks a couple of comics arriving on Thursday that he thinks will stand out on the shelves as something special. And most weeks, he writes them up for the Superfriends Of Nostalgia & Comics blog. Now, in what we’re hoping will be a regular [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 29, 2010
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The mere image of Bill the Cat still cracks me up even after all these years. The drink, the fling with right wing Republican women, the Soviet spying case, the fame, the furballs, the dubious legal advice from Mr Steve Dallas… Ack, ack, thhppttt… Oh, pardon me, hairball in the throat… The second volume of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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(cover to The Activate Primer HC, published IDW) Hitting the shelves tomorrow, the Activate Primer collection from IDW. Regular readers will know that the Activate webcomics collective is one of my very favourite online reads and its terrific to see a print collection of some of their works. This volume includes contributions from some brilliant [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
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You may recall I liked Darwyn Cooke’s hard boiled adaptation of Parker. A lot: “Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Variety reports that the recent Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Joe Shuster which Craig Yoe brought to us has been optioned for a possible film.The book reveals a whole hidden, much darker side to the co-creator of the iconic Superman, with adult comics sold covertly and linked by the media to real world [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke IDW Publishing. Bloody hell, this is good. Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But [...]
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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