Tag Archive | "Propaganda"

Blake & Mortimer – I find much to praise at the Gondwana Shrine and find beauty and brilliance in the details…

Monday, September 19, 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer Volume 11 – The Gonwana Shrine By Yves Sente and Andre Juillard Cinebook I was a latecomer to the world of Blake and Mortimer; Edgar P. Jacobs’ classic British adventure duo of the dashing spy and the studious professor. And although I initially found it a little tiresome and [...]

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DC – The New 52… Week 2 starts with Bats

Friday, September 16, 2011

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Another week begins… another 13 titles from the new, all back to number 1 DC Universe. So far week 1 rather impressed. A fair number of the comics involved were good enough to make me be on the lookout for second issues. More than that, I found myself enjoying this new, almost continuity free DC [...]

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Hitsville UK – a hit, oh such a hit

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Hitsville UK issue 1 Written by Dan Cox and John Riordan, art by John Riordan “No expense accounts, or lunch discounts, or hypeing up the charts, The band went in, ‘n knocked ‘em dead, in 2 minutes 59″ “No slimy deals, with smarmy eels – in Hitsville U.K. Lets shake’n say, we’ll operate – in [...]

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Wrapping up the reviews of the DC 52 week 1…. Animal Man, Men Of War, Batwing, Hawk & Dove… one of these comics isn’t very good…

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Oh my word, how time catches up with us. Today is the first day of the new DC Comics 52 second week. Which means it’s desperately quick catch up time here. So far we’ve covered a few, liked a few, thought a few were okay, and didn’t like a couple. Here’s the very last batch [...]

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More DC New 52 reviews…. Batgirl, Detective and Static Shock

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Okay, time for more DC New 52 reviews. I promised myself (in one of those stupid promises you make to yourself late at night) that I was definitely going to review at least the first full week of these comics. To be honest, I thought it would be more of a chore than it has been. I’m [...]

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DC The New 52 – young Superman, Swamp Thing and a JLI

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Okay, here we go, the big push to get the DC 52 Week 1 done and dusted. Straight into it then…. Action Comics #1 By Grant Morrison and Rags Morales Right, I really, really need to get a) a move on and b) some sleep, so for Action Comics #1 just go and read James’ [...]

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Lots of paper, lots of cardboard… the My Cardboard Life Book

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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My Cardboard Life Book By Phillipa Rice If you’ve been following Philippa Rice’s My Cardboard Life over the last few years as we have you’ll already be aware of just how much pure, unadulterated fun it is. If you haven’t then this 118 page collection of comics from the first two years of My Cardboard [...]

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Revisiting Valerian…..

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Valerian Volume 2: The Empire Of A Thousand Planets By Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook Now, I was extremely nonplussed by the first Valerian book from Cinebook, much to the good natured horror of many commenters and twitterers, who assured me it was a thing of genius, the thing that got them into comics, [...]

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Secret Avengers – Ellis and McKelvie. Two very good reasons.

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Secret Avengers #16 By Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie Marvel Comics Why? Because I’m feeling slightly guilty over the amount of DC coverage we’ve been putting up recently. Because it’s Warren Ellis writing and Jamie McKelvie drawing. Because it’s got the Beast and Black Widow in. Because I’ve always been a Marvel boy at heart [...]

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Paragon Issue 8

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Paragon Issue 8 Written by Mark Howard, Dirk Van Dom, The Emporer, Mark McLaughlin Art by Dave Candlish, Stephen Prestwood, James Corcoran Published by Dave Candlish Another issue of Paragon, under a really nice Jikan cover by Chris Askham. Five strips, four stories, and pretty much the same problem I had with Paragon last time. I [...]

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Fish + Chocolate = a flawed work of lyrical, literate beauty

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Fish + Chocolate By Kate Brown SelfMadeHero Kate Brown, on the basis of Fish + Chocolate and her 2010 debut Spider-Moon, is a rising star, and has incredible potential. But here, with just her second major work, it’s not quite all there yet. She’s stretching herself, and I applaud that, but she reaches just that [...]

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The Lengths Issue 3

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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The Lengths Issue 3 By Howard Hardiman We’re on something of a Lengths roll here at the blog, simply because I was terminally late with the review of issue 2, which then led straight into the recent preview of issue 3 and now, just a short while later, a review of issue 3. To get some [...]

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Something Reductive – the comic diaries of James Nash continue….

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Something Reductive – Diary Comics 2010 By James Nash We looked at James Nash’s diary comics The Present Is Not A Purgatory (Diary Comics 2008) and Speaking Not Knowing (Diary Comics 2009) last year, and I was very impressed, both with his innovative “skyscraper format” (as coined by Matthew Craig) of A3 sized sheets folded [...]

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Vanguard… a hit and miss new anthology…

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Vanguard – Issue 1 Written by Dirk Van Dom. Art by David Blankley, Louis Carter, El Chivo, Owen Watts, Cover art by Liam Byrne. Vanguard is a new anthology series put together and featuring four strips all written by Dirk Van Dom. Van Dom’s previously featured on the FPI blog as the writer of Icarus [...]

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Propaganda’s Best Of August…

Saturday, September 3, 2011

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We review a lot here at the FPI Blog and thought it might be nice to do a quick round up, a best of the month if you will. After a July that lacked much to shout about, August proved to be a bumper, bumper month, with eight titles up for consideration. However, to do [...]

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