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Valerian & Laureline – The Land Without Stars.
Valerian And Laureline Volume 3: The Land Without Stars Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divided [...]
Continue reading...Psircus
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Psircus Issue 1 – The Origins of Kathy and Icarus Written by Daniel Bell, art by Katja Lindblom, Iain Buchanan, Daniel Bell Yes, PT Barnum presents…. yes, the same PT Barnum who runs the circus. Except in here, it’s the Psircus he’s running, the Psircus being a way for writer (and sometime artist) Daniel Bell [...]
Continue reading...Spirou and Fantasio… reporters and adventurers
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Spirou & Fantasio: Running Scared Written by Philippe Vandevelde (Tome), illustrated by Jean-Richard Geurts (Janry) Cinebook Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of [...]
Continue reading...SPOOKS – Weird Enforcement Special Team
Monday, May 21, 2012
SPOOKS Volume 1: The Fall Of Babylon By Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury, art by Christian Rossi Cinebook “1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. [...]
Continue reading...Haunted Bowels
Friday, May 18, 2012
Haunted Bowels – Collected Comics Volume 1 By Craig Collins, Dave Alexander, James Corcoran, Iain Laurie, Paul McCann, Rob Miller, Nulsh, Curt Sibling, Robert Thomson and Jacek Zabawa. Craig Collins has featured here on the blog already in 2011 with his and Iain Laurie’s Roachwell collection. That was a seemingly disconnected slightly absurdist collection of strips, one and two-pagers that managed to become [...]
Continue reading...Largo Winch – the priceless thriller that’s all about the money…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Largo Winch Volumes 9 & 10: The Price Of Money & The Law Of The Dollar Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook Okay… here’s the blurb… The Price Of Money: “A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his [...]
Continue reading...Crisp Biscuit Comics #2
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Crisp Biscuit Comics #2 By Robert Wells Issue 2 of Rob Wells’ Crisp Biscuit Comics – and apart from the upgraded paper stock and the crisper printing, it’s essentially more of the same from issue 1 – reviewed back in 2011. But don’t misunderstand me – more of the same is not necessarily a bad [...]
Continue reading...Lucky Luke – Volume 34 – gags over plot this time…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Lucky Luke Volume 34 – The Daltons; Always On The Run By Goscinny and Morris Cinebook “A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn’t happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It’s all an act, though, and it doesn’t take long for [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda – Best Of April 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Lots of comics get reviewed here on the FPI Blog each month, and sometimes I worry that they’re not getting enough blog time, hence each month I like to do something to pick the very best of the previous month’s reviews…. A little late perhaps, but here they are: The Hunting Party By Pierre Christin [...]
Continue reading...XIII Volume 12 – The Trial
Friday, May 11, 2012
XIII Volume 12 – The Trial By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Called back to the USA by the frantic government, McLane and Jones discover that General Carrington has kidnapped Wally Sheridan, President of the United States! Holed up in a secret base he’s turned into a fortress, Carrington intends to put Sheridan [...]
Continue reading...The Lion And The Unicorn – pretty, yet ultimately empty….
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Lion And The Unicorn – Volume Zero, Issue 1 Created by Ashram J Pure, featuring Jonny Wong, Javvy M Royle, Roland Hammed, Zack Slatter Okay, where to start? Good or bad? Let’s go with the good and get to the bad later. But if you’re after a quick summary The Lion & The Unicorn [...]
Continue reading...Verity returns….
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
VerityFair Issue 4 By Terry Wiley IDCM I’ve waffled on plenty in the past about Terry Wiley, about his collaborations with McKinnon and Kermode, about how Sleaze Castle is something of a lost epic. (Luckily, lost no longer – see details at the end of this piece.) Well, this is VerityFair, and VerityFair is Terry [...]
Continue reading...Go Team Science! Darryl Cunningham busts some myths
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Science Tales: Lies, Hoaxes, and Scams By Darryl Cunningham Myriad Editions After the emotional, highly personal experiences contained within Psychiatric Tales, Darryl Cunningham turns his cartoonist’s eye to the world of science. In the process he documents the struggles of rigorous scientific method to overcome the lies, hoaxes, and scams perpetuated upon us by the [...]
Continue reading...Too Much Sex & Violence #3
Monday, May 7, 2012
Too Much Sex & Violence Issue 3 Written by Rol Hirst, art by Adrian Bamforth, Kelvin Green, Stephen Prestwood, Nigel Lowry, Andrew Cheverton, Martin Eden, Chris Askham, Rob Wells, Davey Metcalfe-Carr Third issue of the series that Rol Hirst describes as: “Welcome to the northern seaside town of Fathomsby; home to retired super-heroes, monster DJs, mutant prostitutes, [...]
Continue reading...Windrush Issue 1
Friday, May 4, 2012
Windrush Issue 1 By T’Sao Wei Okay, Windrush is a quality little comic, interesting genre twist, the quirky, edgy end of the superhero spectrum, rough, raw, wearing its flaws right out front. But beside those obvious flaws sits something intriguing, something good. It’s strangely formatted; hand bound A4, cotton binding up the edge, no spine. [...]
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