Tag Archive | "Propaganda"

The Sun Sword … very likely my last Thorgal

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Thorgal Volume 10 – The Sun Sword By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Oh I do swing too and fro with my enjoyment of Thorgal; Van Hamme and Rosinski’s legendary sword and sorcery saga. Here’s my first take on it – Volumes 1-6: So Thorgal was enjoyable enough, indeed it was a lot [...]

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Tantalize – Kieren’s Story

Monday, October 3, 2011

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Tantalize – Kieren’s Story By Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Ming Doyle Candlewick / Walker “As a hybrid werewolf, Kieren is destined to join an urban Wolf pack and learn to master his shift. Soon he’ll leave everything behind: home, school, his family, and Quincie, his human best friend … who’s beginning to be [...]

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Marvel Guilt reviews…. Ultimate Spider-Man #2

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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As the DC New 52 rolls to a stop for this first month, I get another pang of guilt that I’m leaving poor old Marvel out of the picture….. luckily they happen to have a load of great reboot comics of their own…. the Marvel Ultimate Universe I really enjoyed the first set last month [...]

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DC The New 52 – a Dark Knight and another ex-Robin…

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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Teen Titans #1 By Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth First glance, this played into every bad feeling I had about this new DC thing – the reach of Image extending through the company, and all the exaggerated, ridiculous imagery that entails. Brett Booth’s art in those first few pages seemed to prove it as well, [...]

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Guilty Marvel reviewing again…. Daredevil #4

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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Right in the middle of looking at the whole DC New 52 thing I had a stupid pang of guilt about doing too much DC and not enough Marvel. Like I said, stupid. So on top of the 52 DC new number 1s I had a quick look at Marvel to see what was available. [...]

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Propaganda’s Best Of September…..

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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Time for the monthly roundup of the best of what I reviewed last month. Although it has been a weird, weird month…. DC have practically destroyed me with their 52 new number 1s, and to top it all I decided to balance it out with a few Marvel reviews. My head is all over the [...]

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DC The New 52…. a Hawkman, two Nuclear Men, and a big, dumb and so much fun Blackhawk action adventure

Saturday, October 1, 2011

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Blackhawks #1 By Mike Costa, Graham Nolan and Ken Lashley I’m doing this set of reviews in the wrong order, just so I can open with something nice to say. It goes downhill after this. Right at the bottom you’ll find a review of Firestorm. That was a big, dumb, stupid, comic where everything was [...]

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Gingerbread Girl – whimsical, frothy, fun… but lacking that extra pinch of darkness..

Friday, September 30, 2011

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Gingerbread Girl By Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover Top Shelf First off – a quick note on that cover. Tim Leong’s design skills really make the book stand out on the shelf, and the clever reversal of the images on the book’s back cover very graphically mirror what we’re about to read inside. Now mental [...]

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1,2,3,4…. The Daltons are back to annoy Lucky Luke

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 30 – The Daltons’ Escape By Morris & Goscinny Cinebook Regular as clockwork, the next volume of Lucky Luke appears. It’s so nice to be able to say that, and hopefully by now you’ll be well aware of how much fun it is to be able to settle down every other month [...]

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Rob Jackson’s Flying Leaf Creature

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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Flying Leaf Creature By Rob Jackson I do like Rob Jackson’s comics, their mix of absurdity and a knowing, sardonic sense of humour usually makes me smile a lot of the way through. Even when he’s telling a fairly serious story there’s something in the way he phrases things that brings a smile to my [...]

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Darwin’s Diaries…. not the mild mannered naturalist you thought….

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Darwin’s Diaries Volume 1: The Eye Of The Celts By Sylvain Runberg and Eduardo Ocana Cinebook You want strange concept? Try this on for size – Charles Darwin gets roped in by the Prime Minister to investigate a particularly series of gruesome murders in Yorkshire that look like the work of some as yet unidentified [...]

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DC The New 52 Week 3 – Birds, Beetles…. and not Doctor Manhattan, certainly not….

Monday, September 26, 2011

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We’re over halfway through the new DC 52, and of all four weeks, this was the one I was least looking forward to. In those 12 comics, there was only one that looked particularly interesting (Wonder Woman – and Oli East has already told you it’s good in his own inimitable style earlier today). The [...]

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Tuk Tuk – an Only Fools and Horses fantasy adventure. Brilliant.

Monday, September 26, 2011

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Tuk Tuk By Will Kirkby I’ve talked of Will Kirkby before, with his Peckham strip in the Birdsong/Songbird anthology and Rogue Trooper strip in the 2000AD fanzine Nu-Earth real highlights. Both looked gorgeous, but Peckham showed he had the storytelling to match the Paul Pope-esque Manga stylised mania of his artwork. Tuk Tuk has been [...]

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Daredevil – The Man Without Fear becomes the Man who puts it all behind him, cracks a smile and just gets on with it…..

Sunday, September 25, 2011

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Daredevil Issues 1-3 By Mark Waid, Paulo Rivera, Joe Rivera. So The Man Without Fear returns from another journey into madness and depression and seems to have adopted the simple mantra of…. ignore it all and be happy. Not the best treatment for a man with his continued mental issues, and not one anybody with [...]

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Ultimate X-Men #1 – this makes the new Ultimate line four for four…..

Sunday, September 25, 2011

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Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1 By Nick Spencer, Paco Medina and Juan Vlasco Well, at the risk of sounding oh so predicable after I’ve enjoyed Ultimates, Ultimate Hawkeye and Ultimate Spider-Man, I’ve got to say that with this first issue of the new Ultimate X-Men, I’m finding an awful lot of good things about this new [...]

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