West – Autumn Dusk By Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable Autumn Dusk is the final comic in West Volume II. It is, as everything Cheverton and Keable have created with Jerusalem West, a quite stunning thing. But final parts of a volume are troublesome things to talk about. Because I’ve talked plenty of Jerusalem West [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Thunder Brother: Soap Division Issue 5: Mind Your Language By Paul Rainey Okay, episode 5 of Rainey’s Thunder Brother, and you should have the idea by now. But for those of you at the back who weren’t paying attention, it goes like this: Imagine a world where the TV soaps weren’t just TV soaps but [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 20, 2013
Blood Blokes Issue 3 By Adam Cadwell This Life with vampires. It was a lazy comparison when I made it with issue 1, but for anyone who knows what I’m talking about it’s such an easy and obvious and right comparison when you’re talking about Cadwell’s slacker vamp soap-opera. What Cadwell’s doing here is quite [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 17, 2013
Largo Winch Volume 12: The Way And The Virtue By Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook By now trying to review Largo Winch has become something of an exercise in swapping the words around. It’s not like reviewing a movie franchise where there’s the variation derived from different actors, directors, and styles. But a Van [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 16, 2013
Reads – Issue 3 By Stephen Horry, Ricky Miller, Tim Bird, MJ & Cameron Wallace, Luke Halsall, Static Girl, OD Pomery . Cover by Coleen Campbell Avery Hill Publishing Coleen Campbell delivers the cover to introduce the third volume of the Reads anthology, which gets to its third issue. And it’s a mixed one… good, but not great. More interesting than [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Whale House – Part Two By Andrew Cheverton and Chris Doherty Why are you here? What do you want? Two questions on the back cover of this second issue of Whale House, a comic that set itself up with issue one to be a grand mystery, spooky and teasing, and all of those questions [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 14, 2013
7 String Volume 1 By Nich Angell If you’re after hi-concept sci-fi and fantasy, Scott Pilgrim with a little more Blade Runner and less downtown Toronto, Game Of Thrones with guitar swords, (or as the back cover points out) Star Wars crossed with Guitar Hero, Nich Angell’s 7 String pretty much ticks all the boxes. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 13, 2013
Holiday By Simon Moreton Simon Moreton‘s developing into a real star for me, and just the thought of being able to peruse a new comic by him makes me smile, as I know just what I’ll get out of it; that sense of wonder, of looking at the world through an artist’s eyes, made new [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 11, 2013
Each month I (usually) end up reviewing a fair amount of stuff, but there’s lots to read on the blog and occasionally I worry that these great books just don’t get the exposure they deserve. Hey presto, do a best of the month post and use the opportunity to tell you once more about something [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 3, 2013
Halcyon & Tenderfoot Issue 4 (of 4) By Daniel Cifford and Lee Robinson Art Heroes Reviewing final issues of a series is always troublesome, especially short series. How to discuss the latest issue, and give an overview of the series without giving away some key facts? I’m not one for spoilers if I can avoid [...]
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
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