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A brilliant tale of witches, frogs, giant snails and Hemlock……….

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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Hemlock Issues 1 & 2 By Josceline  Fenton I’d seen Josceline Fenton’s Hemlock comic at various conventions, but never seemed to get round to picking up a copy. Stupid, stupid me. So I eventually first saw her work in the latest issue of Paper Science where her strip really, really impressed: “Fenton’s single pager is [...]

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DC The New 52 – this is the end….. till tomorrow

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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All-Star Western #1 By Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Moritat Another Vertigo style book finds a home at the new DC, and a very good book it is. It’s a bit of a team-up, with Jonah Hex washing up in Gotham of the 1880s, a man out of place in the urban jungle, working alongside [...]

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DC52: Flash!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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The Flash #1 By Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato Okay, simple, one-word review for The Flash? Fun. That’s my over-riding emotion from this, my first look at any comic of the scarlet speedster in I don’t know how many years: fun. I had a big soft spot for Flash when I was a kid; he [...]

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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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DC 52 goes a bit Vertigo: All Star Western and I, Vampire

Monday, October 3, 2011

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I, Vampire #1 By Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino Fialkov and Sorrentino’s I, Vampire has a bit of an odd feel to it – like All Star Western #1 (see below) it seems on first inspection to be a strange bedfellow for the rest of DC’s massive New 52 relaunch as both pretty much [...]

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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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DC The New 52…. The Flash & New Guardians…. two ring tales….

Friday, September 30, 2011

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Flash #1 By Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato First of all, I really like that cover, it does a damn fine job of throwing me right into the book. Manapul’s an artist turned writer, and it shows straight off, there’s a little scene setting…. Barry and date at a tech symposium party, little chat… nothing [...]

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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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DC The New 52; Week 4 kicks off with Justice League Dark and Voodoo…. one is good, the other ….

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Right, here we go, the final 13 of the whole new 52 thing from DC. This could be quite an impressive week really, with two marked out as something I’m rather expecting to like, a couple of dark horses I fancy a punt on, and a couple I really don’t think are for me. And [...]

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