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Echo Volume One: Moon Lake
Echo Volume One: Moon Lake by Terry Moore. Abstract Studio I picked up the first issue of Echo; Terry Moore’s first, post Strangers In Paradise series and put it down as one of those that might be interesting to follow once a collection came out. Well, it seems I was right. When these first 5 issues are read [...]
Continue reading...There’s No Time Like The Present 11
Monday, February 15, 2010
There’s No Time Like The Present issue 11 (of 13) by Paul Rainey Self Published. It’s really difficult reviewing this one, since I really don’t want you to read it. At least I don’t want you to read it quite yet. Like I’ve said before, Paul Rainey’s There’s No Time Like The Present series is something you absolutely must [...]
Continue reading...Alan Moore’s Light Of Thy Countenance
Friday, February 12, 2010
Light Of Thy Countenance by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, illustrated by Felipe Massafera Avatar Press (Two covers to Light Of Thy Countenance; left – softcover, right – hardcover) This slim volume is an adaptation of one of Alan Moore’s old prose stories. It’s become rather a popular thing in the last few years to mine every [...]
Continue reading...Pjang 4 – more of those people who just aint no good
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Pjang 4 by Rol Hirst, Chris Askham, Ryan Taylor, Tony McGee, cover by Nigel Lowrey and Davey Metcalfe Self Published The latest issue of Rol Hirst’s Pjang sticks to the format of three short stories per comic, and just about sticks to the title’s theme of “people just ‘aint no good”. It certainly gets off to a great [...]
Continue reading...All the little joys of being in Coupledom….
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Coupledom by Andrew Waugh Self published Here’s a little something that should warm the cockles of anyone who’s a fan of things like Mark Ellerby’s Ellerbisms or Adam Cadwell’s The Everyday. Yes, Coupledom by Andrew Waugh is yet another autobiog strip with pretty pictures, cartoony style and a focus on the daily life and relationship of the cartoonist [...]
Continue reading...A Study In Scarlet – Holmes & Watson are back for the first time
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sherlock Holmes – A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted by Ian Edginton and I.N.J.Culbard SelfMadeHero The second in SelfMadeHero’s Sherlock Holmes adaptations gets it’s release at almost the perfect time, hot on the heels of the recent big budget, and by all accounts rather entertaining movie outing with Robert Downey and Jude Law. The [...]
Continue reading...Douglas Noble’s Live Static – difficult, complex, brilliant.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Strip For Me: Live Static by Douglas Noble Self published “It’s a horror story about love. It’s a romance about memory. It’s a dream of forgetting.” That’s how Noble describes the 3 part Live Static – told in issues 28-30 of his Strip For Me series. There’s a man, there’s a woman, they live together in something that [...]
Continue reading...Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover by Jemima Von Schindelberg and Steven Tillotson Banal Pig Comics A sad, somewhat bizarre and somewhat brilliant tale of a lonely, rather pathetic life here. This is the second part of the Ethel Sparrowhawk story, but everything you ever needed to know is either neatly summarised on the inside front and back covers or [...]
Continue reading...Comics of Decadence
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Comics from the Decadence Collective Published by Dave Lander (Lando) and Stathis Tsemberlidis (Covers to Decadence anthology # 6 and #7) Decadence is both the name of the anthology and the name of the artists collective started in 2003 by artists Lando and Stathis Tsemberlidis. They’re a collective that operates very much at the artistic end of [...]
Continue reading...“In my line of work you see a lot of death” – irritable, grumpy and wonderful; Harker’s back
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Harker issue 10 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Here we go again….. by now you know how much I enjoy Harker (see the review of Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon for a reminder), so when I got the latest issue I was almost tempted just to write a quick piece announcing it’s release and [...]
Continue reading...Feels Like Stephen King
Monday, February 1, 2010
Feels Like Stephen King written by Steven Deighan, illustrated by Terry Cooper Dark Monster Publications I’ve never really liked Stephen King, so a graphic novel with that title was always going to be a hard sell for me. But this debut piece of comic work – at 42 pages it’s more graphic short story than graphic novel – [...]
Continue reading...Le Mot Faux – one last chance to get it right, but at what cost?
Friday, January 29, 2010
Le Mot Faux by Matthew Craig Self Published “One more time. One more night. One more chance to set things right.” That’s the idea behind Matthew Craig’s latest comic, something a little different from his usual fare at first glance. But this tale of technology allowing the grieving one last day with the dead has, at it’s heart, the [...]
Continue reading...Science Fiction Classics
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Graphic Classics Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics Published and Edited by Tom Pomplun Eureka Productions This is the first full colour volume of Graphic Classics and, although it looks smarter and brighter than ever, it also seems to have lost some of the impact found in earlier volumes (reviews here, here, here and here). Where before each volume [...]
Continue reading...The Abortion – creepy and creeping horror
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Abortion by Jamie McMorrow and Garry McLaughlin Self Published I’m not the greatest fan of gore horror, not in comics, not in films, not anywhere. So I came to The Abortion expecting to dislike it. But, although it’s nasty and possibly in rather bad taste, I enjoyed it (if that’s the right word). It certainly made me [...]
Continue reading...Walking The Dog – an exercise in making comics?
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Walking The Dog by David Hughes Jonathan Cape David Hughes is too close to fifty, out of shape, drinking way too much and really needs to get out and take some exercise. At least that’s what his doctor tells him, Hughes isn’t so convinced. But his family come up with a perfect Christmas present in the shape of [...]
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