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DC – The New 52… Week 2 starts with Bats
Another week begins… another 13 titles from the new, all back to number 1 DC Universe. So far week 1 rather impressed. A fair number of the comics involved were good enough to make me be on the lookout for second issues. More than that, I found myself enjoying this new, almost continuity free DC [...]
Continue reading...Part epic creation story, part Wrestlemania event …. Jesse Moynihan’s Forming
Friday, September 16, 2011
Forming By Jesse Moynihan Nobrow Press Forming’s a huge book, in size and theme. Size first – an oversize, bigger than A4, 122-page hardcover from Nobrow, with all the gorgeous design touches and flat-matt colours that we’ve come to expect. Always lovely to look at. This is the first of three projected volumes and quite [...]
Continue reading...Hitsville UK – a hit, oh such a hit
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Hitsville UK issue 1 Written by Dan Cox and John Riordan, art by John Riordan “No expense accounts, or lunch discounts, or hypeing up the charts, The band went in, ‘n knocked ‘em dead, in 2 minutes 59″ “No slimy deals, with smarmy eels – in Hitsville U.K. Lets shake’n say, we’ll operate – in [...]
Continue reading...DC – The New 52: The final word on week 1 …. Detective Comics and Batgirl from Joe
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Detective Comics #1 Tony S Daniel and Ryan Winn It’s pretty rare these days for me to pick up a weekly or monthly comic – I’ve collected them for years, still have boxes of them, still have a lot of love for them, but these days more often than not I tend to pick up [...]
Continue reading...DC – The New 52 – Week 1 review round-up…
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Okay…. week 1 of the new DC is over, we’re already hard at work reading through week 2. With all the reviewing going on around the new DC, we figured some form of handy review checklist / scorecard might be an idea. Or maybe just a series of quotes and links. All in all I [...]
Continue reading...DC52: Stormwatch, Detective Comics, Men of War & Action Comics
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Continuing our ongoing coverage of the huge DC 52 re-launch of their major titles, James Bacon offers us up more of his thoughts on a brace of new releases: Stormwatch, written by Paul Cornell, art by Miguel Sepulveda This comic could read Authority meets Stormwatch meets DC, and that’s a pretty damn fine heritage going [...]
Continue reading...Wrapping up the reviews of the DC 52 week 1…. Animal Man, Men Of War, Batwing, Hawk & Dove… one of these comics isn’t very good…
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Oh my word, how time catches up with us. Today is the first day of the new DC Comics 52 second week. Which means it’s desperately quick catch up time here. So far we’ve covered a few, liked a few, thought a few were okay, and didn’t like a couple. Here’s the very last batch [...]
Continue reading...More DC New 52 reviews…. Batgirl, Detective and Static Shock
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Okay, time for more DC New 52 reviews. I promised myself (in one of those stupid promises you make to yourself late at night) that I was definitely going to review at least the first full week of these comics. To be honest, I thought it would be more of a chore than it has been. I’m [...]
Continue reading...DC The New 52 – young Superman, Swamp Thing and a JLI
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Okay, here we go, the big push to get the DC 52 Week 1 done and dusted. Straight into it then…. Action Comics #1 By Grant Morrison and Rags Morales Right, I really, really need to get a) a move on and b) some sleep, so for Action Comics #1 just go and read James’ [...]
Continue reading...Lots of paper, lots of cardboard… the My Cardboard Life Book
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
My Cardboard Life Book By Phillipa Rice If you’ve been following Philippa Rice’s My Cardboard Life over the last few years as we have you’ll already be aware of just how much pure, unadulterated fun it is. If you haven’t then this 118 page collection of comics from the first two years of My Cardboard [...]
Continue reading...Revisiting Valerian…..
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Valerian Volume 2: The Empire Of A Thousand Planets By Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook Now, I was extremely nonplussed by the first Valerian book from Cinebook, much to the good natured horror of many commenters and twitterers, who assured me it was a thing of genius, the thing that got them into comics, [...]
Continue reading...DC The New 52 – a few mini reviews from week 1 …. O.M.A.C., Stormwatch and Green Arrow….
Monday, September 12, 2011
My turn, as a lapsed superhero fan and convoluted continuity hater, to have a go at the new DC Universe titles… As I wrote a week back, after my hmmm reaction to Justice League #1, the whole idea of completely reworking the DC Universe, hopefully making it work for new readers and lapsed readers like [...]
Continue reading...Secret Avengers – Ellis and McKelvie. Two very good reasons.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Secret Avengers #16 By Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie Marvel Comics Why? Because I’m feeling slightly guilty over the amount of DC coverage we’ve been putting up recently. Because it’s Warren Ellis writing and Jamie McKelvie drawing. Because it’s got the Beast and Black Widow in. Because I’ve always been a Marvel boy at heart [...]
Continue reading...Paragon Issue 8
Monday, September 12, 2011
Paragon Issue 8 Written by Mark Howard, Dirk Van Dom, The Emporer, Mark McLaughlin Art by Dave Candlish, Stephen Prestwood, James Corcoran Published by Dave Candlish Another issue of Paragon, under a really nice Jikan cover by Chris Askham. Five strips, four stories, and pretty much the same problem I had with Paragon last time. I [...]
Continue reading...Action Comics and Swamp Thing rebooted: Andrea’s take
Friday, September 9, 2011
Andrea Pirie of the Leeds FPI store is diving head first into the brightly coloured superhero pool of DC’s huge New 52 reboot, today sharing her thoughts on the first issues of the re-imagined Action Comics and Swamp Thing (spoiler warning!): There were 13 new issue 1’s from DC this week and as I quite [...]
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