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Eat Me!
Eat Me! A Food Anthology Jack Davies, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss & Harry Griffin-Hayes, Sammy Borras, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sarah Fogg Inspired Comics Hmm. The urge to pepper this one with hideous puns and food references is almost too much. You’ll forgive me “pepper”. I promise that will be the last of them. Right then. Six comic strips all on the [...]
Continue reading...Psircus
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Psircus Issue 1 – The Origins of Kathy and Icarus Written by Daniel Bell, art by Katja Lindblom, Iain Buchanan, Daniel Bell Yes, PT Barnum presents…. yes, the same PT Barnum who runs the circus. Except in here, it’s the Psircus he’s running, the Psircus being a way for writer (and sometime artist) Daniel Bell [...]
Continue reading...Crisp Biscuit Comics #2
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Crisp Biscuit Comics #2 By Robert Wells Issue 2 of Rob Wells’ Crisp Biscuit Comics – and apart from the upgraded paper stock and the crisper printing, it’s essentially more of the same from issue 1 – reviewed back in 2011. But don’t misunderstand me – more of the same is not necessarily a bad [...]
Continue reading...2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1782
Saturday, May 12, 2012
In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” Another week, another 2000AD, another week spent trying to avoid simply shouting at [...]
Continue reading...UPCOMING…. Hardiman, Ellerby, Tillotson…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
A few things to add to that long, long list of things to buy…. Marc Ellerby has a digital omnibus of Chloe Noonan coming out very soon. Now, where’s the PRINT version? News was from Ellerby’s FB, but no doubt it will be available on the Great Beast website sometime this week. Howard Hardiman’s Lengths [...]
Continue reading...The Lion And The Unicorn – pretty, yet ultimately empty….
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Lion And The Unicorn – Volume Zero, Issue 1 Created by Ashram J Pure, featuring Jonny Wong, Javvy M Royle, Roland Hammed, Zack Slatter Okay, where to start? Good or bad? Let’s go with the good and get to the bad later. But if you’re after a quick summary The Lion & The Unicorn [...]
Continue reading...Verity returns….
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
VerityFair Issue 4 By Terry Wiley IDCM I’ve waffled on plenty in the past about Terry Wiley, about his collaborations with McKinnon and Kermode, about how Sleaze Castle is something of a lost epic. (Luckily, lost no longer – see details at the end of this piece.) Well, this is VerityFair, and VerityFair is Terry [...]
Continue reading...Too Much Sex & Violence #3
Monday, May 7, 2012
Too Much Sex & Violence Issue 3 Written by Rol Hirst, art by Adrian Bamforth, Kelvin Green, Stephen Prestwood, Nigel Lowry, Andrew Cheverton, Martin Eden, Chris Askham, Rob Wells, Davey Metcalfe-Carr Third issue of the series that Rol Hirst describes as: “Welcome to the northern seaside town of Fathomsby; home to retired super-heroes, monster DJs, mutant prostitutes, [...]
Continue reading...Windrush Issue 1
Friday, May 4, 2012
Windrush Issue 1 By T’Sao Wei Okay, Windrush is a quality little comic, interesting genre twist, the quirky, edgy end of the superhero spectrum, rough, raw, wearing its flaws right out front. But beside those obvious flaws sits something intriguing, something good. It’s strangely formatted; hand bound A4, cotton binding up the edge, no spine. [...]
Continue reading...The return of The Black Dossier…
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Black Dossier By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout Comics Before Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill took The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to Top Shelf & Knockabout for LoEG: Century, DC Comics were responsible for putting out the third volume – LoEG: The Black Dossier. To put it [...]
Continue reading...The Jikan Chronicles Book Two
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Jikan Chronicles Book Two Written by Dirk Van Dom, Chris Cronin, Matthew McLaughlin, Mark Howard Art by El Chivo, Dave Candlish, Dustin Parr, Chris Askham, cover by Dave Candlish. Jikan created by Dave Candlish First things first; this is a continuation of the story from Jikan Chronicles Book 1, as reviewed back in January [...]
Continue reading...Taking Flight
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Taking Flight Issue 1 By Stephen Sutherland and Garry McLaughlin Laser Age Comics So many comic writers and artists have that one interesting superhero story they’ve always fancied telling, and it always seems to have that twist in it. So here’s a fairly standard superhero tale with a twist. This isn’t to say there’s not [...]
Continue reading...Both Sides – good and bad – in Matthew Craig’s latest
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Both Sides By Matthew Craig, Jack Davies and Lee Grice Produced by Matthew Craig via dictation software and a headset as he waits for his poor knackered drawing hand to recover, Both Sides is a double header, exploring the nature of heroes and villains, first through misguided youth, then through broken-hearted Iron Age blacksmith. You [...]
Continue reading...Lovecraft… stylish, polished, yet sadly lacking the chills
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume II Edited by Dan Lockwood Jamie Delano, Steve Pugh, Chris lackey, Adrian Salmon, David Camus, Nicolas Fructus, Dwight L. MacPherson, Paul Peart-Smith, Chad Fifer, Bryan Baugh, Pat Mills, Attila Futaki, Benjamin Dickson, Mick McMahon, Simon Spurrier, Matt Timson, Dan Lockwood, Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Cover by Francisco Francavilla. SelfMadeHero It doesn’t really [...]
Continue reading...Dan Haycock: working through Brunetti with some nice results
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Thanks to John Welding for the heads up on this one: “Off to me big computer for a better neb at this… “@_unbatondecolle: New comic!! ‘Licking Piss off a Peashooter‘” It’s a new post from Dan Haycock. He’s been working his way through the Ivan Brunetti Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice book, and this time the [...]
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