16 December 2018
I’ve been reading comic books for a long while, and I have a lot of comic books in my collections, but I don’t buy anywhere near as many individual comic books as I did. This is for two main reasons: 1. The price of individual issues nowadays is prohibitively expensive (insert rant of a crotchety old man going on about…
4 November 2018
The Harry Potter category on this blog indicates the love I have for JK Rowling’s creation (we have the books, the DVDS, the Blu-rays – because I only had the US DVD for the first film and we wanted to have The Philosopher’s Stone, not The Sorcerer’s Stone – we’ve visited the Studio Tour twice, we’ve seen The Cursed Child). We…
22 September 2018
Writer: Ryan O’Sullivan Illustrator: Andrea Mutti Colourist: Vladmimir Popov Letters: Andworld Design Publishers: Vault Comics Ryan O’Sullivan, a writer, is writing a comic book about a writer who is not a good writer but is the author of the comic book while being an unreliable narrator and an unpleasant human being, in a story about the idea of writing (and…
16 September 2018
Written by Ian Haydn Smith If I were to analyse my enjoyment of film posters, I guess it’s the interaction of my love of films and the love of comic books, which distil so much into a stationary image that encapsulates so much more. When I regularly bought film magazines, film posters were a very common freebie and so I…
9 September 2018
I saw Justice League in the cinema when it first came out. It left such a lack of impression on me, even as I left the cinema, that I didn’t even tweet my reactions, because I didn’t have any. I recently rented it so that my partner could see it and so I could see if it would be different…
28 August 2018
I’m not sure if it’s a law or anything but it’s a rule of thumb: if you read comics and you’re British, then you read 2000 AD at some point in your comic-book reading life. For some, it’s a lifelong connection; for others, it’s a phase but it’s a phase that sticks with you, and the characters that you read during…
17 August 2018
In a way, I feel a bit sorry for Ant-Man and the Wasp: it’s a film of less substance in the MCU, being a fun caper movie in the same vein as Ant-Man; it’s coming after the huge events of Avengers: Infinity War; and it’s arriving after a tremendous run of MCU films in the past eight months (Thor: Ragnarok,…
9 August 2018
My latest comic book artist post – where I talk about a comic book artist whose work I like and post some of their art – is about Carlos Pacheco, the superstar Spanish artist who first arrived on the scene in 1994 and was an instant smash and who has been at the top of the comic book artist leagues…
22 July 2018
By Nick Setchfield I don’t know Mr Setchfield but I am rather jealous of him: he is features editor of SFX magazine, he reviews film and he’s just written a cracking debut novel that mixes espionage with the occult. Talk about living the good life … The book begins with the motto of the British Secret Intelligence Service: Semper Occultus,…
13 July 2018
I have recently posted my thoughts on Avengers: Infinity War and about my enjoyment of Kurt Busiek’s writing, and it got me thinking about something I find incongruous about the MCU from the perspective of a long-term comic book fan: I have always found The Avengers a really boring book. I bought Busiek’s run on The Avengers, after Heroes Reborn,…