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Advance Review: Jupiter’s Legacy #1 – A Brave New World
An intriguing beginning, containing a single panel that is worth the cover price alone. Mark Millar is, of course, the master of hype. From the headline-grabbing The Authority to the more recent...
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The Trouble With Wonder Woman is Complete Pants
When it comes to Wonder Woman, the headlines suggest that we only seem to care about three things: what she’s wearing, what her latest TV attempt is wearing, and who she is banging. Basically, it’s all...
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FYI, RIPD is not MIB. IMO.
The official trailer for upcoming movie R.I.P.D. hit the internet last week, and sparked a stampede of people rushing to label the supernatural buddy cop romp as stepping a little too neatly into the...
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The End of I, Vampire and the Cancellation of Creativity
A spoiler-free farewell to my beloved favourite, and a note of regret from an ex-fan of the New 52. I almost didn’t pick issue one off the shelf. In a year saturated with vampires, the cover suggested...
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Review: Digital Comics and the iPad Mini 2
If there’s one thing that’s changed in the word of comics, for both readers and critics, it’s the huge market shift towards digital over the last decade. As comics have become more and more mainstream,...
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Marvel and DC: Recognising Progress Doesn’t Ignore The Fake Sound Of It
The world of superheroes is a funny old place, home to some of the craziest and most imaginative storytelling of the last century, but eternally trapped in a constantly regressive rut. Long time fans...
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Top of the Shops: January 2015
January is traditionally a quiet month in the book industry, the relentless torrent of autumn releases and Christmas gift books swept aside by diets and wishful thinking texts of the new year, but...
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Review: Henni by Miss Lasko-Gross
In a year already tragically marked by the ever familiar battle between art and religion, freedom of speech and religious (in)tolerance, this fable about faith, identity, and art within an oppressive...
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The Silent and the Sequential: Wordless Comics
As part of an upcoming review of Love: The Tiger, my mind turned to one of my favourite topics - the silent or wordless comic. Silent comics are, for whatever reasons, not often covered despite their...
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Accio Harry Potter Comics!
Nearly 8 years since the last in the series was published, Pottermania is still going strong. We've had books, films, a website and theme parks - is it time now, finally, for a comic adaptation?...
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