Friday the 13th was unlucky for me but lucky for Rich Johnston in that I couldn't find a copy of Watchmensch in Gosh! or Forbidden Planet (I didn't get down to Orbital). I hadn't preordered it, so it's my fault, but I was feeling in a Watchmen vibe and Johnston…
By Paul Gravett With Watchmen hype flowing over the world and DC trying to capture the zeitgeist and get people to try comic books with their 'After Watchmen, What Next?' promotion (which isn't going to work but points for effort), the answer to the question of what sorts of comic…
My impulses got the better of me in the shop – I decided to buy a comic book that I hadn't planned on buying. It's a combination of things: the recent weeks of only having one book in my weekly haul, the reaction against Marvel increasing the price of their…
Batman #667–669, 672–675 by Grant Morrison, JH Williams III, Tony S Daniel In the parlance of football commentary, this book is a game of two halves – one of quality and wit and imagination, the other is overblown and silly and lacking in art. While all comes from the imagination…
Even though X-Factor #40 came out last week, I didn't make the trip to the comic shop just to buy one book – I'm lazy like that. Fortunately, there was a book for me this week, so I had sufficient reason to drag my sorry backside out to the shop…
Another week, another selection of comics, another delayed review – that Friday just seems to escape from me ... In addition to the books I've been getting in the monthly format, I decided on a whim to buy Neil Gaiman's Batman story; I'm still not sure why, but I've always…
I only seem to have a couple of new comics on a weekly basis at the moment – I'm not deliberately cutting down on my purchasing of the monthly floppy pamphlet (with the exception of the Bendis-written Avengers books, which were dropped after the sour taste of the end of…
Collecting Countdown To Infinite Crisis, The OMAC Project #1–6, Wonder Woman #219 by Greg Rucka, Jesus Saiz and Cliff Richards Rucka is a greater writer of espionage/political thrillers – you will know this if you've read Queen & Country – so I wanted to read this series, despite it being…
Another week, another book falls victim to my harsh culling – I decided to not continue with New Avengers. The advent of Dark Reign has left a sour taste in the mouth – I tried issue #48 but wasn't impressed – and the $3.99 price for a regular comic book…
Jack Of Fables #6–11 by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Steve Leialoha I told you I had been reading a lot of books from the library over the Christmas holiday ... After reading the first trade, I wasn't that interested in reading any more of the story –…