Assassin's Creed: Desmond, Aquilus, Accipter and Assassin's Creed: Hawk, written by Corbeyran, art by Djillali Defali, English-language translation by Mark McKenzie-Ray, published by Titan Books Confession: I have never played Assassin’s Creed, the massively popular video game series, although I did enjoy its spiritual predecessor, Prince of Persia. This means…
A1: The World’s Best Comics Written and drawn by a host of talented creators Edited by Dave Elliott Published by Atomeka/Titan Comics I have fond memories of the original A1 – I still have the books somewhere in my collection – so it was a delightful nostalgia rush to receive…
Written and drawn by Bryan Talbot The Tower of London – a dog prisoner is to be executed until he makes a daring and murderous escape. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector LeBrock has not come out of his lodgings in over a week – he is still angry with himself and wallowing…
Fashion Beast #1–10 Story by Malcolm McLaren and Alan Moore Script by Alan Moore Sequential adaptation by Antony Johnston Art by Facundo Percio Colours by Hernan Cabrera Letters by Jaymes Reed Published by Avatar Press Dark Horse are publishing a comic book adaptation of George Lucas’ original screenplay for The…
King City #1–12 by Brandon Graham To read King City is to enter into one man’s singular vision captured in 424 pages of paper with pencil and ink. Twelve issues of a mostly plotless story (as Graham admits in the outro) in an otherly world of delightful inventiveness and wonderful…
Story by Roberto Orci & Mike Johnson Script by Mike Johnson Pencils by David Messina Inks by Marina Castelvetro Colours by Claudia Scarletgothica Letters by Chris Mowry Edited by Scott Dunbier Published by Titan Books As the title of the book suggests, this is a prequel leading directly into Star…
The Courtyard #1 & 2 and Neonomicon #1–4 Written by Alan Moore Art by Jacen Burrows I’m sure this is heresy but I’ll say it anyway: this comic book, which was written by arguably one of the greatest writers of comics books and whose work I enjoy very much (so…
Written by Peter O’Donnell Art by Enric Badia Romero Published by Titan Books I grew up in London, so would occasionally see the Modesty Blaise strip in the Evening Standard newspapers discarded on the trains in the underground. I was always amazed that the strip survived so long, with only…
Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl #1–5 Written by Mark Millar Pencils by John Romita Jr Inks by Tom Palmer Colours by Dean White Letters by Chris Eliopoulos Edits by Jennifer Lee Published by Titan Books Warning: before buying this comic book, you should be made aware that it is not ‘real-life’…
Dead Space #1–6 Written by Antony Johnston Art by Ben Templesmith Dead Space Salvage Written by Antony Johnston Art by Christopher Shy Published by Titan Books As I mentioned in my review of Dead Space Liberation, there were two other Dead Space trade paperbacks released to coincide with the publication…