Written by Ian Edginton Art by Christopher Shy Published by Titan Books Dead Space is a popular video game, a third-player shooter where the main character fights ‘Necromorphs’ (human corpses reanimated by an alien virus) aboard a spaceship. The first one was released in 2008 (of note, Warren Ellis was…
Stitched #1–7 Original story by Garth Ennis Script and art by Mike Wolfer Colour by Digikore Studios Published by Avatar Press Stitched is a 17-minute short film from 2011, written and directed by Garth Ennis (view the trailer here). I have to admit I was surprised when I heard that…
Ferals #1–6 Written by David Lapham Art by Gabriel Andrade Colour by Digikore Studios Published by Avatar Press The small town of Cypress, Lake County, Minnesota. A man is found torn to shreds on the mountain, and his friend is the only person who cares; his friend is also the police in…
By David Mazzucchelli I recently joined City Library in London and it has been a treasure trove of new books that I wouldn’t normally get my hands on, and this has been one of them. This huge hardcover (344 pages – it was a heavy book to bring back home…
Everybody Loves Tank Girl #1–3 Written by Alan Martin Drawn by Jim Mahfood Published by Titan Books Since Tank Girl first appeared in Deadline back in 1988, the visual element of the character and the strips was the main appeal. I have some old Tank Girl comics but I don’t…
Written by Tom Tully Drawn by Joe Colquhoun Published by Titan Books This is the third handsome hardback collection of strips of Johnny Red from Battle in 1978 (I reviewed the first volume previously), compiling the storyline where Johnny ‘Red’ Redburn, a British pilot who ended up in Russia fighting…
Supercrooks #1–4 by Mark Millar and Leinil Yu It may sound like a simple pitch – Ocean’s Eleven with supervillains – but it’s a good one (and superpowers make everything better) and the execution is equally good, which means that Supercrooks is a great example of a comic book that…
Wolverine #66–72 and Wolverine: Old Man Logan Giant-Size by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven I haven’t purchased a Mark Millar comic book in ages – his overbearing hucksterism, his ‘film pitch as comic book’ approach, and his seeming dislike for people who read comic books make for an unpleasant taste…
Written by Roger Gibson and drawn by Vince Danks Published by Titan Books This hardback collects the six issues of the independent comic, which is (as the author admits) a police procedural television show you might see on ITV on a weekday evening at 8pm, but in comic-book form. It’s…
Mysterius The Unfathomable #1–6 by Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler This is an oddly charming creator-owned series published by Wildstorm in 2008 about a selfish mystic/magician/magical expert called Mysterius. We meet him when he finds his new ‘Delfi’ – Delfi is the name he gives all his assistants – at…