Is it really a year since the first Ultimate annuals? Are they special anymore, or just money-grabbing opportunities (or is that stating the obvious when it comes to Marvel)? I must rest my weary cynicism detector. Reading the Marvel solicits is slightly tiring; if it isn’t a tie-in to the…
No intro. Let's do it. Much as I like a bit of Matt Wagner, I won’t be getting his Batman Year 1.5 stories. However, Batman and the Mad Monk is wonderfully silly title, and he draws a cool Bats. What a great byline: 'What do you get when you add…
This might be a little nerdy; it’s hard to tell when one is so close to it. But I like cataloguing my comic book collection. I like having the list, including author, artist(s), company, imprint. It might be a bit sad, but I don’t care. It means that I can…
Usually, I don’t have comics to review because I can’t get to my shop to buy them. This week, I didn’t have anything to buy. At all. This is depressing because I love comics, but it’s positive because it means I don’t have to spend money. I didn’t buy Civil…
My shopping list for the week: ................................... NOTHING! Damn. And it’s not even a skip week. So, what is there this week that I COULD buy? I could get the third Gotham Central trade, if I didn’t already have all the issues of a series that has been cancelled, and…
Lots of film-related comic book news at Empire. I like Favreau, but I’m not sure he has the visual styling to bring Iron Man successfully to life. And, please, please, not Vince Vaughan for Tony Stark. I like Vaughan, but he is not Iron Man. I hadn’t heard about Edgar…
Apropos of nothing in particular, I was thinking about websites devoted to comic book news. Isn’t the internet great? What did fans do before it was invented? It got me thinking about the variety and the ones I go to first and read. CBR – Comic Book Resources – is…
Greg has a very interesting post at Comics should Be Good about quasi-masterpieces, runs of comics by creators that are defining and the peak of their work. It’s a large subject to discuss, and requires someone with a greater range of comic book history than Greg has, something to which…
The comics are still impossible to access due to the move, so blogging detours to another topic where the research is provided online – this week’s list of my pulse-pounding purchase: Tag & Bink: Episode 1 Revenge of the Menace There can never be enough Star Wars comedy, in my…
I’m so exhausted after moving home this weekend, I can barely type. With this in mind, I shall do a little gentle weblogging by deploying some well-chosen links. Newsarama has a nice intro to The Eternals [EDIT: dead link] in preparation for the new mini-series from Neil Gaiman and John Romita…