And now, the Mighty Marvel Mammoth Menu! (They do a lot of books, don't they?) Ultimate X-Men #72 – is The Magician the most boring-looking hero you have ever seen? It looks like one of designs that Mike Weiringo puts up on his blog that he did as a child;…
It's the turn of Image comics, details seen here. Image has come on a long way, but the promotional blurb can cause strange reactions. Take the intro for the Bedlam GN: 'It's Blade meets The DaVinci Code in this bold new graphic novella!' I really dislike the 'Hollywood pitch' style…
I'm in the process of moving, so my comics are inaccessible at the moment. Which means that the list of future comics that hit the web are the perfect fodder for blogging; I am required to post my opinions as a comic blogger, and all the research material is right…
I got around to seeing Sky High on DVD on the weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d heard nice things about it, but you can never tell until you see it for yourself. It is not a groundbreaking film in anyway – it is a coming-of-age story, formulated exactly to…
This letter is my most recent; my other letters were all around the same time, about 8 to 9 years ago (damn, I feel old …). That was my concentrated letter-writing time, where I was writing pretty regularly to comic books. I don't think I was a hack – I…
(Apologies for the two images – the letter was printed over two pages, and my limited Photoshop skills couldn’t seamlessly blend them together again, even with help from all the King’s horses AND all the King’s men, useless bastards.) Having a letter printed in a comic book is great, in…
Another letter in a comic book, another comic book by Priest. XERØ was a wonderful series that was criminally cut short due to poor sales and woeful treatment by the power people at DC – for a personal reflection on the many travesties poured on this book, read this piece…
Quantum & Woody was THE most enjoyable thing to come out of Acclaim. Priest wrote some hilarious stuff, MD Bright drew up a storm, and much fun was had by them and the readers, although unfortunately not that many. I enjoyed it so much, I bought the trades as well…
Here is a scan of my letter in the second issue of the second series of Stormwatch, about the end of first series of Stormwatch: If you have read some of this blog, you'll know that I'm a big fan of Warren Ellis, so I was quite chuffed to get…
After all the light negativity of my Trimming the Collection posts, I thought I would let some of my old positivity take centre stage for a bit. Here is a scan of my printed letter in The Challengers of the Unknown #9 of the late '90s: As a fan of…