1 September 2011
The first title in the ‘new’ DC universe of titles (I refuse to call it DCnU, which I think is very silly indeed but seems to have caught on) arrived yesterday in stores and online, both legally and unfortunately illegally, so it seemed about time to talk about the titles that interested me sufficiently to pick them up. An aside:…
27 June 2011
The National Collectors Marketplace is a regular mart for comic books, trading cards, books and merchandise related to science fiction, film and TV. According to the website, it is the largest of its sort, hosting 130 tables in the Royal National Hotel near Russell Square in central London. When I arrived on a wet Sunday at the beginning of the month,…
22 June 2011
It seems the right time to talk about this book after my long rambling review of X-Men: First Class. My love of the X-Men might have had some impact in my enjoyment of the film, but that doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the books I read as a teenager nor my affection for the creators of that work. This is…
31 May 2011
I haven’t been to a convention since I attended the London Film and Comic Con in 2008, so it was about time I exposed myself to another celebration of geek culture. Mark Millar’s Kapow! might have been oriented more towards mainstream comic book (matching my tastes), but tickets for that sold out because it was so small (and I’ve started…
9 May 2011
Although Free Comic Book Day has been going since 2002, this was my first time actually venturing into comic book shops on the day itself. It hasn’t been a big deal here in the UK (I believe that the shipping charges, even for free comics, make it an expensive promotion for shops in the UK), and it was only this…
27 March 2011
Not having a lot of money at the moment to buy new monthly series, I have to be blown away by the prospect of a new book to make me add it to my list. The vast majority of books from the Big Two have to go well out of their way to persuade me to try something (especially because…
22 March 2011
I know that my choice of blog reading skews the perspective, but it seems that a lot of sites talk about comic book casting as if it’s big news. When Elizabeth Hurley was cast as the villain in the new Wonder Woman television pilot, it was all over the place (the fact that I think that this a bad thing,…
13 March 2011
Disclaimer: I don’t buy anywhere near enough comic books to be able to post a ‘Best Comics of 2010’ list. I don’t buy anywhere near enough comic books in floppy format on a weekly basis, and I tend to buy a lot more trade paperbacks. This means I haven’t read many of the books that end up on these sorts…
28 September 2010
Dodgem Logic is, according to Alan Moore, ‘the 21st century’s first underground magazine’. There have been five issues so far, so it seemed like an opportunity to compile my thoughts on it. My reason for reading is obviously Alan Moore – he may have left comics but he’s still writing. He writes an editorial each issue, ‘Great Hipsters In History’…
26 September 2010
With the sad news that Wildstorm will no longer be its own imprint within the DC, there have been many people lamenting the loss (including various creators at The Beat, Newsarama, as well as other people discussing the implications or just their favourite titles). I don’t have the eloquence or ‘big picture’ insight that some of those do, but I…