Kurt Wagner was born in Bavaria with indigo fur covering his body, a prehensile tail, three fingers on each hand (including opposable thumbs), fang-like canines, and yellow eyes with no distinguishable pupils. Naturally, a career in the circus beckoned. He was invited to join the X-Men by Professor Charles Xavier,…
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…
Apart from getting rid of old comics (Trimming the Collection), reading a variety of stuff I wouldn’t buy (From A Library), and being silly (Q&A), I do actually buy comics as they come out. Shocking, I know. Since starting a new job that is in the opposite direction from my…
Blackagar Boltagon is King of the Inhuhmans Royal Family, as well as being a member of The Illuminati. Subjected to mutagenic Terrigen Mist while still an embryo, he was born with an array of powers, such as speed, flight, strength and endurance, but it is the capacity of his vocal…
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…
Green Wing was a breath of fresh air on Channel 4 last year. Inventive, surreal, visually distinctive, populated with great comedy actors, backed by good writers, and experimenting by doing comedy in an hour-long show, rather than taking the easy route of 30 minutes of jokes. Most importantly, it was…
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…