Edited by George Mann Published by Titan Books BBC’s Sherlock, CBS’s Elementary, the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films – the enduring appeal of one of the most famous fictional characters has never been more evident. You simply cannot have too many Sherlock Holmes stories. This anthology continues this tradition in…
The Absence #1–6 by Martin Stiff Published by Titan Comics The Absence was originally a black & white self-published series, between 2009 and 2013, but Titan Comics have collected the complete story into a 272-page hardcover. This is a good thing because this is a very good comic book that deserves…
It Came! #1–4 Created, written and illustrated by Dan Boultwood, Esq. Published by Titan Comics Presented as a lost feature from Pinetree Studios (there is also a trailer for another feature, The Lost Valley Of The Lost [‘Based entirely on scientifically dubious fabricated facts’], and tongue-in-cheek adverts for such products…
Chronos Commandos #1–5 Created, written and illustrated by Stuart Jennett Lettered by Andrew James, Donna Jennett, Gabriela Houston Edited by Andrew James Published by Titan Comics Jennett worked on a few issues of Marvel UK’s Warheads and 2000AD in the early 1990s, before the comic book crash closed down Marvel…
A Memoir By Lady Trent written by Marie Brennan Published by Titan Books Marie Brennan, the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, is an American fantasy author who graduated from Harvard University and did graduate studies in folklore and anthropology. This means she is smart and has an affinity with science and…
I started the ‘Writer Top Five’, with the first one on Greg Rucka back in 2012, with the idea of it being a regular series. As usual with me, it never happened quite the way I envisaged, but that doesn’t mean I can’t eventually persuade myself to revisit an idea…
By Tanya Huff Published by Titan Books I’ve never read anything by Canadian fantasy author Tanya Huff before but, based on The Enchantment Emporium, I need to rectify that state of affairs. She is prolific, having written several contemporary fantasy series (including the Blood Books series, about a human detective…
Chain Reaction is an interview show for Radio 4 where the interviewer chooses their subject, who then gets to choose their subject for the next show. It started off as a comedy thing, with comedians interviewing other comedians, but Stewart Lee changed that by asking to interview Alan Moore. This…
Suicide Risk #1–4 Created and written by Mike Carey Drawn by Elena Casagrande Colours by Andrew Elder Letters by Ed Dukeshire Published by Boom! Although Mike Carey has written several longboxes of superhero comics for Marvel, including long runs on X-Men and X-Men: Legacy, I don’t think of him as…
Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #1–6 Story and art by David Petersen Published by Titan Books I am aware that a lot of people who are into modern comic books don’t really get anthropomorphic comics books, specifically where the entire cast and setting is anthropomorphic, and not just animal characters…