This is one of my semi-regular posts about comic book artists whose work I enjoy, as I look at their work history and post some examples of their work. Today’s post is about a favourite artist who will unfortunately no longer produce any more of his great art. It was a…
Another delayed collection of jumbled thoughts on some of the good television programmes I watched in the latter half of 2011 since the previous posts about good television in the first half of 2011 [post 1] [post 2] [post 3]. Doctor Who The second half of the sixth season of…
With the award season finished, it’s seems as good a time as any to very belatedly talk about the other films I saw in the cinema in 2011 (I discussed the first six months in these two posts). An aside: I’m begrudgingly happy that The Artist has done so well…
I think this is the first comic book convention I have attended which gave me an actual, not metaphorical, headache at the end of the day; I’m trying to work out if it was because I enjoyed the con too much or if I’m an inexperienced attendee. Despite coming home…
Executive Producer: Sam WorthingtonCreated by Michael Schwarz and John SchwarzWritten by David LaphamIllustrated by Leonardo MancoColoured by Kinsun Loh, Jerry Choo & Sansan SawLettered by Todd KleinEdited by Renae GeerlingsPublished by Radical Publishing I was fortunate to receive preview pdfs of the first five issues of this six-issue mini-series from…
The news is official: DC will be publishing Before Watchmen, seven prequel mini-series to what is widely regarded as the greatest superhero comic book series of all time (well, so far), the only comic book to make Time’s list of 100 Best Novels. Twenty-five years after the original series was…
Kill Shakespeare #7–12Written and created by Conor McCreery and Anthony Del ColArt by Andy BelangerColours by Ian HerringLettering by Chris Mowry, Neil Uyetake and Shawn LeeEdited by Tom WaltzPublished by IDW Publishing When I reviewed the collection of the first six issues of this series, I said that I enjoyed…
Gosh!, my favourite comic book shop in the world, let alone London, was based opposite the British Museum for 25 years – I thought they would always be there. However, nothing lasts for ever and Gosh! moved premises to a new location at Berwick Street in Soho. And the new…
Even though I haven't been blogging regularly, I had to capture some of my thoughts about The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, if just for the fact that we in the UK got to see the film long before arriving on North American screens, which makes for…
Darkie’s Mob: The Secret War Of Joe Darkie by John Wagner and Mike WesternJohnny Red: Falcon’s First Flight by Tom Tully and Joe ColquhounPublished by Titan Books These two handsome hardbacks are part of a collection of reprints by Titan Books of some of the classic black and white stories…