Thunderbolts #110–115 by Warren Ellis and Mike Deodata Jr Warren Ellis' work-for-hire books for Marvel falls into the category 'wait for the trade'; when he is brought onto an ailing title for the purposes of boosting sales in the wake of a crossover, this is a confirmed decision. Thunderbolts was…
Wolverine #56–61 by Jason Aaron (#56), Marc Guggenheim (57–61) and Howard Chaykin I reserve books from my library using their online search facility – I searched for Jason Aaron after discovering how brilliant Scalped was, and this collection was listed under his name. It was only when I got it…
Along with They Walk Among Us and Avalon Comics, 30th Century Comics is a comic book shop in London that is south of the river, in Putney (a few minutes' walk from the train station, a bit more from the underground stations). Seeing as only 10% of all London Underground…
You can call it cameos. You can call it Easter Eggs. You can call it in-jokes. Whatever your name of preference, it is one thing that comic book art can do better and easier than just about any form of entertainment I can think of. The artist can tell the…
Heroes is back. Try to contain your excitement. Despite the anticlimax that was the end of the first season, and the dull hiccup that was the writers' strike-interrupted season two, I'm back watching Heroes again, with the first two episodes on BBC2 and BBC last night. It's nice to be…
New Excalibur #16–24 by Chris Claremont and various artists I don't know why I do it sometimes. I used to like Chris Claremont's writing growing up; I'd been re-reading old Excaliburs because of the ClanDestine mini-series; and Paul Cornell was bringing back Captain Britain to his own title. Put all…
Tom Spurgeon wrote a post on Sunday called The 50 Things That Every Comics Collection Truly Needs. In it, he lists and explains his choices. Now, I didn't originally read the post – instead, I read other people's reactions to it, in a meme kinda way. But, when I did,…
(Apologies for the unprofessional photo – you can see my reflection in the shop door. Scratch off 'photojournalist' for the list of potential careers.) In the previous posts in this series, I've talked about comic book shops mostly situated in central London; these are shops that are some distance from…
I've had a full week – my post about the Harrod's Comic Book Exhibit helped to tweak the accompanying copy, if Rich's comment is true; a question about the use of double hyphens in comic book lettering to Todd Klein became the source of a post on his excellent blog…
When I mentioned I had bought a book by Andrew Collins in my post about the oddity that was my presence on the Wikipedia page for The Collings and Herrin Podcast, this was the book I to which I was referring. I would like to point out that I didn't…