Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1–3 by Frank Miller Frank Miller is undoubtedly one of the few big creators in the world of comic books. Whether or not he has created anything recently of note that hasn’t descended into unironic self-parody is another question. Although The Dark Knight Returns…
Agents of Atlas #1–6 by Jeff Parker and Leonard Kirk The spy, the spaceman, the goddess, the robot, the gorilla. Aren’t comics cool? FBI agent Jimmy Woo, Bob ‘Marvel Boy’ Grayson, the goddess Venus, M-11 the human robot, Ken Hale the Gorilla Man, brought together in 1958 to save President…
Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes Written by Christopher Knowles and illustrations by Joseph Michael Linsner This is a book that tries to unite all comic book superheroes into a common theme; in this case, that they are all derived from occult origins. This is…
When talking about comic book shops in London, particularly the central London shops that have flown the flag for the medium for so long, Forbidden Planet dominates the story. Forbidden Planet was the first ‘proper’ comic shop I went into. I had previously bought comic books from newsagents (back when…
By Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk I’m not trying to turn this into a blog solely about Captain Britain, after the previous two posts, but I had to talk about the first issue of the new series starring Marvel’s idea of the equivalent of Captain America. First off – is…
It's hard to be a fan of superhero comic books sometimes. For example, the Associated Press release – about the appearance of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Captain Britain and MI:13 #1 (which you can read at Newsarama) – was picked up (and reported in an identical fashion) by the British…
I've been re-reading Alan Davis' Excalibur again, after the ClanDestine mini-series crossed over with it. In doing so, I saw the greatest character that doesn't appear in a regular series of his own, as shown in the image at the top of this post. Captain Britain as Iron Fist. I…
Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s free webcomic, FreakAngels, is six pages of full-colour sequential art on a weekly basis that has been going on for the last few months. Completely free. That’s impressive. It will be collected into hard-copy form eventually, but it will still remain free online. God bless…
Much was made of the apology from Heroes creator Tim Kring for the troubles with the early episodes of season two – although I tried to avoid the discussions because I didn’t want the show spoiled – so I thought I’d talk about my reactions to the first five episodes…
Collecting issues 1–4 by Jeff Parker and Mike Wieringo I bought this collection because it was the last work by the sorely missed Mike ‘Ringo’ Wieringo, an artist whose work I really enjoyed. He was taken from us too soon, and it’s a shame to think of all the work…