Grant Morrison participated in a Q&A in Foyles on Charing Cross Road on Tuesday evening to promote his new book, Supergods. Because we were not allowed to photograph or record the Q&A, these are my long and rambling recollections of the hour. I was lucky to get tickets for this…
Batman #667–669, 672–675 by Grant Morrison, JH Williams III, Tony S Daniel In the parlance of football commentary, this book is a game of two halves – one of quality and wit and imagination, the other is overblown and silly and lacking in art. While all comes from the imagination…
[I'm so inconsistent: I was doing well, with regular posting and reviewing, then I miss a day and I go AWOL. Then Christmas comes along and everything goes to pot. I was meaning to post over Christmas, but that was a little ambitious. So, let's try to get things back…
Batman #655–658, #663–666 by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert I’ve been reading quite a few Batman books recently (as subsequent posts will attest), including getting round to reading Batman: The Long Halloween (which was a mistake, but that’s not important). So, when the hardback of a new Batman story written…
I quit the X-Men shortly after Chris Claremont left in 1991 (when he discovered that all the hard work he had put into The Uncanny X-Men didn’t mean a thing to the editors who preferred hot artists doing their versions) having being a devout X-fan since I'd discovered them. I…