Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl #1–5 Written by Mark Millar Pencils by John Romita Jr Inks by Tom Palmer Colours by Dean White Letters by Chris Eliopoulos Edits by Jennifer Lee Published by Titan Books Warning: before buying this comic book, you should be made aware that it is not ‘real-life’…
Dead Space #1–6 Written by Antony Johnston Art by Ben Templesmith Dead Space Salvage Written by Antony Johnston Art by Christopher Shy Published by Titan Books As I mentioned in my review of Dead Space Liberation, there were two other Dead Space trade paperbacks released to coincide with the publication…
Written by Ian Edginton Art by Christopher Shy Published by Titan Books Dead Space is a popular video game, a third-player shooter where the main character fights ‘Necromorphs’ (human corpses reanimated by an alien virus) aboard a spaceship. The first one was released in 2008 (of note, Warren Ellis was…
By Phil and Kaja Foglio Published by Titan Books Girl Genius is a comic book series turned online webcomic written by the Foglios and drawn by Phil, and this book is a novelisation of the first storyline. It has a steampunk setting with an alternative world history but the authors…
Everybody Loves Tank Girl #1–3 Written by Alan Martin Drawn by Jim Mahfood Published by Titan Books Since Tank Girl first appeared in Deadline back in 1988, the visual element of the character and the strips was the main appeal. I have some old Tank Girl comics but I don’t…
Written by Tom Tully Drawn by Joe Colquhoun Published by Titan Books This is the third handsome hardback collection of strips of Johnny Red from Battle in 1978 (I reviewed the first volume previously), compiling the storyline where Johnny ‘Red’ Redburn, a British pilot who ended up in Russia fighting…
Written by Roger Gibson and drawn by Vince Danks Published by Titan Books This hardback collects the six issues of the independent comic, which is (as the author admits) a police procedural television show you might see on ITV on a weekday evening at 8pm, but in comic-book form. It’s…
Turbulence by Samit Basu, Titan Books. Published 7 July (£7.99). Basu is not an author I was aware of before I read this novel, but he’s not a novice writer: he published the first book of his fantasy series, The Gameworld Trilogy, at 23 and has also worked on comic…
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…