It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth
Zoe Thorogood, writer & illustrator
Image Comics, 2022
British cartoonist Zoe Thorogood subtitled this memoir of six months of her life "An auto-bio-graphic-novel." Despite the success of her graphic novel The
Read more…Mastermind is a British TV quiz show where members of the public are subjected to two rounds of questions against the clock. The first round is one and a half minutes long on a specialist subject of their choice. The second, general knowledge round
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Soon after buying my first Hulk comics (Incredible Hulk #167 and Marvel Super-Heroes #38), I began collecting backissues of both series as well as any reprints I could find elsewhere. I eventually acquired reprints of those elusive first six issues
Read more…Think back to when you were 12 years old.
You were likely in 6th grade at school.
There's a good chance you were entering puberty as well, and it was both exciting and scary at the same time.
Presuming you were a comics fan, your tastes probably ran
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The Night Eaters Vol. 1: She Eats the Night
Marjorie Liu, writer; Sana Takeda, illustrator
Abrams ComicArts, 2022
The first of a trilogy of graphic novels by the creative team behind the Monstress series, The Night Eaters is about Chinese American tw
Read more…These days, archival collections of The Defenders are likely to lead off with the "Titans Three" story (from Sub-Mariner #34-35) or even the "Undying Ones" crossover trilogy (from Doctor Strange #183, Sub-Mariner #22 and Hulk #126), but I like to go
Read more…Story He was in a lot of stuff when I was a kid, and then just mostly stopped acting.
Read more…So yeah, another reading project. My Luke Cage project is nearing it's end, so I figured I'd start another.
As of right now, I'm not sure how far I'm going to go with this particular project. I'll definitely be covering Tales of Suspense #59-99. I m
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ASSASSINS APPRENTICE I #2
CARMILLA: THE FIRST VAMPIRE TPB
Mature | $19.99
This winter, Berger Books and Dark Horse pr
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THE BOOK
Date: 1954
Author: Ian Fleming
“This is the most racist book I’ve ever read, and I’m including Gone with the Wind in that.” — Joan Carr, December 2022.
That’s my wife, for those who don’t know, and this was her first comment
Read more…Joe Hill's Rain
Joe Hill, story; David M. Booher, adaptation; Zoe Thorogood, art; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2022
This five-issue miniseries was adapted from a novella of the same name in the prose collection Strange Weather (2017). Hill
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Read more…Twig
Skottie Young, writer; Kyle Strahm, art & designs
Image Comics, 2022
Twig is a fantasy miniseries that combines a mission to save the world with super-cute graphics. The titular character is an adorable little blue-haired critter who became a "p
Read more…I just learned that comic book artist Jason Pearson has passed away at the age of 52. I was always a huge fan of his work. Whether it was from his work from the Legion on Super-heroes to his creator owned stuff like Body Bags. I actually had the plea
Read more…Lazarus Vol. 7: Fracture II
Greg Rucka, writer; Michael Lark, art; Santi Arcas, colors; Simon Bowland, letters
Image Comics, 2022
The previous volume was published in 2020, so apparently, fans will have to be prepared for long gaps between installmen
Read more…Earl Bowen, the perpetually bald character actor with the hangdog mien, dies of Stage 4 lung cancer at 81.
From Variety: "Earl Boen, Actor in ‘The Terminator’ Movies, Dies at 81"
Boen appeared in three of the Terminator movies, but I know him from It's
Read more…DC just released a TON of Vertigo titles on its DCU Infinite Ultra* service. So I figured I'd take a look at some Vertigo books I haven't read for a while -- probably not since they came out. I'm not the biggest re-reader. First up: Shade the Changin
Read more…Back in the early 2Ks, DC Comics released a total of 17 volumes collecting all of Jack Kirby's 1970s output for the company an a good chunk of the work he did with his partner Joe Simon in the 1940s. One thing DC didn't release was S&K's "Manhunter"
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