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Batman Incorporated #3: Annocomments (pp1-3)
bobsy: My own and only objection to how Batman Incorporated is proceeding, amidst so far a hat-trick of rapid high impact 21st century superhero comics, is the slight familiarity of the beats as the...
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There’s a blog post in there somewhere
Bryan Talbot creates Alan Moore, from Brainstorm Comix #1, 1975 Cheers to the Keeshman for the gimme. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
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Batman sixty-seven
A bit battered, spine ripped right off, but still – 44 years of existence, mine for a mere seventy-five pee. Batman Annual 1967. It’s all reprint, but the cover looks like original art commissioned in...
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Beast & bobsy’s classic classics: the best of the League of Extraordinary...
I Can See You! Bobsy and I were worried that we’d make this ‘Best Of’ a bit too Hyde-heavy, but it seems somewhat inevitable that this would the case, given the crowd pleasing nature of the big ugly...
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Beast and bobsy’s classic classics: the best of the League of Extraordinary...
Welcome to England Perhaps the most terrifying words ever read in a comic? The Martian invaders, who Wells presents as being foul on a level deep enough to be both visceral and ontological, are upon...
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Eurobaddies: a spotter’s guide
Hooray! It’s the 80s! Reaganomics forever unshackles money from concrete notions of labour and production! Credit and finance win forever! But wait: the American psyche becomes suspicious – it can...
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Great moments in bastardry – Kill ‘em all
More vile shite here. ‘Multi award-winning writer Mark Millar has revamped the X-Men, launched a number one Spider-Man title, brought Captain America into the 21st Century and made Superman a...
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The Telly Terror 1: Elephant
Watch this clip. Do so unaware and unshielded, and come back and read the rest of the post after the clip has made you a different person. For the full authentic experience, or as close as you’ll get...
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Telly Terror: Threads
aka the obvious one… Like Elephant, I didn’t see Threads at the time. It was deliberate this time, another video, borrowed years later on the strength of fearsome reputation. I think – but these...
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Bulletproof Omen
Elephantmen #33, by Richard Star King and Shaky Kane. Gregory Wright on colours. Image 2011. Despite his brutal murder in the final issue of The Bulletproof Coffin, Richard Star King, undead and...
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Zak to the Zuture: Z000AD prog 1ZZ5
NOT the best comic got this week – that was the Dahmer one, shit man – but five pages of McCarthy = min five extra pp worth reading, so ten in total twenty-three and a half pee a page, stiff but SOLD!...
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Post-atomic gold: Zilk-Dredd
Quick look at how the trapeze strung out between these two strips is, on balance, making 2000AD the easy-best regularly published, mainstream, Anglophone, you know what I mean, don’t split hairs,...
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SILENCE! #21
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!!!!! Welcome then, gentle listen-folk, to the Twilight Zone….where anything can happen. Such as Gary Lactus NOT appearing on this week’s edition of the internet’s favourite...
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THE NEGATIVE ZONE: Saga #1
The ‘S’ you may have seen is silent, actually, so we’re just going to call it by its True Name, Aga. Welcome to the Star Wars comic where every character is Jar Jar Binks. Open with a joke: There’s...
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AVX #11: Suck and Chuck
Not: Night of the Weirwolf Do you remember that Wolverine story where he goes all edgy and kills some superheroes, and the only ones he in fact murders are disabled or gay? It was written by staunch...
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The Great Unwashed: cleansing questions with Gary Pleece
The Great Unwashed by Gary and Warren Pleece, Escape Books, 2012 The Great Unwashed – basically the lost forgotten Koh-i-Noor of the 90s English comics scene, bit mucky with inky beer and fag-ash,...
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Yesterday’s comics – Today!
Or the day before’s – don’t get all stuck on it. SPOILERS follow, if you’re the kind of person who misguidedly believes in the existence of such a thing. The Phoenix #47 by Various, David Fickling...
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Comicbook reviews on the internet
Not a very shopbound week this week, so mostly library fodder. Go to the library: as we’ll see, they have some amazing free comics there. On the shopfront though, there was… The Phoenix #48 by Various,...
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Batman Incorporated Volume 2 #6
Script by Grant Morrison. Art by Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn. DC Comics. NO JOKER. [The term 'Batman' here simultaneously refers both to both the well known character/intellectual property...
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