Month: February 2013

  • Gun Machine Review

    Gun Machine Review

    I finished reading Warren Ellis’ Gun Machine a couple of days ago. This would be the first novel I’ve read by the same guy who wrote one of mine (and countless others’) favourite comics, Transmetropolitan. Gun Machine is about Detective John Tallow who, through an encounter with a naked man and a shotgun, is left…

  • Batman – Death by Design

    Batman – Death by Design

    It’s a Batman vs Architecture story. The book has the looks of being set back in that “Immortal Deco” period that the Batman: The Animated Series was set in, most of the art appears to be in pencil, with washes of digital colour. The story is basically this: The Old Wayne Central Station, a massive…

  • Buddha Machines!

    Yesterday I got new Buddha Machines and new Buddha Machine-related albums. The Buddha Machine was something introduced to me about three years ago now. Originally I saw it in a friend’s bedsit, sitting on a shelf looking like a cheap plastic radio. He noticed I was looking at it, and explained the entire concept of…