Category: comics
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Recent Reading
So I recently finished Prophet, by Brandon Graham, Giannis Milogiannis, Simon Roy and Farel Dalrymple. The final volume, Earth War, rounds out the story set a few years ago in the the far-far-future, with the final battle between Old Man Prophet and the resurrected Earth Empire. It was sad to see the series come to…
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Superidol
If you look back through the history of this site, I like reading Warren Ellis. I remember a Warren Ellis/Coleen Doran story – Superidol – a story about a meme consuming the world in the form of a computer-generated idol singer from Japan. I only read it once (until recently), but it stuck with me…
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Desolation Jones
I finally picked up a copy of Desolation Jones. This one has been on the back burner for a little time. After reading The Big Sleep and while halfway through the Maltese Falcon, I decided to order a copy of Desolation Jones, just to read it again. I collected the single issues when it came…
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False Positive Mini-Comic
Just received my False Positive mini-comic and some bookmarks. I could have sworn I felt a button in there, but it was probably just some weird, eldritch-looking beetle, which has now escaped. Thanks Big Mike!
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Zine Round-Up
So, last week I bought a bunch of zines. And then I sort of forgot about them. So here is what I bought Mr Unpronouncable by Tim Molloy Basically it looks and reads like like a mix between a Lovecraft and Woodring book. The art reminds me heavily of Jim Woodring’s The Frank Book. Here…
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Private Eye
The new comic by Brian K Vaughn, Marcos Martin and Munsta Vicente, set in the future where the Internet crashed and everyone preserves their privacy, even to the point of maintaining a “Nym”, an alter-ego with costume. It is a world where journalists are the police and paparazzi, vigilantes. The story focuses on man with…
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Space Creep
The other week Gus Storms was nice enough to send me a digital copy of his comic called Space Creep. It’s pretty neat. Reminds me of those few Euro-comics that I read like The Incal and The Horde. I still really like that colour palette. Not sure how many times Mr. Storms will hand out…
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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…
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King City
I was prompted to read King City after seeing via JWZ. I never read a Brandon Graham comic before and this one, a massive black-and-white volume, left me flabbergasted. The art is western-manga styled, and feels and reads like an underground style comic. Something that sells out at a high-end ‘zine fair. The eponymous city…
The Screaming Wall 