Greatest superhero comic story ever?

I was just rereading Grant Morrison’s run on the JLA, and there isn’t a superhero story I love more than his final epic. It starts with Luthor and a couple of other deadly JLA foes banding together, d[…]

The Independents’ That Summer column has now been running for a decade. Writers contribute holiday tales where the only criteria is a memorable experience.
From awkward fumbles with French exchange students to getting arrested in awkward places[…]

Jack Kirby fans reprazent: very very glad to see this back on the web. Also much more terrific old material at I Want A Blog. “No one saw the old man’s GRIM SMILE.”[…]

Not entirely surprising but oh how I wish I had 15 million quid to splash out on this and annoy the neighbours. Add to the list of lovely buildings that never were…[…]

It’s hard to watch half an hour of film title sequences without the films. It’s like foreplay without fucking, over and over again. Still, you take what you can get. This Saul Bass exhibition is well worth the effort. The denial and frust[…]

I went to see the stage version of When Harry Met Sally last night. Yes, yes, purely for research purposes, though it was actually quite a light, fun evening – which reminded me that like any form of entertainment sometime theatre should be jus[…]

National Geographic have reprinted a series of adventure & exploration classics. The usual suspects are included; Lewis & Clark, Cherry-Garrard, Howard Carter etc.
I’ve read a couple and the original text has been left unaltered, with[…]

I saw  a show of fairly typical Himalayan mountain crafts today, and they didn’t really move me in any way, they were nice, and there was something to be said against aesthiciasing functional objects, but nothing that hasn’t been said b[…]

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All of them involve some sort of portraiture or action shots of people. These ten are all quite badly posed, titled and presented, but I feel uncomfortable about also pointing and laughing at ugly and/or poorly dressed people. And surely every l[…]

Reading two or more books at once is an often confusing but interesting thing to do, particularly if the two inform each other in amusing and/or startling ways, or if you can make a funny title out of combining them.
At the moment I’ve got Ann[…]