I read MOAR comics and summarise them so that you, the layperson, can taste some of the thrilling world of “mainstream comics”. As before, this contains many, many spoilers. (more…)[…]

What with one thing and another I’ve rather fallen behind in my comic reading, so I took the opportunity recently to catch up on a bunch of Marvel and DC stuff, reading a year or so’s worth at a time. Here’s what I thought – n[…]

while huntin the net for info on who wrote or drew BLACK MAX i found this link, to a page detailing the first issue ever on LION comic (23 feb 1952), some 20 years before i was a reader — it lists the contents, as follows:
Outlaw Of Space (wit[…]

When I was a kid, I paid less attention to writers than to artists – the latter are easier to notice, I guess. Also, not only did the Lee-Kirby comics look spectacularly exciting, they were great stories too, and Stan Lee didn’t seem to w[…]

(I’ve written notes on this series before – 500+ pages of reprints of old comics for around £11. First batch of volumes / Second batch. This volume came out today.)
I think this is my favourite continuing war series ever – the[…]

Between Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics arriving in the post and my sitting down to read it, two things happened. First of all, my wife picked it up, flicked through, then settled down and read a few pages, before putting it down and pronouncing,[…]

There is a time in any on-going space opera type science fiction drama when they bump into aliens who claim to be God. Or Gods. Or are just generally ridiculously powerful so they act like gods. Which can only usually mean another thing. They are als[…]

Important scientific breakthrough: man-size sea scorpion found.
Dr Braddy thinks the large scales may have had a lot to do with the absence early on of vertebrate predators. As they came on the scene, these animals would have eaten all the biggest pr[…]

The Savage Critic is a group comics weblog which is well worth reading if you’re into the things (of course if you’re into the things you already know about it). Douglas Wolk, of occasional ILX and music writing note, writes for it occasi[…]

At Poptimism on Saturday I bumped into Vic Fluro of this manor. Now when I bump into him, and he is not desperately trying to wangle a set on the decks, the talk invariably turns to comics. Though we both agreed that they are a pretty dull thing to t[…]