(or “heterogenous ideas yok’d by violence together” as dr sourpuss johnson had it)
item #1: GOURMET PRINGLES[…]

i watched two eps of the 4400 last night: not much to report except a. they are wasting summer glau and b. SCARY BABY
T and I very much enjoyed SCARY BABY — as a device it is basically i. the er ULTIMATE VALIDATION OF SOVIET MONTAGE THEORY and […]

Unusually for a big event, there is actually an awful lot to say about Marvel’s Civil War series, the last issue of which hits UK shops today. I’m not going to say an awful lot in this post: basically, as a comic it was kind of rub, as a […]

Much like those eminently satisfying reports of wine experts preferring £4 Sainsbury’s plonk in a blind taste test, Gramophone magazine finds that an obscure pianist who built a cult following on the back of an astonishing variety of accomplis[…]

“[John Thelwall] also had the misfortune to be a mediocre poet — a crime which, although it is committed around us every day — historians and critics cannot forgive.” —E.P.Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class*
It was ca[…]

One of the top reads on the interwebs lately has been The Diary Of Ralph Dibny, even though it’s completely incomprehensible if you’re not a comics fan who’s been reading DC’s 52 series. The conceit of the comic is that it tel[…]

Fantastic Four #225 – “The Blind God’s Tears”
Published: 1980
Creative Team: Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz
Summary: The team have found themselves in a strange crystal biosphere, somewhere in the Arctic Circle, where a ra[…]

in-depth socio-cultural analysis is required of what large lorries do and say when backing up viz:
i. beeping (common) (as muck)
ii. “ATTENTION! This VE-HICLE is reVARSING!” (i hear this most weeks in hackney, but have not yet seen the lo[…]

One of my favourite old bits of FT was Funny Folk, Al Ewing’s take on the New Yorker cartoons, which adequately speared the obvious: namely that New Yorker cartoons not only stated the obvious, they stated the obvious five years after anyone el[…]

This is the first in an irregular series of posts looking at issues of FANTASTIC FOUR, “The World’s Greatest Comics Magazine”. There are several reasons I picked this title:
– It’s sometimes been very good and sometimes […]