Do European comics offer stronger long term solutions for the future of the comics medium? Peter Duncan investigates with reviews of three titles from Europe Comics…
Reviews
In Review: Colour Out of Space
The colour is purple, now that ‘spoiler’ is out of the way you can focus on the rest of Tim Robin’s review of the new film
In Review: Deadly! Irish History – The Vikings by John Farrelly
John Farrelly might just be one of the finest cartoonists you’ve never heard of
In Pictures: The Life and Times of Orcadian Artist Jim Baikie Exhibition
Comic artist Tony O’Donnell was lucky enough to explore The Life and Times of Orcadian Artist Jim Baikie exhibition
In Review: Doctor Who – The Timeless Children
Tim Robins is both aggravated and delighted by the Doctor Who series finale…
In Review: Pete Doree’s Stan & Jack #1
What If… Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had their own multiverse-spanning adventures, alongside telling superhero stories at Marvel Comics?
In Review: The Sheerglam Conspiracy by Steve MacManus
Colin Noble has rediscovered his copy of the legendary novel, The Sheerglam Conspiracy by Steve MacManus – find out what he thinks of it!
In Review: 2000AD Prog 2170 “Regened”
Peter Duncan offers his views on this week’s 2000AD, Prog 2170, a follow-up to last year’s Regened Prog, all-ages issue, and the first of four planned for 2020
Avery Hill Publishing: Always Offering Something a Little Different
Reviews of Lizzy Stewart’s Walking Distance and B. Mure’s The Tower in the Sea by Peter Duncan
In Review: Doctor Who – Ascension of the Cybermen
Tim Robins tries to make sense of Ascension of the Cybermen, which is not as easy for him as you might think…
Looking Back at “The Boys” – A Retrospective Review by Luke Williams
Luke Williams gives us a retrospective review of the original of The Boys, co-created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson…
In Review: Vanguard Volume Three by Dan Butcher
Peter Duncan reviews the latest collection of the British superhero epic Vanguard…
In Review: Doctor Who – The Haunting Of Villa Diodati
The Doctor and her gang arrive at the Villa Diodati at Lake Geneva in 1816 on the night that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Paul Mount doesn’t find the subsequent story wanting…
In Review: The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs
Joe Gordon reviews “The Wolf of Baghdad” by Carol Isaacs, “a beautifully-crafted, warmly emotional work”….
In Review: Doctor Who – Can You Hear Me?
From ancient Syria to present day Sheffield, and out into the wilds of space, something is stalking the Doctor and her friends. Paul Mount ponders the positives and pitfalls of “Can You Hear Me?”
In Review: Gothic for Girls by Julia Round
Peter Duncan reviews Julia Round’s fascinating and much-praised academic study of Misty comic…
In Review: Doctor Who – Praxeus
Paul Mount argues Praxeus delivers us fifty minutes of Doctor Who that just sits there in the season like a contractual obligation, an episode which exists because it has to be there, and there’s a budget to be spent.
In Review: Sentinel Issue One – Special Delivery
Created by Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle, Sentinel is a throwback, taking its inspiration, and its dimensions, from DC Thomson’s much-missed digest title, Starblazer. Sector 13 editor Peter Duncan reviews this new venture…
In Review: Doctor Who – Fugitive of the Judoon
Paul Mount argues Doctor Who – Fugitive of the Judoon leaves us with far more questions than answers…
In Review: Doctor Who – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror is great rollicking fun. Metvier’s script is nimble and fleet-footed, action sequences rattle along, never at the expense of the story, argues reviewer Paul Mount…