Story by Tom Veitch Art by Cam Kennedy On Sale from 27th May 2015 Publisher: Titan Comics 208 pages | Full Colour | Previews Order Code: JAN151610 | £17.99 The Story: Lazarus Jones is a Vietnam War veteran who lost his legs in… Read More ›
Reviews
In Review: DTHRTL (Death Rattle) – Book 1 of 3
. Created by Bob Turner The Story: This is the wordless and psychedelic adventure of a cyclops like creature who falls through incident to incident in a crazy and colourful landscape. With the figure of Death following him around and… Read More ›
The Birmingham Comics Festival 2015: A View From the Trenches
The mysterious but thankfully only occasional vagaries of internet communication delayed delivery of this report by Paul H. Birch on the well-received Birmingham Comics Festival, but it’s here now! Enjoy… Walking the fully-glazed curved length of Edgbaston Cricket Stadium’s committee lounge… Read More ›
In Review: The Last Batch
Written by Chris Sides Art by Dan Cornwell Letters by Ken Reynolds The Story: This is a tale of zombies. They are taking over everywhere. Well everywhere that sells a certain type of dark stout, anyway. A worker in a… Read More ›
In Review: Thread Bear and Other Stories
Created by Alan Henderson “Dedicated to all the old toys we’ve loved, lost or forgotten.” The Story: This comic is a series of short stories about the toys of our childhoods. We see long forgotten and once loved bears, dolls… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews
Hello! The three comics I’m reviewing this month bring me to within a year of now (the reading pile is getting smaller by the month!) and came respectively from Thought Bubble 2013, my local comic shop Excelsior in Bristol and as a… Read More ›
In Review: CC3 by Rob Burton and A Klassen
Written by Rob Burton Art by A Klassen Published by Mindstain This is an unusual comic to pick up in today’s small-press comics arena. For one, this comic is not wall to wall illustration. For two, this comic forces you… Read More ›
In Review – Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 4
Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell I was fortunate enough to get to review the last issue of this anothology series and that was pretty darn good – but I am pleased to say that this release –… Read More ›
Sneak Preview – Pumpin’ Jam: 13 Short Stories that Claim to be Inspirational
Written, Drawn and Designed by Ed Traquino aka Feliq A friend of mine once described sitting in Ed Traquino’s company like sitting in a hilarious wind tunnel. Hair continuously blown back in relentless laughing. He’s non-stop creatively and personally…. Read More ›
Webcomic Review – World of Grey
Written by Bobby Lucenti Art by Brian Vander Webcomic available for free at www.worldofgreycomic.com The Story: Waking in a world far advanced than the one he remembers and bound with a highly advanced exoskin of unknown origins and seemingly… Read More ›
In Review: Tales Of WesterNoir – Book One
One of my favourite small press series over the last couple of years has been writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley’s WesterNoir published by Accent UK. The series follows Josiah Black who hunts supernatural creatures in the Old West and… Read More ›
In Review: Dee-Con and Dundee Comics Expo 2015
The free anime/manga/cosplayer convention now known as Dee-Con has been running in one form or another at the University of Dundee’s DUSA Student’s Union on a Saturday around Eastertime since 2009. Originally named D-Con (as a contraction of Dundee Convention)… Read More ›
In Review: Royal Descent
I do not normally start any of my reviews with a disclaimer, but this review, published in advance of the release of Issue Three of this series later this month, needs one. **Disclaimer** If you have right wing views, read… Read More ›
In Review: Fantasy Sports Volume 1 by Sam Bosma
Written and drawn by Sam Bosma Published by NoBrow Press Oversized hardback. 56 pages. Full colour Price: £12.95 “A fast-paced sports adventure graphic novel in the vein of 1960s manga, Mike Mignola and Raiders of the Los Ark.” The Story: Sam… Read More ›
In Review – World 3
Written by Neil Sambrook Art by Ari Syahrazad, Earl Geier and Tim Sundt Published by Fly Comics I was lucky enough to meet the writer and driving force behind Fly Comics, Neil Sambrook, at Nottingham Comicon a couple of… Read More ›
In Review: Saltire – Annihilation Part 2
Writer: John Ferguson Art: Claire Roe Colour: Lauren Knight Publisher: Diamond Steel Comics Out: 11th April 2015 The Book: As blood thins and silence echoes, a fresh torment builds behind the southern wall. When heroes fall, who will stand against an… Read More ›
In Review: Desdemona – Volume 1: Forgotten Crimes
Written by Giuseppe Di Bernardo & Francesco Matteuzzi Art by Michela Da Sacco & Michele Benevento Cover Artist – Claudia Sg Letterer and Designer – Denise Di Prima Translator – Nigel Borg Published by DieGo Comics Publishing DieGo are… Read More ›
London Super Comic Con 2015 – A DownTheTubes Photo Report
London Super Comic Con was held at the Excel Centre in the Docklands again this year and is fast becoming one of my favourite comic events. I popped in for Day One of the weekend and had a absolute blast. The… Read More ›
In Review: Wisher – The Faeriehood
Cinebook’s translated adventures of the world’s last genie returns in writer Sebastien Latour and artist Guilio De Vita’s Wisher – The Faeriehood. In the previous book, Nigel (the Wisher of the title) discovered that supernatural creatures are real and living… Read More ›
Comics, So What? at Dundee University: A Good Day Had By All!
For most of us, the idea of a day chatting and hearing about comics has to be as close to a perfect way to spend an afternoon as we could get. In this event, Dundee University got it exactly… Read More ›