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 ›
Reviews
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 ›
In Review: The Spectators by Victor Hussenot
The Spectators Created by Victor Hussenot Published by NoBrow Hardback, 96 pages. £14.99 ‘What if we are merely shadows, our characters defined by a simple inflection of light? The realm of possibilities opens up, because in our world we are… Read More ›
In Review: SAM – After Man
SAM – After Man is the first in a four-part post-apocalyptic tale of teenagers versus robots written by Richard Marazano and illustrated by Xiao Shang, and the book that won the Best Teenage Album prize at Angouleme in 2012. It… Read More ›
In Review: Abominable Glory by Martin Hayes and Chris Askham
Written by Martin Hayes Art by Chris Askham Letters and Designs by Bram Meehan Cover by Matthew Soffe Published by Markosia “In a snowstorm all soldiers look the same….like fresh meat.“ The Story: A World War Two aircraft crashes in the… Read More ›
In Review: Amongst the Stars (Planet Jimbot)
Written by Jim Alexander Art by Mike Perkins, Will Pickering Published by Planet Jimbot – Black and White interiors (64 pages) The Story: Aliens have nightmares too. Us! An alien race reaches out to planet Earth with its collective mind…. Read More ›
In Review – “Lost Property” by Andy Poyiadgi
Created by Andy Poyiadgi Published by NoBrow Press 24 pages. Full Colour Cover Price – £6.50 The Book: What if all the things you ever lost, each valuable possession you vowed to treasure but could not keep safe, all the misplaced… Read More ›
In Review: Kenya – Encounters
Kenya – Encounters is the second book in Cinebook’s translation of Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post war-Kenya. Tom the native guide… Read More ›
In Review: It’s Even Bigger on The Inside
by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett Publisher: MIWK Publishing Out: 3rd March 2015 The Book: It’s Even Bigger on The Inside collects all the Doctor Who? Strips that ran regularly in Doctor Who Monthly and Doctor Who Magazine from Issue 64 until Issue 225, created by Tim… Read More ›
In Review: Perspective for Comic Artists
By David Chelsea Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc., US (October 1997) The Book: Acclaimed artist and autobiographical cartoonist David Chelsea and his hollow-headed pupil Mug together explore the many aspects of perspective, the art of rendering the visual effect of… Read More ›
In Review: XIII Mystery – The Mongoose
With the original run of XIII now complete for the first time in English, publisher Cinebook move on to the original French spin-off books, XIII Mystery, a series of one-off stories each focussing on individual characters from the XIII universe… Read More ›