Joe Sacco, writer and illustrator, born in Malta, raised in Australia and based in America, is a comics journalist who tends to document war from the other side – not the side of the soldiers who do the fighting but… Read More ›
Reviews
In Review: The Scorpion – The Angel’s Shadow
Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Enrico Marini’s The Scorpion returns in The Angel’s Shadow, the second part of the latest on-going story of the swashbuckling 18th century rogue and his battles with the less-than-holy Pope Trebaldi. Trebaldi’s army of warrior… Read More ›
In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 2
2013 sees Cinebook working their way through the three parts of Edgar P Jacob’s first Blake and Mortimer story The Secret Of The Swordfish and they have reached Book 2 with the spoiler-ish sub-title of Mortimer’s Escape. The cold war… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – Giants
Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Gzegorz Rosinski’s tales of the Viking adventurer Thorgal continue in Giants. Picking up from where Ogotai’s Crown, the previous book, left off Giants moves away from the science fiction time traveling of that book… Read More ›
In Review: Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!
A highly illustrated children’s storybook, Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!, written and illustrated by John Fardell and published by Andersen Press is aimed at pre- and early primary school children. Jeremiah Jellyfish drifts in the oceans with his extended family getting… Read More ›
In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 1
Edgar P Jacobs’ adventurers Professor Phillip Mortimer and British agent Captain Francis Blake first appeared in the first issue of the Belgian bilingual weekly Le Journal De Tintin (French printing)/Kuifje (Flemish printing) which was dated 26 September 1946. That first… Read More ›
In Review: The Last Ever Dandy Summer Special
I finally received a copy of The Last Ever Dandy Summer Special, and thoroughly enjoyed it. As I’ve said before over on Wacky Comics, I’m not sure about the “Last Ever” part of the title: I can’t help but think… Read More ›
In Review: The Silver Darlings
The Silver Darlings is the debut graphic novel by writer/artist Will Morris and is published by Blank Slate Books. It is 1967 and in the port of Dunure on Scotland’s Firth Of Clyde the small family-owned fishing boat The Silver… Read More ›
In Review: 3 Seconds by Marc-Antoine Mathieu
by Marc-Antoine Mathieu Publisher: Jonathan Cape Out: 22nd August 2013 Reviewed by Steve Walsh The Book: This is a detective mystery. It lasts only 3 seconds. Which is enough time for a particle of light to travel 900,000 kilometres. And… Read More ›
In Review: Monkey Nuts
One of the humour comic strips in the weekly DFC comic in 2008 and 2009, Monkey Nuts Book 1: The Diamond Egg Of Wonders written by Robin Etherington and illustrated by brother Lorenzo Etherington, was originally released as a DFC… Read More ›
In Review: Numbercruncher #1
Writer: Si Spurrier Artist: PJ Holden Colourist: Jordie Bellaire Publisher: Titan Comics Out: Now The Comic: Dying young, a brilliant Mathematician discovers a way to cheat the terrifying Divine Calculator. He schemes to be endlessly reincarnated in the life of… Read More ›
In Review: The Complete Rainbow Orchid
Originally started some ten years ago in black and white in the small press magazine BAM!, Garen Ewing’s adventure of Julius Chancer has had as long a journey as its erstwhile hero has in the story. Originally published as three… Read More ›
In Review: Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol #1
by Stuart Jennett Publisher: Titan Comics Out: Now (all good comic ships and digital outlets) The Comic: When the Allies and Nazis develop time-diving technology that could see the Second World War derailed by creatures from the Cretaceous, only the… Read More ›
In Review: Drowntown Book One
New from Jonathan Cape Books is Drowntown, the new graphic novel written by Robbie Morrison and illustrated by Jim Murray. In the not too distant future, flooded London remains a bustling metropolis of wealth, workers and wrongdoers. Leo Noiret is… Read More ›
In Review – Project Luna: 1947
by Martin Hayes and Jim Boswell Publisher: Markosia Out: Now (Hardcover) Trade: 1st July 2013 The Book: Set in 1947, amidst the largest UFO flap in history, four disparate crew members are chosen to go to the moon to investigate… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke – Phil Wire
Cinebook have hit the big 4-0 as far as Lucky Luke is concerned with Phil Wire. This particular book dates back to 1956 when it was published in French as the eighth Lucky Luke title, Lucky Luke Contre Phil Defer,… Read More ›
In Review: Darwin’s Diaries – Dual Nature
Writer Sylvain Runberg, who also writes the future worlds of Orbital, returns with Dual Nature, the third of the nineteen century set Darwin’s Diaries with art from Eduardo Ocana and which continues the ongoing story of scientist Charles Darwin’s investigation… Read More ›
In Review: Drowntown Book One
by Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray Publisher: Jonathan Cape Out: 20th June 2013 The Book: An epic adventure set in a flooded futuristic London that hurls down-at-heel minder Leo Noiret head first into a web of intrigue, murder, revenge and… Read More ›
In Review: 2D Festival 2013
Maura McHugh had a wonderful time at 2D Northern Ireland Comic Book Festival in Derry last weekend. As usual there was fantastic hospitality by the gang from Derry’s Verbal Arts Centre who organised the festival. All of them, including the… Read More ›
In Review: Dan Dare – Spacefleet Operations Manual (John Freeman’s take)
by Rod Barzilay; Illustrated by Graham BleathmanPublisher: HaynesOut: Now The Book: Dan Dare is easily the most famous British comic hero. His adventures appeared in the original Eagle comic during the 1950s and 1960s, but he also featured briefly in… Read More ›