This really is a beautifully written book — one of those that you read and are struck by the vivid colours in which everything is depicted. Some classics seem overly bound and anchored by the mores of the period in Read more…
Category: words
Meanings, thoughts about how words are used. Odd observations and thoughts.
Introduction There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengeance, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is The Chain; a covert Read more…
It\’s strange the last two weeks have seemed somewhat more leisurely in their pacing though just as much is revealed. We learn something of how being a Freakangel plays out through someone\’s ethnicity — it was hinted at before in Read more…
the (r)evolution of modern expression: it is a phrase that captures so much of the spirit of mike\’s work, whether it is his art or his writing. the pieces are alive with process, with thought, with meaning — like the Read more…
I came to this really late and I hear that it has been cancelled, which is a real shame. It was a really fun book and the art and the storytelling meshed really well. Like most of the best stories Read more…
I absolutely love this series. It never hits a wrong note and there is no fat on it whatsoever — from the first story onwards it hits the ground running and it makes you run alongside it. You know as Read more…
I was witness to the genesis of this book, and though the book says the seed of an idea was planted in Missouri, I think something had already clicked into place in Chicago. We were both there to record some Read more…
Every single character gets the chance shine here. This week we learn that there is more to Sirkka than was first shown us — that she is not just some shallow hedonist lazing around and thinking of pleasure all day. Read more…
The idea of telling a story through the history of an object is not new and neither is the idea of that object being a gun. Still, if that\’s all there was to this story then it wouldn\’t be Garth Read more…
Dan Dare was one of the first comics that I ever read and it was the version from the fifties that I knew best. Anyone who came on board this enterprise expecting to get a straight take on that Dan Read more…