The exploration of violence in these two volumes takes many twists and turns. The first volume struck me as being more grounded but both of them have a resonant emotional core that connects with the reader on a very visceral Read more…
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Re-imaginings and Batman go hand in hand it seems, as just glancing downwards through the pages of this blog might indicate. This isn\’t so much a character overhaul more a significance overhaul by placing Batman within a long line of Read more…
Brought to you by messrs. Brian Augustyn, Michael Mignola, P. Craig Russell, David Hornung. In places where I have been hanging out in a virtual capacity there has been much discussion of the design of book covers and how this Read more…
Click the above link to go and read the lovely little piece of flash fiction that I have just had published on this great site. Once you get there hang around and check out the other work. This site has Read more…
This comic really grabs you from the first piece of art that you see until the last. Having been a part of Warren Ellis\’s Whitechapel community since it\’s launch I and others have been privileged to get an insight into Read more…
This week\’s episode, which I am reporting on late thanks to various computer issues, was beautiful. The art work in this series as a whole has been beautiful and it is as much for the ideas that drive the artwork Read more…
This book has wonderful art and a really involving story. You look at the cover and you might be in danger as writing it off as being some emo bullshit with fake pain and no real soul but you\’d be Read more…
With the Batman and Judge Dredd team up I complained about the fact that the story was somewhat flimsy and that the great artwork lacked a narrative backbone or drive (well, I intimated that anyway). I like the ideas of Read more…
After reading the first team up between Dredd and Batman it was almost inevitable that I was going to be around for the second one. This one definitely didn\’t pack the same punch as Judgment In Gotham though. The premise Read more…
There is nothing out there quite like it. Ellis is not just creating something that no other major comics writers are creating, namely a webcomic that comes out every week, he is creating a narrative that is pretty uncommon in Read more…