I feel like there was something about the way the character was acted that wrapped it all up in a neat bundle of white privilege and cultural appropriation. If that were the concept’s problem, why did The Arrow not draw similar fire? Read more…
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I was sold on the book from the first image I saw of it. I buy and read pretty much everything Warren Ellis writes, so I would have found it anyway, and I subscribe to his letter, which is an Read more…
Paul Duffield, the great artist that worked on Warren Ellis\’s Freakangels is working on this great new project, which you should go and check out.
This wasn\’t one of the best Batman stories I have read – it was shackled too much to the source material, and by that I don\’t mean Batman, I mean Frankenstein. I liked some of the other Elseworlds stories, but Read more…
A little different to Scott Pilgrim. In fact it took me a second to realise I was reading a book from the same author. Great awareness, right? But I vaguely recognised the artistic flourishes of O\’malley. This was a quick Read more…
Thank you, Jonathan Hickman, for giving me the Fantastic Four back. In simpler times I watched the cartoon on TV, and this was before DVD and the Internet, so it took a while to piece the story together, but I Read more…
I suppose that recognising something of yourself in a character is nothing new … In fact I know it\’s not, and the degree to which the writer / artist pulls you into the heart of that magic can be the Read more…
I have been following Jason Howard only since he hooked up with Warren Ellis for Scatterlands, and I have loved what I have seen of Trees. I started following him on twitter and found out about Super Dinosaur And after Read more…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX1HJMV3SYE&w=560&h=315] This looks very interesting.
I love John Smith – I think the first thing by him that I ever read was Indigo Prime. I have enjoyed Devlin Waugh. I loved Revere. There is something in his writing that is akin to Grant Morrison, something Read more…