Ed Brubaker is one of those surefooted writers who you know you can rely on to deliver a perfectly paced, character-driven piece of writing. This is something I find pretty impressive when I consider the different genres that I have Read more…
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This looks really cool. I like that sometimes intuition draws you back to a place you haven\’t looked at in a while, and when you get there you find you turned up at just the right moment. Disenchanted is following Read more…
I enjoyed this immensely. I am glad that Battling Boy is coming close on its heels, because this whets the appetite. Pope is like none other when it comes to generating a kinetic breakneck speed of narrative, where you find Read more…
2000ad was one of those things that shaped my whole sensibility. Before I read a science fiction book or knew what dystopian really was, 2000ad had been warping my mind and giving me dark thoughts about stories I wanted to Read more…
I am not sure I quite got what I was expecting when I ordered this. I love Brandon Graham and this is kind of like his website – a little scattershot, charming, and full of humour. It is definitely something Read more…
Warren Ellis turned me on to Brandon Graham through his Royal Boiler site and from there I started to explore and track down as much of his work as I could find. King City was my first love, but I Read more…
With some stories it is the art that arrives with you first; with some it is the words – neither of these is a bad thing, they just speak of different techniques perhaps, but with Invisible Inc from Brendan McGinley Read more…
I found this strip through Daniel Merlin Goodbrey who is also the writer on Necessary Monsters another site which I check on regularly. Noble\’s artwork is perhaps an acquired taste but one which I found myself getting hooked on pretty Read more…
This comic has a great feel from the start — an atmosphere that permeates from the establishing panels of the first installment right through to the current week\’s episode. It has grit — the same kind of grit that pumped Read more…
I have to admit to knowing very little about the real Helen Keller, but she is one of those people whose names floats around the ether and is known even if you don\’t know exactly what she is famous for. Read more…