Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

Category: comicsphere


This was an amazing story that ran in the 2000ad comic. It was written by John Smith and featured some wonderful artwork by Simon Harrison. It appears, since it was reprinted in Extreme Edition #20 that people on the forums Read more…


In a kind of companion posting alongside Peter Blegvad\’s Leviathan comes Steven Appleby\’s Small Birds Singing. I used to clip both of them out fo the magazines and collect them avidly. Small Birds Singing also used absurdism to explore humanity Read more…


All those people who queue up to get their copies of the Sunday broadsheets so that they look like they might have half a brain in their heads, or to make some stab at a claim for culture may be Read more…


I know it\’s probably not the best thing to be floating theories around before something is notionally out of the gates but there is enough of intrigue already in the Freakangels to get the old noggin working. I was wondering Read more…


Grant Morrison popped into mine and many other\’s consciousnesses through the vehicle of Zenith, a unique spin on the superhero phenomenon that ran weekly in 2000 AD — it would explore many themes that Morrison would later revisit in The Read more…


I originally came across the weird and wonderful world of Cholly and Flytrap, two odd characters living life against a post-apocalyptic background on someĀ  alien planet, in a magazine put out by Manga that included The Light AndDark Wars, Akira, Read more…


I avidly log in to www.warrenellis.com every day to see what the prolific writer\’s eye has been drawn to. i follow and join in the conversations on whitechapel — the community has built around the already brilliant freakangels webcomic. i Read more…


Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield\’s online webcomic Freakangels starts tomorrow. I have been on Whitechapel the community built around it for a while and after seeing the samples of art that have leaked out all I can say is that Read more…


Directed by Brett Ratner. Starring Jennifer Garner, Terrence Stamp, Goran Visnjic. Cert: 12. Running Time: 100 Mins Approx Bad, bad, bad. There usually are some redeeming features to a film. I suppose you can argue that just watching Jennifer Garner Read more…


Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Keanu Reeves; Rachel Weisz; Tilda Swinton. Cert: 15. Running Time: 115 Mins. Another film where the source material is taken more as a jumping off point than the gospel. It\’s another film that has had Read more…