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…
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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…
What if you’d spent your whole life in a cage, never glimpsing the world outside? What if everything you knew was darkness, fear and cold, clinical steel? What if one day, an angel came to you with a message of Read more…
This was something permanently lodged in my brain as something that presented the whole idea of a post-apocalypse world in a more realistic way than a lot of comics and other media. It was bleak, and McMahon\’s stylised art seemed Read more…
The best ideas tend to be the simple ones — high concept is fine but has to be cooked with as much delicacy and precision as a souffle. This story takes a simple premise — a person who has a Read more…
I wasn\’t sure what to expect from this book which may be a stupid thing to say given how much I have read Mr Ellis, both in the form of his graphic novels and the regular missives from his website. Read more…
This week a lot of the geographical world seemed to hang together more in a visual sense than just a notional one. We got to meet another of the Freakangels: Kirk. The story-telling thus far in both the art and Read more…
The internet jesus is back in his kingdom and all is well with the world. The story is shaping up nicely — thus far the episodes have been the equivalent to one of those tracking shots that swoops in and Read more…
It seems like such a long time since I used to buy comics on a monthly basis but this was one that I absolutely had to have. I think the thing that may have first attracted me, and I may Read more…
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…