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Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer & Ed Benes

(DC/Titan)

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

Novelist Brad Meltzer proved he has a knack for comics with the gripping Identity Crisis, perfecting a style of weaving human feelings into tales of world shattering superpowers. This is no mean feat given that it’s often near impossible to anchor the…

Best War Comics

David Kendall

(Robinson)

(3 stars)23 Aug 2007

This really is a weighty tome with over 500 pages of war comics culled from across the world and through the ages (from 1965–2006). Keiji Nakazawa sets the mood with his personal account of the bombing of Hiroshima in I Saw It, a poignant tale that…

Yet more comic adaps

23 Aug 2007

The latest comic to get the big screen treatment is set to be Frank Miller’s The Spirit and Eva Mendes has already signed on to appear. Despite popping up in the less than acclaimed Ghost Rider, Mendes is apparently undaunted enough to pitch up as the…

Silverfish

Silverfish

David Lapham

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

CRIME DRAMA Comics can be amazingly astute when it comes to capturing the teen experience. Charles Burns’ sublime Black Hole (surely one of the greatest comics of all time) and last year’s Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez offered strange and distorted…

The Other Side

The Other Side

Jason Aaron & Cameron Stewart

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

WAR Traditionally, comics that deal in war have been of the GI Joe/Commando camp, revelling in the glory of battle and the heroics of the average man on the frontline. The Other Side, on the other hand, deals with the Vietnam War and the moral…

Batman Black

Batman Black & White Volume 3

(DC/Titan)

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Usually at home as a simple back-up slot in the monthly Batman: Gotham Knights, Batman Black & White has taken on a life of its own and has quickly become a jewel in the crown of DC’s myriad caped crusader titles. A creative playground for various…

Second Sight

(Orion)

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

PSYCHIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mind invasion from strange voices; spooks that go bump in the night; Zulu warrior spirit mates: it’s all a day in the life for Sharon Neill, and, whether you believe in it or not, her autobiography makes for fascinating reading.

Legal bid to ban ‘racist’ Tintin comic

8 Aug 2007

A Congolese student has launched legal action in Belgium to have a controversial comic book declared racist and banned from book stores. Mbutu Mondondo Bienvenu, who lives in Brussels, claims Tintin in the Congo portrays Africans as stereotypical black…

Hitlist - The best books, comics & events

16 Jul 2007

• Harry Potter Week Regardless of whether you love or loathe JK Rowling’s teenage wizard and his fearsome chums, the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the culmination of the most successful children’s book franchise ever, is cause…

Essex County Vol 1: Tales from the Farm

Comics

(4 stars)21 May 2007

FANTASY Superman and flying saucers feature figuratively in Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire’s lovely low-key coming-of-age graphic novel. Set in a fictionalised version of the Ontario agricultural community in which the author grew up (here…

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