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Chris Ware - comic review

Chris Ware

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

WARPED HUMOUR The 17th volume of Chris Ware’s now self-published irregular comic continues the sad tale of Rusty Brown, a pre-pubescent dork who lives in a snowbound small town in America’s mid-west, where he stubbornly clings to his best friend, a…

Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy - comic review

Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

LITERARY ADAPTATION Robert Louis Stevenson’s celebrated historical adventure doesn’t need pictures to enhance its power. But this graphic novel adaptation, produced as part of the One Book ?" One Edinburgh reading campaign, successfully captures the…

Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato Jr - comic review

Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato Jr

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

SUPERHERO Having run for the past few years as a fanboy-friendly graveyard for all of Marvel’s most colourful and perhaps least inspiring villains, this first issue of Warren Ellis’ tour of duty as writer promises to make it a title worth…

Denise Mina & Leonardo Manco - comic review

Denise Mina & Leonardo Manco

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

HORROR Bitter mage John Constantine makes his way to Scotland, as crime writer Denise Mina (Field of Blood/The Dead Hour) makes her first foray into comics, bringing Constantine onto her home territory, Glasgow, the setting for most of her mystery…

Fountain, The - Darren Aronofsky feature

Waves of mutilation

12 Jan 2007

Speaking to the website Comic Book Resources in May 2005, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky said: ‘I knew it was a hard film to make, and I said if Hollywood fucks me over at least I’ll make a comic book out of it.’ They did, and so he did.

Ed Brubaker & Trevor Hairsine - comic review

Ed Brubaker & Trevor Hairsine

(4 stars)9 Jan 2007

SUPERHERO Comics have embraced and pioneered the ret-con more that any other artistic medium. For the less geeky amongst us, a ret-con is ‘retro continuity’, the art of going back and retelling the past so it vaguely makes sense with what’s gone…

Preview of the year 2007

2007 is about the future. And about the past. It’

3 Jan 2007

THE FUTURE Cyberspace invaders We may not be flying around in hover cars or wearing spangly all-silver outfits, but thanks to the internet the future has truly arrived. And the revolution will continue apace in 2007, argues Suzanne Black. A…

Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi - comic review

Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi

(4 stars)19 Dec 2006

MANGA/CRIME This is the crime manga that inspired South Korean director Chan-wook Park’s acclaimed Cannes Grand Jury prize-winning film of the same name. Translated into English for the first time since it was published in 1997, Dark Horse have…

EC Segar - comic review

EC Segar

(3 stars)19 Dec 2006

CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS Mainly remembered for his eating habits rather than his comic prowess, Popeye has been about since 1929, as a character in the cast of Thimble Theatre, EC Segar’s farcical, vaudevillian comic saga that was initially published in…

Warren Ellis & JH Willliams III - comic review

Warren Ellis & JH Willliams III

(3 stars)19 Dec 2006

SCI-FI This is just what Warren Ellis revels in, dark sci-fi with a nasty twist. And while Desolation Jones isn’t up to the standards of the blackly comic Transmetropolitan, it starts with a bang and is far bleaker than most of Ellis’ output. Used as…

Batman: Gotham County Line

(DC/Titan)

(3 stars)19 Dec 2006

Location. Location. Location. Or how to bring a neat twist to Batman by sending him to the ‘burbs. Asked to investigate a spate of mysterious killings in Gotham City’s suburbs by a retired Commissioner Gordon, the story shifts from Manhunter-esque…

Junko Mizuno - comic review

Junko Mizuno

(4 stars)19 Dec 2006

MANGA/SCI-FI This is the debut graphic novel from Japanese illustrator Junko Mizuno, best known for her garish hyper cute art with twisted dark edges, as wide-eyed, sexy Japanese girls are wrapped in the trappings of fetishism, drugs and death (the…

Broons 1939 Annual, The

The Broons 1939 Annual

11 Dec 2006

COMIC ANNUAL Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without a Broons Annual under the tree and this reproduction of the very first annual from 1939 finds Dundee’s favourite family getting caught in the same situations they have been re-living over and…

Oor Wullie Annual 2007

(DC Thompson)

11 Dec 2006

COMIC ANNUAL ‘Wullie and his pals still look nifty, They still live in 1950’ As a nation, we Scots take great pride in the technological achievements of our forebears: John Logie Baird, inventor of the TV, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of…

Beano Annual 2007

(DC Thompson)

11 Dec 2006

COMIC ANNUAL It’s pretty much business as usual in Beano-land, you’ll be glad to hear: we open at the ‘Softies Fashion and Fabric Show’ where Walter and a couple of equally flamboyant chums vie for the lead in The Naked Civil Servant. Inside…

Comic - Jim Krueger, Alex Ross & Doug Braithwaite

Justice (DC/Titan)

(4 stars)22 Nov 2006

SUPERHERO The creators of Earth, Universe and Paradise X reunite (with Braithwaite providing pencil base for Ross’ glorious painted panels) for another heavily religious, wholly apocalyptic adventure involving DC’s greatest heroes and villains. This…

Comic - Brian K Vaugh & Niko Henrichon

Brian K Vaugh & Niko Henrichon

(2 stars)22 Nov 2006

WAR Taking inspiration from the real fate of the animals at Baghdad Zoo during the recent US invasion (sorry ‘liberation’) of Iraq, a pride of lions escape after a round of bombing destroys much of the zoo. They set off across the man-made wasteland…

Geoff Johns & Phil Jimenez

Infinite Crisis (DC)

(4 stars)11 Nov 2006

SUPERHERO Finally we get to the meat in the seemingly endless build up to DC’s earth shattering Infinite Crisis mega crossover. Comic fans will know that every now and then (usually once a summer) some huge calamity will threaten the universe our…

Greg Rucka, Marl Verheiden, Gail Simone & Various

Superman: Sacrifice (DC)

(3 stars)11 Nov 2006

SUPERHERO Yet another chapter in DC’s gargantuan Infinite Crisis, this one at least lends a little character work to the usual monolithic superhero dust-ups that usually infest such crossovers. We start off with Superman undergoing a crisis of…

Gail Simone, Dale Eaglesham & Val Semeiks

Villains United (DC)

(2 stars)11 Nov 2006

SUPERHERO Seemingly an excuse to reel out every other car boot sale bad guy that the archives of DC forgot. A bunch of vaguely uninspiring villains are banded together as the Secret Six by a mysterious power to challenge Lex Luthor’s Society, an army…

Power Girl

Geoff Johns, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti (DC)

(3 stars)11 Nov 2006

SUPERHERO Power Girl lies at the crux of the events and concepts that Infinite Crisis deals with. The character has been retconned more than most, her origins obscured within various parallel universes. This compilation looks back through the years…

Joe Sacco

But I Like it (Fantagraphics)

(4 stars)10 Oct 2006

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/COLLECTION Containing some of the same material as previous Sacco collection Notes from a Defeatist, this new selection is a more focused attempt to archive and give order to the reams of material he amassed as a music mad young man who…

Nabiel Kanan

The Drowners (Image)

(4 stars)10 Oct 2006

CRIME The US has the crime comic market sewn up with titles such as Stray Bullets and 100 Bullets. But this London-set, noir-styled murder mystery draws fine comparison with its Transatlantic cousins. UK writer-artist Nabiel Kanan’s fourth graphic…

Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba

De: TALES (Dark Horse)

(3 stars)2 Oct 2006

URBAN MYSTICISM Moon and Bá are Brazil’s answer to Los Bros Hernadnez. Like the Mexican creators of Love & Rockets this pair of young writer-artists are siblings (twins in fact), and like Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez’s comics, Moon and Bá’s strips mix…

John Ostrander & Various

Star Wars: Honour & Duty (Dark Horse)

(2 stars)28 Sep 2006

SCI-FI Given the epic scale of the Star Wars universe, George Lucas has afforded comic book writers an almost endless stream of possibilities for potential spin off publications. The downside to this is, to remain faithful and true to the films, and…

Jamie Delano & David Lloyd

The Territory (Dark Horse)

(3 stars)28 Sep 2006

DARK SCI-FI Repackaged as a hardback on the back of V for Vendetta and the forthcoming Kickback, this flight of fantasy (originally published as a four-part series in 1999) was artist David Lloyd’s first collaboration with writer Jamie Delano since…

Paul Jenkins & Paolo Rivera

Mythos: Hulk (Marvel)

(3 stars)28 Sep 2006

SUPERHERO The second in Paul Jenkins’ irregular Mythos series, which retells key events in the history of Marvel’s greatest creations. Here The Hulk gets the revamp treatment, going back to that initial gamma explosion that turned Bruce Banner into…

Brendan McCarthy - Solo (comic)

Brendan McCarthy

(4 stars)18 Sep 2006

COMICS As a child brought up on the surreal and sometimes vicious images of British artist Brendan McCarthy, it’s a pleasure to report I don’t feel nearly as damaged as I should. Once a regular on 2000AD - where he forged an ahead-of-its-time…

Mike Mignola & Cary Nord

Conan No 31 (Dark Horse)

(3 stars)1 Sep 2006

FANTASY There was a time when artist Mike Mignola wasn’t very sure of his own writing skills. In the early days of Hellboy he handed John Byrne a plot to be fleshed out fully by the far more established writer. Now Mignola feels confident enough to…

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