Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank

27 Nov 2008

CRIME There couldn’t be a better marriage of writer and character than Irish bad boy Garth Ennis and lone vigilante Frank Castle, teaming up with regular artistic partner Steve Dillon for an often irreverent but always brutal and bloody reboot. This…

Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine - Dan Dare

2 Oct 2008

SCI-FI ADVENTURE Following cold on the heels of Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes’ controversial, and some might say ugly, early 90s update of Britain’s noblest comics hero, this seven-part revival from Richard Branson’s comics line, now repackaged in…

Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson - The Boys II

8 May 2008

SUPERHERO SATIRE (Titan) Some 20 years ago Alan Moore asked the question: ‘Who watches The Watchmen?’ Garth Ennis answers the question with this anarchic superhero satire about a gang of super-powered, CIA-backed thugs who police – with extreme…

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson - The Boys

Superhero

4 Oct 2007

Garth Ennis, the bad boy British writer responsible for the controversial series’ Preacher and Transmetropolitan, puts the boot into the iconoclastic superhero strip sub-genre. The first six issues, collected here, introduce the titular CIA-backed…

Dan Dare takes to the skies again

28 Aug 2007

Comic book hero Dan Dare is to be resurrected for a new series of adventures published by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Comics. Created by illustrator Frank Hampson, the British sci-fi hero was hugely popular in the 50s and 60s as part the…

Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson

The Boys No.1 (Wildstorm)

1 Sep 2006

ADULT SUPERHERO When you see Garth Preacher Ennis’ name at the top of a front cover, you pretty much know what to expect. While this latest series of his is set in a world of superheroes and villains, it’s not all men in tights battling to uphold the…