Category: Comics
UFO Comic Anthology Volume One (book review).
I’ve been waiting for a long time to see the ‘UFO’ cartoon strips from the 1971 ‘Countdown’ comic again. As is pointed out in the introduction, unlike Century 21’s other TV series, ‘UFO’ wasn’t shown simultaneously across the country. For me, Westward TV had it a year before HTV which was one of the last […]
Joe Madureira’s X-Men: a comic-book retrospective (video).
Bryan Lee O’Malley sits down with Ed and Jim to investigate Joe Madureira’s tenure on the X-Men comic-book series. In 1994, Madureira took over as the regular penciler on Uncanny X-Men. During the “Age of Apocalypse” storyline, all X-Men titles were renamed, and Madureira illustrated the four-issue miniseries Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1 to replace Uncanny […]
Our Artists At War by Richard J. Arndt and Steven Fears (book review).
I never really followed the American war comics. Age and lack of appeal compared to super-heroes never struck me, although I did read the British version from time to time but I was a compulsive reader. Authors Richard J. Arndt and Steven Fears in this book, ‘Our Artists At War’, point out that the creators […]
Dave Gibbons on the Watchmen (video).
Dave Gibbons, the artist on the classic Watchmen comic-book series, dials in to walk our noble duo Ed and Jim through some of the background and processes behind this masterpiece of sequential art.
Harley Quinn: Welcome To Metropolis by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Craig Rousseu and Brandon Badeaux (graphic novel review).
The third volume, ‘Harley Quinn: Welcome To Metropolis’, reprinting the 2002 Harley Quinn # 14-25 stories does at least explain that it was the real Harley Quinn with Jimmy Olsen in the last story of the second volume. When Harley and Poison Ivy motorcycle to Metropolis to get away from the heat they were getting […]
Harley Quinn: Night And Day by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson and Pete Woods (graphic novel).
This second volume, ‘Harley Quinn: Night And Day’ by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson and Pete Woods, covers the 2001 version in Harley Quinn # 8-13. The result of Harley being pursued by employees of Jack Hapi has given the idea to Gotham’s underworld that she has a price on her head and are determined to […]
Harley Quinn: Preludes And Knock-Knock Jokes by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson (graphic novel review).
After the recent reading of Terry Dodson’s interview in Comic Book Creator # 26, I decided I ought to look at some of his work which was run in the Harley Quinn comicbook from 2000-2001 reprinted in 2007, the first seven issues in ‘Harley Quinn: Preludes And Knock-Knock Jokes’. They were spread over three graphic […]
The History Of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure by Xavier Dollo and Djibril Morissette-Phan (graphic novel review).
I have to confess that when I was offered this book, ‘The History Of Science Fiction’, I was paying more attention to the title than its sub-title, ‘A Graphic Novel Adventure’. Getting it, it was more like in for a penny, in for a pound and I am supposed to know something about the history […]
Interview: Scott Montgomery on the forthcoming 2000AD Encyclopedia (video).
The 2000AD Encyclopedia will be released in February 2022, just in time for the 45th anniversary of the UK comic 2000AD. From Aaron A. Aardvark to Zombo, it will be a huge tome representing chapter and verse on four and a half decades of the galaxy’s – well, the UK’s – best comic. Molch-R speaks […]
Cutting Edge by Francesco Dimitrii and Mario Alberti (graphic novel review).
‘Cutting Edge’ is a graphic novel available in both hardback and eBook formats. What happens when a ruthless rich corporation sets teams of super-smart people in competition against each other to obtain certain items of value? That’s the question posed by ‘Cutting Edge’, a graphic novel written by Francesco Dimitri, translated into English by Marc […]
