THE SHINING was long my favourite novel of all time. I loved it from first touch and it reigned supreme for over a decade. It never quite stepped down, it just had something step above it, so the quality has actually held on and I don’t see it ever dropping. The tale of Danny Torrence [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by ryan
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A package was sent to my house this week. This was my wife’s response. The package was addressed to our son. It’s his first birthday in a few days, it makes sense he’d be getting something in the mail. The sender’s name was my wife’s name, or so it would appear. Upon seeing what she [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by ryan
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I’m a pretty big Frank Miller fan. His Daredevil work is golden and I’ve dug all three generations of his Batman work (as I think of them). He’s a master class kind of guy but this latest book, which stemmed from Batman V Al-Queda and become its own beast, just didn’t satisfy on all basic [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2011 by ryan
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This wasn’t the most successful book fair ever. There were no Philip K Dick paperbacks at all. The comic section was anaemic. But this didn’t stop me scoring some good fun stuff. I’m a big fan of Jeff Parker and have often heard of Mysterious The Unfathomable but never been able to track it down. [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by ryan
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Daredevil has relaunched and in doing so he’s been exposed to a whole new audience. I know plenty of people who have picked up this book because of the new #1 and they’ve been loving it. Mark Waid’s run is certainly good, it might be too early to say it’s better that Brubaker’s run, but [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by ryan
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Why is it that The Boys varies in quality up and down so much? It’s minis have generally been dire but this one has been good. And this issue, it’s been great. This issue looks at Butcher and his original love. It’s a damn good comic. Hit the link to believe it. Butcher, Baker, Candlestick [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by ryan
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The choice was cast, we were scripting Spider-Island, which is a Spider-Man event currently running from the pen of Dan Slott. It’s a tale where half of Manhattan is given spider-powers due to genetically altered bed bugs (I know, comics, right?). Within hours I had my script completely in my head. It was just one [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by ryan
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Uncanny X-Force continues to vacillate between really good and really bloody great. This week is really bloody great. This entire run from Remender and co continues to build a massive tale that’s going to collect brilliant in an oversized HC at some stage but it also reads well in the monthly format, too. To know [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2011 by ryan
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This is a comic where I got to the end and wasn’t sure what I thought – I even worried I might not have liked it. It seems the conclusion required some thought before I had my mind made up. Turns out, this was pretty damn good. It’s a twist on some noir tropes that [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2011 by ryan
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American Vampire is one of those comics that ranges from great to brilliant. This is one of those issues that sits in the middle of the arc and does its job, and does it perfectly. There’s action, character moments, gorgeous art, and one hell of an ending. Most of all, there’s an idea that permeates [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by ryan
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