J. Michael Straczynski/Oliver Coipel Thor A while back, I caught a preview of the new series of Thor, where the God of Thunder had a few words with Iron Man over certain actions taken during Marvel’s Civil War series. I never saw the conclusion, so when I spotted this collection of the first six issues [...]
Denise Mina / Leonardo Manco Hellblaser: The Red Right Hand Another solid Constantine story, by yet another artist/writer combination. Constantine’s characterisation seems a bit off, with him being rather more of a whiney bugger than I remember him, but that is perhaps due to the nature of the problem at hand – an empathy plague [...]
Some more books, courtesy of Bellshill library. Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson Fury: Peacemaker This is Garth Ennis doing what he loves best – comics that aren’t about superheroes. And he gets to use the S.A.S., too, which also appears to be something he enjoys. This is an adventure for the iconic Sergeant Fury, before [...]
I’ve been forcibly unemployed for a while now, and as a consequence really, really bored. However, one of the things I’ve been doing is getting books out of the library and reading them, and it occurred to me that I could usefully alleviate some of the tedium by noting them as I go, and making [...]