Today – well, yesterday, as it’s well after Midnight – was Hourly Comic Day, and I had a go. The idea is to do a comic for each waking hour of the day, documenting that hour. Didn’t manage it entirely, as I was running a Dark Champions game at Livingston. Turns out you can’t GM [...]
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 raging [...]
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 he got [...]
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 [...]
Two ends of the Batman spectrum jammed together. Images from the campest Adam West TV show version, with captions from Frank Miller’s Grim’n’Gritty [TM] version. How could it go wrong?
This will only be of interest to those who follow comics, I’m afraid.
Ever since Tony Stark brought out his clone of Thor, and got him to kill Goliath during Marvel Comics’ Civil War, I’ve been waiting for Thor return and, well, pretty much say this. Looking forward to Iron Man getting his [...]