Category Archives: Graphica and Art
The end of a Century’s story: A review of Century 2009
League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century 2009 brings Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Century to an end, in true comics style, but blowing up the universe. Looking at recent runs, when a writer comes to the end of their turn in … Continue reading
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Revisiting old friends with Bill Willingham’s Bad Doings and Big Ideas
I’ve been reading Bill Willingham‘s Bad Doings and Big Ideas which collects his non-Fables Vertigo books in one. I have a fair few of these books but it is always good to have one place to go for a good … Continue reading
Wings in the snow – Rebecca Guay’s A Flight of Angels
I recently came across A Flight of Angels created by Rebecca Guay. It is a club story which explores and shows differing sides to the angelic host, quite apart from just being messengers. It seems to follow in the wake … Continue reading
Leaving the House of Mystery
Matthew Sturges‘s run on House of Mystery has come to a sad end after 42 issues, although perhaps this was not an entire suprise. I have to say that at times the series has felt slightly loose but seems to … Continue reading
At the end of Greek Street
The wonderful Greek Street has come to an end after 16 issues with a bang. Milligan has done a cracking job on updating the Greek tragedies and getting to their hearts. I’ve read some of the classics at school and … Continue reading
A season of Buffy and mellowness
I’ve just read the finale of the Buffy Season 8 comic which Dark Horse have been publishing. I’ve got to admit that it did bring me back into the Buffy universe (to the point of re-watching the Season 2 DVD … Continue reading
Hush, listen the beating heart
Yesterday I tweeted “currently wondering how many more times batman can have a double: hush, cacophony (of silence) and joker.” That was just before I read Paul Dini‘s Batman: Heart of Hush (which I picked up from the “sadly defunct … Continue reading
Unmaking the Unwritten
Mike Carey and Peter Gross‘s latest installment of The Unwritten (issue 11) muses intriguingly on propaganda and the way that stories can be turned into very different things from the author’s intention. In Issue 10, Tommy Taylor (it would easy … Continue reading
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Pictorial cultures – a day at IBBY
I went, partially, out of curiosity to the IBBY conference at Roehampton at yesterday which was themed around Graphic Novels and comics. I find it slightly odd going to these events as I’m not a professional scholar/researcher nor do I work … Continue reading
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Mysterious Houses – Dark Entries by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries is a locked room crime novel with a haunted house twist. Or is that a haunted house novel with a crime twist. Whatever, it is good. One of the first publications in the Vertigo Crime list … Continue reading