Terminus – a weekly comic strip
September 30th, 2009
Have you done a poo? No, it’s the Tuesday review
September 30th, 2009
Rogue’s review: Nick O’Teen
September 28th, 2009
While flicking through the pages of Batman Year One in an effort to research my Batcave essay I paused, as I am want to do, on the pages where Bruce Wayne ventures into Gotham’s red light district. I feel now, as I have long felt, that I know those city streets: The neon gloom, the amphetamine air, the gaze of eyes it’s better not to catch. Coincidentally I’d recently listened to a show on Radio 4, presented by Suggs, on the history of London’s Soho and had been taken back to the early 80s and my visits to my Mother’s office, a television production company that specialised in music videos, that nestled on the edge of London’s red light district. I dreaded the inevitable few minutes spent under the glare of an arcade or sex shop waiting for a taxi or one of my Mum’s friends while the shadows of an adult world fell around me. Even behind the office walls I didn’t feel safe. Sometimes I overheard secretaries whispering about their sex lives thinking they were out of earshot or that the kid wouldn’t understand (I didn’t, but not in the way they thought). Then there were the alien artifacts that littered the rooms and staircases, the posters of rock concerts and the modern artworks that throbbed with a strange potential energy. But worst of all were the giggling men, who once or twice or perhaps more I can’t remember, offered me cocaine and cigarettes.
The Amusing Brothers, Andrew and Steven.
September 26th, 2009
A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin
The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.
Aggravastard Aggrebastard
September 24th, 2009
Terminus – a weekly comic strip
September 23rd, 2009
Two reviews on Tues
September 22nd, 2009
Before the sun sets on the comics week.
Batman and Robin #4
Published by DC Comics
Story – Grant Morrison
Art – Philip Tan, Jonathan Glapion
This was always going to be a let down from where I’m sitting. Batman and Robin under the pen of Quitely was without a doubt my favourite Superhero comic of the year, and very possibly my favourite superhero comic since the last time those two collaborated. Scratch that, truth be told I preferred those three issues to All Star Superman, because not only were Morrison and Quitely producing fabulous work, they were producing fabulous work on a Batman comic, and I do so love a bit of Batman. So, yes, I always knew this was going to be a letdown and that I would have to struggle to give it a fair hearing.
Gary Lactus’ Vault of Tymbus#12
September 21st, 2009
Wowzers! We sure had a lot to talk about last time I visited Tymbus in my vault. I’ve decided to give it to you in seven handy-dandy sections in the vain hope that it might make the whole experience less tedious.
vault-of-tymbus-12-1 (Fantastic Four # 570)
vault-of-tymbus-12-02 (Archie Comics # 600)
vault-of-tymbus-12-03 (Jack Kirby’s Captain Victory)
vault-of-tymbus-12-05 (Asterios Polyp)
vault-of-tymbus-12-06 (Blackest Night)
vault-of-tymbus-12-07 (2000AD # 1650)
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The Amusing Brothers, Andrew and Steven.
September 19th, 2009
A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin
The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.
Aggrieveator!
September 18th, 2009
- Hooray, David Uzumeri is back on the Batrob annotations horse. Oh, look, he’s even done some for issue 4! As I said over in the FBB comments, his thoughts perfectly complement ours in that he goes in for much more solid, sensible speculation and fact based approach than we do. Oh, and you should read the comments section – my new favourite fan theory lurks in those depths. (z)
- Wow, it’s a strange thing indeed to disagree with Jog quite so strongly! I normally nod along to his reviews, sometimes cracking a smile at the odd epiphany. Not this time. This time I found myself wondering whether we were reading the same comic (Batrob issue 3). The very idea that Quitely’s action scenes were occasionally difficult to parse, or that they were too slow? Crazy times. Quitely manages the almost impossible feat of making feel movement within (and less extraordinarily between) frames. I can probably count the other artists working within the genre that can do that on maybe three fingers. (z)
- If you didn’t already know, recorded music is over. Bill Drummond tells it like it is, and even if his diagnosis doesn’t prompt you to start you own choir of wailing neanderthals, the musical history he relates, the mirror he holds up to modern consumer culture and the questions it all raises are very interesting and meaty indeed. This podcast will only take up 25 mins of your time – do listen to it. (amy)
- Incredibly, even though I read comics, I really like art, design, photography, etc, so from now on, with each aggregator, I’m going to include links to somewhere you can find some pretty pictures, esp image blogs. Sure, they’re just freeze-frames from DVDs, but think of it as found art. Anyway, you can never go wrong with anything remotely goatmendes-like. (amy)
- And finally from me, if you haven’t already heard it you must check out this Brian Eno interview conducted by Alan Moore. Two of the most interesting guys on the planet having a nice chat. Brilliant. And it’s bit like comics because I gather Mr. Moore has written a comic called Spawn in the past. In the eighties or something. There was a smiley face I think. (amy)
