The Woman in the Purple Skirt sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. When she doesn’t, she has a daily routine where she sits on a park bench and eats a snack. But whether she’s working or not, there’s always someone watching her. And, even though she doesn’t know they exist (yet), that someone really wants to be her friend…
A rogue Amazon kills some dudes in an American bar causing Congress to pass a law calling for the expulsion of all Amazons from ‘murica, or something. But Wonder Woman doesn’t want to go - which makes her an Outlaw. Idiotic fighting ensues while an absurd villain cackles in the background in this abysmally stupid book.
Joe Matt died last year at the relatively young age of 60. Peepshow #15 is his last comic, published posthumously and completed with the help of his friend and fellow cartoonist Chester Brown, who inked the last four pages.
If Jack Kirby isn’t the patron saint of comics, he’s definitely up there in the pantheon of comics gods. So, as a lifelong comics reader, I felt it important that I at least read one book by “King” Kirby - and I also brung along some suckers friends to join in! Yay, we’re headed back to the Silver Age…I thought titling the buddy read after Curb was just a silly fun pun but my enthusiasm was unfortunately curbed early on into this one!
Kozakura is getting on great with her tuxedo kitten Musubi - so great that she decides to mix it up by getting another kitten! Enter: Soboro. The most cute kitten ever. A munchkin cat (the breed has stubby legs which only makes her cuter) - how will Musubi react to another kitten in the house?
We’re all of us different people at different times of our lives - and yet the same person. Like the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim, who is alternately: a prisoner of war in the closing stages of WW2; a successful optometrist in later life; a self-admitted mental patient in a veteran’s hospital; a philandering husband; a distant father; an exhibit in an alien zoo; a little boy failing to swim.
Frank and April Wheeler are married with kids, living in suburbia, on idyllic Revolutionary Road. They have drinks with the neighbours, Frank works in the city, April keeps house - but both are unsatisfied. They plan to start a new life in Paris. Yes, that’ll definitely happen…
Richard and Juliette potter around their remote country house of Starve Acre, mourning the death of their young son, Ewan. But how did Ewan die - and can the mysterious Mrs Forde and the Beacons help them move on?
