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Saturday, 26 July 2025
Wolverine: Revenge Review (Jonathan Hickman, Greg Capullo)
Magneto dies (again) creating an apocalyptic electro-magnetic pulse that wipes out all power on Earth, killing millions. With the remaining Brotherhood of Evil Mutants controlling the planet’s final reactor, Nick Fury rallies the surviving Avengers for a last ditch heist to secure it - and fails. With everyone dead at the hands of the Brotherhood, it’s down to Wolverine… to get Revenge!
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Brian by Jeremy Cooper Review
Brian is a quiet civil servant who slowly becomes a regular patron of the British Film Institute (BFI) and a part of the small community of film buffs who congregate every night at the South Bank to watch that night’s programming.
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 1: Mercy of the Father Review (Tom Taylor, Mikel Janin)
Someone’s targeting young offenders straight outta juvie - their corpses found drained of blood! Batman’s gotta solve the case, etc.
Fresh from his success reinvigorating Nightwing, Tom Taylor’s taken over the iconic Detective Comics title for a run that starts underwhelmingly with Mercy of the Father.
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz Review
If you’ve read Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland novels, you’ll know the drill by now and if you haven’t they’re about a book editor who keeps finding herself embroiled in murder mysteries that have an uncanny resemblance to an Agatha Christie-ish mystery that runs parallel to her own.
Saturday, 5 July 2025
James Bond: 007: Your Cold, Cold Heart Review (Garth Ennis, Rapha Lobosco)
The Ruskies have nicked weaponised water - “stalvoda”, literally “steel water”, which instantly freezes after exploding - from the Brits, who originally nicked it from the Ruskies during the Soviet era. Bond’s gotta - sigh - nick it back. International espionage, eh?
Friday, 4 July 2025
Muybridge by Guy Delisle Review
Apparently one of the great scientific mysteries of the 19th century was how exactly a horse moves at a gallop(!) with the keenest scientific minds insisting that they run like a frog jumps. It would take the fortune of the richest man in America, Leland Stanford, and the ingenuity of a British photographer whose parents didn’t know how to spell “Edward”, Eadweard Muybridge, to prove otherwise. All that and more in Guy Delisle’s latest book, a comics bio of weird Ed Muybridge!
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Strange Pictures by Uketsu Review
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Spider-Man: Reign 2 by Kaare Andrews Review
It’s the future so the Matrix is real and Peter Parker’s stuck in there because. Where’s MJ? Well, the sensible thing to do is time-travel with a mini Black Cat and actual goblins(!?) to fight Venom as MJ to not prevent the dystopian future that an Akira’d out Kingpin will enact for some reason. Time to get your dumbrellas out everyone - we’re heading back into Kaare Andrews’ Reign!
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Jenny Sparks Review (Tom King, Jeff Spokes)
There was a Justice League piss-take team called The Authority at the end of the ‘90s created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch. Both The Authority and Ellis have been cancelled, in different meanings of the word, since then (Hitch is still knocking around) and one of the founding members of that team was Jenny Sparks, the Spirit of the 20th Century.
Monday, 23 June 2025
G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Cobra Strikes! Review (Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly)
GI Joe, a toy that became a cartoon and a comic and is now a newer comic aimed at the same audience from back in the ‘80s except they’re old men now getting nostalgic for garbage that was never good - yo poo!
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Sailing to Byzantium by W. B. Yeats Review
I forget why but I came across William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming recently and was quite taken with it. I’d never read it before but recognised several lines and was surprised they all came from this short poem. Here’s some you too might know:
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre… Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; … The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Attila by Javier Serena Review
Aliocha Coll was a 20th century Spanish writer who produced experimental books, of which few were published and those that did failed to connect with a large audience - hence his name being practically unknown today.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Marvel Knights: The World To Come #1 Review (Christopher Priest, Joe Quesada)
If you unfortunately pay attention to the digital slurry that is online discourse then you may have noticed in the past week memes about how “Black Panther is WHITE!” with a fake image of Ryan Gosling’s increasingly-botoxed face (don’t do it Ryan, age naturally!) on the MCU’s Black Panther.
Monday, 9 June 2025
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Review
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes is a mid-16th century Spanish novella written by… nobody knows! And it’s about the title character narrating his rather rough yet sorta comedic early life as the downtrodden servant to a series of scumbag masters: a blind man who pretends to be a holy man, a priest who is even more stingy and cruel than the blind man, a sham nobleman who’s as poor as Lazaro, and another conman who sells papal indulgences.
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