The War Review (Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan)

A group of young New Yorkers sit around discussing the Ukrainian war - it would never escalate to all-out nuclear warfare, right?

BRZRKR, Volume 3 Review (Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt)

Keanu’s back from space or somewhere and talking psychically with a doctor who shoots ink from her eyes. Why? Cos he wants to grow a giant red metal bird from his chest. I know, THAT old chestnut again! Let’s get stoopid one last time with John Thicko, Kindter Surprise and Garney the Dinosaur in RTRDD, Volume 3.

BRZRKR, Volume 2 Review (Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt)

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I'm Still Alive Review (Roberto Saviano, Asaf Hanuka)

Roberto Saviano’s book, Gomorrah, about the warring Camorra clans in Naples, was published in 2006. Due to the enormous success of the book and Saviano publicly insulting the head of the Casalesi crime family, he has had to live under police protection for the last 16 years. Together with Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka, Saviano’s first comic, I’m Still Alive, explores his feelings on his situation as well as relating anecdotes and showing the realities of his way of life.

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr Review (Ram V, Filipe Andrade)

Death is fired after being told a boy called Darius has been born who will grow up to unlock the secret for humans to live forever - no more death, no more Death. Corporate downsizing for the non-corporeal! Until Death is also made mortal, filling the body of a recently-deceased young lady called Laila Starr. Now stuck on Earth with the rest of us schmucks, Death/Laila hatches a plan to get her job back: kill Darius…

The Unsound Review (Cullen Bunn, Jack T. Cole)

It’s Ashli’s first day as a nurse at Saint Cascia, a mental health clinic in a poor part of the city - and it might be her last. Following a riot by the patients, Ashli and the rest of the staff must escape the increasingly surreal labyrinth of the hospital by putting their trust in the mysterious patient with a paper plate mask - who somehow seems to know Ashli quite well…

Proctor Valley Road Review (Grant Morrison, Alex Child)

It’s the summer of 1970 in Southern California and four friends need money to get tickets for the upcoming Janis Joplin concert. Luckily, there happens to be a haunted stretch of highway on Proctor Valley Road that they decide to make money off of by offering paid tours of the area to rubes. But, oh no, the ghosties is real - and lotsa people gonna die!

Seven Secrets, Volume 2 Review (Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo)

It’s all change in the leadership of both the Keepers and the Seekers, revelations fly about various characters, a deadly secret exposed leads to the annihilation of Switzerland, and there’s a traitor in the Keepers’ ranks - but who is it? Also, discover Caspar’s cosmic origins and Canto’s sad backstory, all in Seven Secrets, Volume 2!

BRZRKR, Volume 1 Review (Keanu Reeves, Ron Garney)

Keanu Reeves plays a character so tough he killed all the vowels in his book’s title! Want to read a comic that rips out the spine of good taste and murderizes subtlety with it before dancing in the blood of restraint? Disappointed that no comic out there caters to the FBI watch list crowd for deranged psychopaths? Worry not, my soon-to-be-suicided-by-cop friend - BRZRKR is here for YOU!

Once & Future, Volume 3: The Parliament of Magpies Review (Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora)

Duncan, Rose and Granny Bridgette face more nightmarishly warped Arthurian legends - it’s the Green Knight, Lancelot and Galahad’s turns - as Merlin continues his plan to take the Grail and return Arthur to the throne of England… with bloody consequences!

Once and Future, Volume 2: Old English Review (Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora)

While Skeletor King Arthur experiments on super-sizing his knights in Castle Gray-Camelot, Crypt Keeper Merlin’s a-schemin’ - but he needs something to distract those pesky meddlers, Duncan and his gran Bridgette. Time to bring another ye olde English myth to life - this time: Beowulf, Grendel and Grendel’s muvver!

We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Book One: The Seeker Review (Al Ewing, Simone Di Meo)

Small butcher-spacecraft carve up the corpses of dead gods floating in space. But then one of these small butcher-spacecrafts decides to “go rogue” and see a live god. Which is against the rules for some reason so a space cop chases after them.

Seven Secrets, Volume 1 Review (Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo)

The Order of the Seven has always protected the Seven Secrets with one Keeper and one Holder assigned to each secret, enshrined in a suitcase, and kept far apart from each other across the planet. Except now the secrets are being targeted by deadly enemies - and the fate of the world is in danger! New Holder, Caspar, joins the others in keeping the secrets safe - but for how long?

Wicked Things Review (John Allison, Max Sarin)

Some spoilsies ahead!

When life gives you lemons, god opens a window - or however that thing goes. Because, while my beloved Giant Days ended, John Allison and Max Sarin started a new series set in the same world: Wicked Things. Hurrah! … right? Disappointingly, no - Wicked Things turned out to be a boring mess.

Strange Skies Over East Berlin Review (Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren)

Berlin, 1973 - a city divided by a wall thanks to the Cold War. An alien probe crash lands in Soviet territory so an American spy heads over to check it out. He find alien. Alien bad. Zzz...

Something is Killing the Children, Volume 1 Review (James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera)

Something is Killing the Children is both the title and the plot summary of this awful comic to which I would append: - And It’s Not Worth Reading Any Further!

Once & Future, Volume 1 Review (Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora)

Egads - it’s been so long since I read a half-decent Kieron Gillen comic I’d given up hope that he’d ever produce another one again! But thankfully he has with the best artist working at Boom at the moment, Dan Mora - this is Once & Future, Volume 1: The King is Undead.

Giant Days, Volume 14 Review (John Allison, Max Sarin)

“I think what makes it good is that it doesn’t last. The best things are rare.” - Esther de Groot

Be strong (lip trembles) - deep breath.

Giant Days...

is...

over.

Giant Days, Volume 13 Review (John Allison, Max Sarin)

“Predictable” is usually a negative for most books but Giant Days is definitely not most books and it’s predictable in the best possible way: it’s always superb. So it goes with lucky volume 13!

Giant Days, Volume 12 Review (John Allison, Max Sarin)

Ed and Neen have their first fight, Daisy takes a driving test and will Ess have a fling with - gasp! - Dean Thompson?! Also Su-Pto dons the proverbial deerstalker (and Esther’s goth scarf) to hunt down the comics shop thief before returning to the fearsome Northampton for the nuptials of McGraw’s pranktacular bro Frank and a member of the hated Shaw clan. It’s all to play for in Giant Days, Volume the 12th!