Kieron Gillen‘s work is always worth your time, endlessly clever, effortlessly humane and fizzing with precision tooled joy. This panel, from the fourth issue of his run on Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, is not just a beautiful subversion of ‘comics about comics’ but also a multi-level guest appearance, words to live by and? This week’s Moment …
Build giant robots! PUNCH MONSTERS IN THE FACE! MOMENT OF ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
The incomparable Matt Wallace‘s triumphant YouTube community building writer series returns! Go, watch, be inspired and discover YouTube can be used as a force for good!
And I cannot die. God, I love Community so much. Happy Sunday, everybody. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHs8TW0AB0&w=560&h=315]
Every now and then the tumblers all click into place. Walking home on Friday, the knot of the day’s horrific debate slowly unwinding, I took this photo as music I’d never heard before flooded my headphones. Then I checked the title of the track and was reminded that serendipity has a very odd, very good …
All of it. Every single issue of this three issue, gloriously odd, gloriously normal series about music, magic and everything in between. Ostensibly about phonomancer David Kohl it’s the story of British music, British magic and the people who orbit both. It’s funny and tragic, dark and ridiculous. It’s everything you’ve ever felt listening music and …
No play fills me with more joy than Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Very few films do either. The movie version, directed by Tom Stoppard from his own play, is a glorious cacophony of slightly lumpy pacing and wonderful, chewy language. Richard Dreyfus’ Player King is note perfect and the way the play shifts gear …
Click to embiggen Another one from Secret Avengers. She’s right too. This is your Sunday Moment of Zen. UK local comic shops are all detailed here The global store list is here The Comixology link for the series is here The Amazon link for Warren Ellis, the author, is here
Secret Avengers was one of those interesting books that rose up in the massive success of the first Avengers movie. The idea was essentially an Avengers covert strike team and a wide variety of creators did some really interesting stuff with the murky morality of that idea. Warren Ellis was one of those creators. He …