New Comics Day! The weekly injection of new pop cultural experimentation and fun into the zeitgeist’s bloodstream! Or something! Either way here are some of the comics I’ve read, reviewed and enjoyed in the last week over at Travelling Man’s blog. A-Force and Secret Wars prove that this Summer’s big Marvel crossover is genuinely fun and different. We …
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye is an extraordinary comic. It takes what, at its core, started out as a means of selling a toy line and turns it into an incredibly nuanced, compassionate, funny story about what happens when the war you’ve spent your life fighting stops. Following The Lost Light, a ship crewed …
Okay there was clearly sleeping and eating and Christmas, and visiting my parents (Which was lovely) and having a cold (Which was less lovely) but NONE.THE.LESS. this is what I did in December and the people I did it for. -Blogbusters only made one appearance this month, but it was a doozy, looking at …
I remember, years ago, traveling to a friend’s wedding to serve as an usher. We arrived the night before and stayed over and, this being the early ’90s in the UK on a Friday night, I of course ended up watching Top of the Pops. For the uninitiated, Top of the Pops was one of …
Title Fight: Heart, Joe Palooka and the Rebirth of Sport Comics