I reread Desolation Jones: Made in England this week. It’s a collection of the first six issue story in what was intended to be a two year or so comic book written by Warren Ellis with a rotating cast of artists. As often happens, life got in the way and the book finished after issue …
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 …
This is far more of a reading list than the last one. Most of the books here were covered in the panel but a couple didn’t come up and have occurred to me since. One note before we dive in; included here are Amazon and, where possible, Comixology links. Please, if you have a local …
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 …
Well the first thing I did was realize I need to keep better track of the stuff I’m doing. And then I cleaned up some admin left over from last year, and I signed with an employment agency and cooked lots of things, but that last one we’ve already covered. So, let’s take a look …
Stage one of the first project is complete. I’ve now revised every one of the 52 endcaps from 2012. A lot have been massively expanded, some more have had the usual boilerplate of an endcap stripped away so they can stand alone and a few have been completely rebuilt. They’re not done, not yet, there’ll …