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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 3
Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2
Garth Ennis dials the gross out meter up to 11 in Volume Five: Herogasm, in which we discover exactly what goes on in those superhero crossovers which have plagued comics for decades. In this case, Earth’s greatest heroes ostensibly depart for a war with the fictitious alien Maith’rai, while … read more
Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2
Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1
So far The Boys has been a mixed bag of superhero conspiracy theory, toilet humour and extreme ultraviolence. With Volume Three: Good for the Soul, Ennis takes a breather, letting The Legend fill Hughie in on the Ennis’s intricate back-story. This couldn’t have come sooner, and lends a genuinely … read more
Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1
Welcome to Comic Book Cramathon, the first (and hopefully not the last) in a series I’ll be sporadically running. The basic challenge I’m setting for myself is to review a series within a week; be it a series I overlooked, underappreciated or completely misunderstood during its early years, or a run that I’ve been buying for the past few years … read more
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Tagged DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Garth Ennis, graphic novels, Titan Books
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Lenore: Cooties TPB Review
2010, Titan Books
Written and illustrated by Roman Dirge
Cooties is the third hardback outing for Lenore, a quirky gothic minx who’s featured in a regular comic series and several animated shorts, and seems destined to grace black T-shirts for many years to come. Collecting the final third of the original Slave Labor Graphics run (entitled Lenore, the Cute Little … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, Slave Labor Graphics, Titan Books
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Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies! Review
2010, Wildstorm/Titan Books
Story: Ian Edginton
Art: Davide Fabbri, Tom Mandrake
Colours: Carrie Strachan
Yet another entry built from the “classic fiction + zombies = junk culture irony” formula, Victorian Undead takes the world’s greatest detective and – if the superfluous “Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies!” does not already made it clear enough – pits him against the hordes of the … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, Titan Books, Wildstorm, zombie comics
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Elmer Graphic Novel Review
2010, Slave Labor Graphics
Written and Illustrated by Gerry Alanguilan
Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer requires its readers to draw upon their ability to suspend disbelief. It’s the sort of book that, if you were to put it aside and apply a minimal degree of logic to its plot, would seem ridiculous to the point of unreadable. Yet Gerry Alanguilan fills his … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, indie comics, self-published, Slave Labor Graphics, World Comics
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A Sickness in the Family Graphic Novel Review
2010, Vertigo Crime
Story: Denise Mina
Art: Antonio Fuso, Lee Burmejo (cover)
If countless books and movies are anything to go by, we do love to watch middle classed families fall apart. Denise Mina’s A Sickness in the Family, the latest in DC’s Vertigo Crime imprint, is a gruesome study of one such affluent and revolting clan. The Ushers … read more
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Tagged crime comics, DC Comics, graphic novels, horror comics, Vertigo Comics
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Captain Caned Graphic Novel Review
2010, Four Bananas
Written & illustrated by Jim Morris
As unfashionable as it may be to admit this, I’ve never felt the need to get high. Perhaps my complacency with a sober mind has something to do with my overabundant imagination. While others need alcohol or narcotics to free them from bland reality, I’ve always been a serial daydreamer ever … read more
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Tagged adult comics, graphic novels, indie comics, self-published, small press
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The Silence Graphic Novel Review
2009, Allen & Unwin
Written & illustrated by Bruce Mutard
After discovering a mesmerising painting with no name attached to it, capitalist art dealer Choosy McBride and her idealistic boyfriend Dmitri journey to Northern Queensland, where their quest for the artist provides frustration and revelation in equal measure. Bruce Mutard’s tale of a couple’s infatuation with an elusive artist is … read more
Peaceful Warrior: The Graphic Novel Review
2010, published by HJ Kramer & New World Library
Story: Dan Millman
Art: Andrew Winegarner
Peaceful Warrior: The Graphic Novel is an adaptation of Dan Millman’s 1980 bestseller Way of the Peaceful Warrior. A spiritual coming of age drama with an apparent Carlos Castaneda influence, it’s evidently a beloved book (as a quick search online will validate) that has … read more
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Tagged books/literature, graphic novels, indie comics, small press
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