[ Currently: Listening to Metallica ] Quote: For now, I’m just happy to be alive. Well, you know what I mean. This book collects issues 1 – 5 of the newish ongoing iZombie series from Vertigo. It was written by Chris Roberson who wrote the Fables spin-off series From Fabletown… Continue reading
Quote: Cry havoc and let slip the woody heads of war! This is volume 14 of the Fables paperbacks and it collects issues 86-93. The volume contains three stories that were again all written by Bill Willingham. The art on the first story was by Jim Fern and… Continue reading
Quote: “Get your paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” “There’s no need to be rude. It isn’t as if hot baths are easy to come by in the jungle.” This is volume 7 of the Jack of Fables paperbacks and it collects issues 36-40. It was again… Continue reading
This is volume 13 of the Fables paperbacks and it collects issues 83 – 85 of Fables, issues 33-35 of Jack of Fables and issues 1-3 of The Literals. It was written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges and the art was by the usual collection of artists involved with… Continue reading
This is volume 6 of the spin-off series from Fables collecting issues 28 – 32. It was written by Fables writer Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges writer of the excellent House of Mystery – also for Vertigo. Art duties were shared amongst Tony Akins, Ross Braun, Jose Marzan Jr. and… Continue reading
This book collects the 3 issue Fever mini-series by Brendan McCarthy and an early meeting between Spider-man and Doctor Strange from Spider-Man Annual #2 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Lee and Ditko, of course, require no introduction to fans of Spider-Man or Doctor Strange. I am a big fan… Continue reading
This is an odd five issue mini-series from 2001. Each part is a separate story with the only link between them being the developing relationship between Batman and Jim Gordon. The series had three writers – Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Chuck Dixon – and seven artists (not including cover… Continue reading
This books collects a number of short stories that were all drawn by Greg Staples – a regular contributor to 2000AD having worked on such characters as Judge Dredd, Sláine and Sinister Dexter. His style reminds me of Simon Bisley which is appropriate as he was first introduced to 2000AD’s… Continue reading
This book is the collection of the six issue comic series by Warren Ellis and Jacen Burrows. I presume that Ellis needs little introduction as his work appears almost everywhere – from Transmetropolitan and Hellblazer on Vertigo to Stormwatch and Planetary on Wildstorm to various Ultimate universe books for Marvel… Continue reading
[ Currently: Listening to Hunky Dory ] Nemesis brings together the creative partnership of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven who worked on Civil War – about the only “big event” crossover that I have shown any interest in recently – and Old Man Logan (which is in my to be read… Continue reading
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