Well it is the end of another year and I haven’t managed to spend any time maintaining this blog. So, in what is rapidly becoming an annual tradition, I am posting an image from Goodreads of all the comic books that I have read this year. Highlights this year were… Continue reading
“I wish they’d let me join them in death. I would have been a great ghost. Maybe I didn’t have the right hat.” This spin-off series from Fables enters its second major story line, and its first without creator Bill Willingham who remains as a consultant, with South African author… Continue reading
“Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home.” The latest trade collection of the Vertigo series, Fables, takes us to volume 18 collecting issues 114 to 123 – marking 10 years of the series. The usual contributors are present again with writer Bill Willingham and… Continue reading
“… dead gods are another thing altogether. They can be infinitely more useful.” This long delayed original graphic novel is a spin off from the long running Vertigo series, Fables. As with the main series, it was written by Bill Willingham. The book has a number of artists – Jim… Continue reading
“One day I recall, I had to re-kill my entire platoon.” This recently finished 8 part mini-series from Vertigo was created by writer Dan Abnett and artist I.N.J. Culbard. Abnett has had a long career as a writer of prose books, most notably a large number of Warhammer 40K novels,… Continue reading
“So now what?” “We wait, we web-cast pictures of what appear to be Tara and her kidnappers, from a anom source.” “Huh? But webee staff on the show …” ‘Jesus, Bob … it’s called drama …” This is a recently finished nine issue mini series from Vertigo. The creative team… Continue reading
This is my first post in the brand new home of the RevolutionSF blogs. It’s great that the blogs have finally caught up with the 21st century and hopefully posts will be easier to produce and maintain. I am currently re-reading the recently finished Spaceman series from Vertigo by Brian… Continue reading
Quote: ‘You’re going to slay me with a walking stick? I know I’m just a girl and all, but it’s a bit far-fetched.’ I don’t tend to make many posts about single issues of comics but I thought I would about this one for completeness as, together with… Continue reading
Quote: “I smell a rat! No, I smell whatever sort of vermin a rat smells when he smells a rat!” The recent publication of issue 6 of Fairest marks the end of the first story. Fairest is the latest spinoff from Fables and will focus on the female… Continue reading
Quote: “You kids’re talkin’ about robbing a bank!” “No, we’re talkin’ about goin’ to get a dead guy’s money.” This book collects the four issue mini-series that was the first collaboration between writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso. This was the start of a successful partnership that… Continue reading
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