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
[ Currently: Listening to Radio Scotland ] The Originals is a graphic novel with story and art by the legend that is Dave Gibbons. It seems that I have grown up with Dave for most of my comic reading life. In the late seventies he drew a number of strips for… Continue reading
This book collects issues 261 to 266 of this long running title from Vertigo – it has been published continuously for 22 years and is the only title that survives from the imprint’s launch. This collection contains two stories – India and No Future. The main story, India, continues the… Continue reading
This mammoth collection collects the remainder of the Losers comic run (issues 13 – 32) that were previously collected as three separate trade paperbacks. In this volume the reason for the kill order on the team is revealed; Max and his plan are uncovered and revenge is served up. While… Continue reading
The first thing to say, in regards to all these blog entries, is that the date quoted in the subject is the date of the edition of the book I am reading not the original date of publication of the comic. This is particularly noticeable for this volume of the… Continue reading
The Nobody is written and illustrated by Canadian Jeff Lemire. I have not read any of his work before but I am aware that he has a continuing series, also on Vertigo, called Sweet Tooth. Large Mouth is a small town where nothing much happens until one day a mysterious… Continue reading
Having read all the offerings from Marvel that my son and I had on loan, I am taking a quick break by reading some recent issues of Greek Street before moving onto the DC books that I have from the library. For those that don’t know Greek Street is a… Continue reading
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