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Monthly Archives: July 2007

SUPER ZEROES

Never heard of the Super Zeroes?  How about the Singaporean creators,Keeve and Kang?  Boy,if not you really do need to check out their site for news and info at:-
http://www.super-zeroes.com/

Fantagraphic Books

 
Love & Rockets #20  56pp  b&w and colour US comic   $7.99/£5.50
Just to show how much we get over-charged in the UK,I’d like to point out that £5.50 means we pay double what US readers do.
That said,how the hell could I not buy L&R?!
I fell in love with Jaime’s artwork…20 years ago? Jeez,I could swear it […]

WILLIE HEWES

Hero/Villain  16pp   A5[Digest]  £1.50
For ordering info check out www.WillieHewes.co.uk
Elsewhere I’ve reviewed Willie Hewes’ ongoing series called Amaranth.  When I popped into Travelling Man and saw this single copy on the shelf I had to buy it.
As you’ll note,the sub-title gives it all away:”A tale of love beyond good and evil!”  A kidnapped damsel in distress […]

A Nostalgic Look At Class Comics

   
 BUNDLES OF FUN AND WONDER!
In the 1960s,when it was “hit or miss” as to what title your local newsagents [in my case,Mina Road had Jarman’s -a shop with a glass fronted cabinet displaying toy soldiers and a rotating rack with comics!] might carry,there was was one publisher who offered us a mix of Atlas,Charlton,Marvel and […]

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No Invincible this week??  Oh well….
Creature From The Depths  36pp  US col. comic
I saw this comic on the shelf and thought I’d not bother but then I thought again.  I do that a lot.  Think.  Age,y’know.
Never,ever heard of Mark Kidwell but here he is writing and drawing the lot!  It’s a modern take on the […]

DARK HORSE

Speak Of The Devil #1 [1 of 6]   US  b&w comic book
Now,having previously given a link to Gilbert Hernandez’s Naked Cosmos,I wondered what I was in for when Tom,soon to leave my local Forbidden Planet store,went straight to the shelf and handed me the moustachioed ones latest.
I never ever intend to give away plots [CAPTAIN AMERICA […]

TWOMORROWS Magazines

BACK ISSUE #23  108pp    $6.95/£4.50
Has Back Issue really reached….no,done that already.  Hrrm.
Initially,when this title first appeared I was 50-50 on whether to keep buying.  I’m glad I stuck with it.  Adam Hughes’ Mary Jane grabs the cover with the kicker line of them all:”Face it,Tiger..You just hit the jackpot!” But there is even more -8 […]

 ALTER EGO#70   100pp   $6.95/£4.50
Well,has Alter Ego really gone 70 issues?  Obviously,or else what am I reviewing?!
A wonderful Gene “The Dean” Colan cover.  How can you go wrong with that?  Anyhow,this is a follow up in a way to AE#50 which looked at Editor Roy Thomas’s career in fandom and comics.  And this is a superb […]

David Lloyd -Kick-Back?

I thought I’d mention David Lloyd.  He has been around for a very long time but,unlike Dave Gibbons,Brian Bolland and others I’ll not mention for fear of being accused of favouritism,David seems to never have gotten a big ‘name’.
But let’s look at what he has done -he set up the Portobello Project in the 1980s […]

Travelling Man…moving on?

Rumours spread like wildfire in comic circles.  Add a few gossipy washerwomen and…
Just down the road from the Forbidden Planet mega-store,closer to the city centre,Travelling Man has always been seen as playing “second fiddle” to its big competitor.  But to say I was shocked when someone told me the store had closed might be a […]