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Interview: Shawn Gabborin & Chad Cicconi
It’s been roughly 10 months since the first issue of Fracture hit the stands. Now that the trade is out do you still feel the same about the book as you did when it was first released? SG: I’m still...
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On Bagging & Boarding
So hey, I admit that as of late my blogging has been somewhat… sporadic. A few things are to blame, like my real life job, or a socially crippling addiction to Game of Thrones & the discovery of...
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Princeless: Short Stories for Warrior Women
The one problem with series that tend to create arcs in short volume runs is that inevitably you end up with some downtime on the months in between runs jonesing for a taster to keep you going till the...
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She Hulk: Single Green Female
While I have always been aware of the existence of Marvel’s Emerald Leading Lady, I had never read one of her books, for no reason other than it had simply never appealed to me. I (mistakenly) thought...
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Double Jumpers #3: By Dave Dwonch & Bill Blankenship
Scripted events are an odd thing in video games. For a medium that specialises so much in putting the player in control there have been a multitude of games where I’ve got to a particular point and...
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Pirate Eye – Mark Of The Black Widow
Genre is a curious thing that is just as malleable as it is set in stone. Though particular genre’s have fallen out of favour over the years as new ones have been invented the older genre’s often have...
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Princeless volume 2 #1 By Jeremy Whitley and Emily Martin
The first volume of Princeless, titled “Save Yourself”, saw Plucky Princess Adrienne rescue herself from a tower & then set out to rescue her sisters. Given that it took Adrienne a little under an...
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Hero 9 to 5: Quietus. By Ian Sharman, David Gray & Yel Zamor
Anyone that has made the transition from an idealistic youth to a cynical adult whilst reading super hero comics will have had to face up to the inevitable. As much as we look up to these spandex clad...
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MOMB Interview: Brockton McKinney and Larkin Ford
Ehmm Theory, the first ongoing title from Action Labs mature readers imprint Danger Zone, is a book that as a little bit of everything. The first issue features a talking kitten attacking a zombie...
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Man of Steel
So, here it is, finally. The long awaited take on Superman from David Goyer and the Nolan Brothers directed by Zack Snyder. A film with such weight of expectation that surely the only person who could...
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Skyward #1 by Jeremy Dale
The first word that springs to mind on reading Skyward’s first issue is Biblical. You might think that this is because the book has characters called Herod and runs with the title “The Genesis of the...
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American Vampire Anthology by Various
I should be bored of Vampires by now. Some days I think I’ve seen it all and that I’m sick of the bloody creatures. Come nightfall though I’ll suddenly find another take on the idea and the thirst for...
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The Comic Book Bucket List
It would be fair to say I’ve read a lot of comics in my time. Quite a lot as it happens. In fact the only thing I would say that compares with the amount of comics I have read is the amount of comics I...
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Who is Marvel’s Mightiest Hero?
Many moons ago Hachette started a Marvel Ultimate Graphic Novel Collection which attempted to condense roughly 35 years of Marvel history into 60 volumes. When this began I wrote a piece theorising...
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The Complete Accident Man by Pat Mills, Tony Skinner, Martin Edmond, Duke...
Chances are in the past few months you’ve received an automated phone call or text telling you they had the money for your recent accident, one which you never had, and chances are that you’ve wished...
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Headspace #1: By Ryan K. Lindsay, Erik Zawadzski, Chris Peterson and Marissa...
Memory and story have a few things in common, well they probably have a lot of things in common but for the purpose of this review the main thing that they have in common is that neither of them have...
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Idle Hands by Paul R Cheshire
I hate Facebook. I hate the enthusiastic joy with which people tell you what they had for breakfast, as if you’re going to take a fanatical interest in their future bowel movements. I hate the surprise...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
When the first X- Men movie was released back in 2000 it heralded the start of the movie age for Marvel. Yes Blade had come first but it was X-Men that really got audiences wanting to see Marvel’s...
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The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
The question “What makes a hero?” has plagued comic book writers for the best part of a century now so it seems appropriate that Lavie Tidhar’s latest novel The Violent Century takes place over roughly...
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