Some very nice comics arrived from Ebay today. A bunch of Miracleman comics, from the classic Eclipse Comics series. Issues 12, 14 , 22, 23, and Miracleman: Apocrypha #3 (of 3), to be exact. Leaves me just #’s 11, 13, 15 and 24 of the main series to complete the entire run. I was outbid [...]
I’ve been going through a bit of a crazy phase recently. Almost a reversion to my youth, or, at least, my youthful collecting habits. I’ve been spending a lot of money on Ebay, trying to pick up some of the rare relics of my early-to-mid teenage years, when I was an obsessive collector of British [...]
One of my current favourite comics is a four-part mini-series published under the Marvel Knights imprint, Silver Surfer: Requiem. The series is is written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski himself (yep, he of Babylon 5 fame), and the beautiful, painted art is by Esad Ribic, someone whom I haven’t come across before, but [...]
One of the best comics that I’ve read in recent months is Eternals, a seven-part mini series produced by Marvel Comics, written by Neil Gaiman, and with art by John Romita, Jr. It’s a reimagining of Jack Kirby’s classic Eternals series from the 1970s and 1980s, and really elevates what was really a second [...]
Berlin is one of the classics of modern comics, and is on a par with the “greats” of the medium, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus. If you want to impress someone who is not a fan of comics (or positively derogatory about them), you don’t hand them Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman or Superman. These people will [...]
One day a guy who works at the local comics shop (hi Chris!) made a comment that left me completely dumbfounded. He stated that he didn’t like SF. He didn’t like to read it, or to watch it, either on TV or at the movies.
After I’d picked my jaw up from the floor, I managed [...]
