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Russell Willis — 10-Jun-13
Russell Willis reminisces about the late Martin Skidmore, the beloved founder of this website, and his influence on Russell’s interest in comics and Russell’s new comics-reading app, Sequential.
Tags: Martin Skidmore, Sequential
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DA Madigan — 29-May-13
So… where are all the super-smart superheroines? D. A. Madigan takes an unusual look at the gender divide in the superheroic world…
Tags: Batgirl, Black Canary, Invisible Girl, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Wasp, Wonder Woman
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Will Morgan — 03-Sep-12
The pertinent question nobody’s asking – or at least not often enough – is not “Can the Dandy be saved?”, but “Does the Dandy deserve to be saved?”
Tags: British, Dandy, Jamie Smart, Lew Stringer
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Will Morgan — 22-May-12
Since 1985’s Crisis On Infinite Earths,, the “Summermegacrossover” has become a tradition at the Big Two, an action-packed, highly-lucrative “event” in which some unprecedented calamity calls for all of DC’s or Marvel’s biggest guns to band together to avert the destruction of the Universe/the Earth/East Grinstead in a series of increasingly-contrived battle extravaganzas.
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Win Wiacek — 27-Apr-12
Swift was the fourth title to emerge from the Hulton Press stable under the auspices of the Reverend Malcolm Morris as part of his crusade to produce high quality, morally uplifting comics for children. Whilst never to gain the giddy heights achieved by Eagle, it joined secondary titles Girl and Robin, and was a publication which targeted the then-untapped audience between pre-schoolers and independent readers, completing for Hulton a slick and colourful line of publications which catered to all “good and decent” children from the cradle to adulthood.
Tags: British Comics, Eagle, Hulton Press, Swift
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Martin Skidmore — 19-Oct-11
Thor is one of Marvel’s oldest and most powerful characters, and a prominent member of the Avengers. He was also fortunate up to 1982 in having stable creative teams. Why, then, did he rarely arouse interest in fans in the 1970s?
Tags: Gerry Conway, John Bus, Len Wein, Martin Skidmore, Marvel, Thor
by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima ; First Comics
Martin Skidmore — 10-Oct-11
Lone Wolf and Cub, or Kozure Okami in Japanese, is one of the big success stories of manga. I intend to try to explain why I think this is one of the finest few comic series I’ve ever seen.
Tags: Dark Horse Comics, First Comics, goseki kojima, kazuo koike, Lone Wolf, lone wolf & cub, Manga, Martin Skidmore
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Tony Keen — 12-Sep-11
In the window of the old location of Gosh Comics there was a cartoon that depicted a bloated Captain America serving the needs of US agribusiness. I think this idea of Captain America is completely wrong.
Tags: Captain America, Jack Kirby, Marvel
by Carlos Sampayo, José Muñoz ; Fantagraphics Books
Martin Skidmore — 12-Sep-11
If you were asked where, in comics, you might look to find out what New York City’s like, you might reasonably struggle for a satisfactory answer. Carlos Sampayo and José Muñoz are strange choices for this non-existent contest. Argentinians who, at least when their Joe’s Bar and Alack Sinner stories were created, had never so much as visited New York, their vision must surely arise from fiction, perhaps mostly from American movies, and thus can’t be taken wholly seriously. Nonetheless, their portrait seems far more persuasive than even those of the city’s most talented and devoted natives, like Frank Miller or Will Eisner.
Tags: Carlos Sampayo, jose, Jose Munoz, Martin Skidmore, Sinner
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Martin Skidmore — 20-Feb-11
A belated apology for not following Brubaker from many years ago, thanks to finally reading his superb Catwoman run.
Tags: Batman, Brad Rader, Cameron Stewart, Catwoman, DC, Ed Brubaker, Javier Pulido, Paul Gulacy