by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill ; Top Shelf Productions, Knockabout Comics
Tony Keen — 12-Apr-13
Nemo: Heart of Ice is still an Alan Moore comic, and that’s still pretty good. But it’s not Moore at the absolute top of his game.
Tags: Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill ; Top Shelf Productions, Knockabout Comics
Tony Keen — 20-Oct-12
The conclusion of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III is a bit of an anticlimax, but still worth reading.
Tags: Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Knockabout Comics, Top Shelf Productions
by Jeffrey Brown ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 04-Mar-11
This is Jeffrey Brown’s idiosyncratic version of, or perhaps love letter to, the Transformers.
Tags: Jeffrey Brown, Top Shelf
by Daren White, Eddie Campbell ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 15-Dec-10
This is much closer to being a character sketch than a (graphic) novel – not too much happens, there are no substantial crises, and so on. This is not in any sense a bad thing, since it’s one of the most incisive and profound character portraits I’ve seen in comics.
Tags: Daren White, eddie campbell, Top Shelf
by Kathryn & Stuart Immonen ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 03-Dec-10
I’m not sure how much I liked this WWII occupied Paris story of a museum curator vying with a German officer over what happens to the works of art.
Tags: Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen, Top Shelf, WWII
by J.D. Arnold, Richard Koslowski ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 01-Dec-10
The first name in the title will make you think of two blues giants, and the last term sounds musical too – but you’ll probably have also spotted the fairy tale reading.
Tags: J.D. Arnold, Richard Koslowski, Top Shelf
by James Kochalka ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 29-Nov-10
For me, one of the most consistently and hugely enjoyable comics of recent years, here collected for your convenience. The premise is simple enough: what if a top super-team were all assholes who hated each other?
Tags: James Kochalka, Superf*ckers, Top Shelf
by Will Dinski ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 25-Nov-10
This is an absolutely fascinating, compelling and disturbing graphic novel. The sophistication is in the thinking behind the story: this is a rich examination of ideas of beauty and the pressures to maintain it, and especially those on women and how that reflects on their position in the world.
Tags: Top Shelf, Will Dinski
by Misc. ; Top Shelf Productions
Martin Skidmore — 23-Nov-10
This 400-page collection is a selection of the best from alternative Japanese anthology AX: outsider material, a lot of it with an approach or attitude that would be unacceptable in the big mainstream publications.
Tags: AX, Manga, Top Shelf, Yoshihiro Tatsumi