Peter Campbell - Review

Doc Macabre 1

Doc Macabre is a slight but nonetheless entertaining comic from the team of Steve Niles and Berni Wrightson.

When summarised, this comic combines all the things that I hate. Cute, anthropomorphosised animals. Oldie-worldie dialogue. A mock-medieval setting. A quest for a (presumably) fabulous object. Why then is it rather good?

Grim Ghost 0/Phoenix 0

Atlas Comics? I remember them the first time around. They were third rate imitators of Marvel and DC comics and it was a company that appeared and disappeared within a matter of months. These days they’re a curio, recalled with the odd sort of nostalgia that you reserve for the sort of object that you know wasn’t very good but which evokes pleasurable memories anyway.

Let Me In: Crossroads 1

Dark Horse have long specialised in film and TV adaptations, with the results normally being of distinctly mediocre quality. Now here comes Let Me In: Crossroads, a comic book prequel to a film that’s a remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In, which in turn was adapted from the novel of the same name. It’s a metatextual world we live in.

Incredible Hulks 618

Marvel and DC’s business strategy to the symptom of plummeting sales seems to be this: spin off your most popular characters into second and third and fourth books. Spin-off the spin-offs. Then involve them in one long, universe-threatening, cross-over.

The Killer: Modus Vivendi 5

An acclaimed series, taken from an award-winning series of European albums featuring the exploits of an introspective hitman, carrying out assassinations for political factions whose purposes he only slowly begins to understand. What could be better?

Bomb Queen 2

This is possibly not the worst comic I’ve ever read, but it feels like it.

Need More Love

Aline Kominsky-Crumb is the wife of her much more famous and lauded husband, Robert, but she’s also a talented and distinctive artist in her own right.

Perfect Stars

Perfect Stars is the creation of Jordan Piantedosi, under the pen name Romantic. It’s a web comic that breaks the rules. It’s arty and surprising and unclassifiable. It uses traditional techniques of pen and ink and, over its five year lifespan, it’s constantly evolving.

Uncanny X-Men 530

This is the first X-Men comic I’ve read since the end of Grant Morrison’s run, and it’s not bad. Not great, but not bad either.

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