Will Morgan - FA Online

Whither The Dandy?…. And Does it Have To?

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?”

Pandora – by Howard Stangroom and Stephen Lowther

Here’s the second Pandora strip, newly-coloured by artist Stephen Lowther.

Romantic Mayhem Pocket Book

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS Love? It’s a trick and a trap, a delusion planned to keep women in their place and out of the way – or such is the overt message of most of the stories in this sturdy A5 comedy anthology, 52 pages of infatuation, obsession, misunderstanding, betrayal and occasional pants-wetting laughs, shot […]

NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. AGAIN.

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.

Good Sports

If you’ve ever wondered, “What would it look like if Mike Allred drew gay porn?”, the question’s very nearly answered with Good Sports…

Pandora – by Howard Stangroom and Nigel Kitching.

Here, in Pandora’s 30th year (!), is the very first Pandora page, newly-coloured by Nigel Kitching.

Lily Renée, Escape Artist; From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

Lily Renée is one of a largely unsung legion of women who by their example offer the answer to the question, “Why aren’t there many women comics creators?”. Said answer, of course, is: “They’re out there; and moreover, they always have been, for as long as the medium’s been in existence.”

Voodoo 1-5

Our heroine is a hybrid of humanity and the Daemonites, who sent her to Earth to gather Intel on the superhero community, and circumvent the obstacles said heroes would present to a Daemonite invasion. And of course the most practical, least obtrusive way to achieve this is to make your sleeper agent a shapeshifting supermodel stripper who telepathically plucks secrets from denizens of the nearby New Orleans military base while she gives them private dances. Hey, don’t look like that; it could work …

First Class Comic Review 7

Two frequently asked questions among my aging circle of comics fan acquaintances; “Where are all the fanzines these days?”, and “Where’s the next generation of comics fans coming from?” Well, if the awkwardly-named First Class Comic Review is any indication, the future of both fanzines and at least part of the ‘next gen’ is in good hands.

Aquaman 1

For more than a decade, Aquaman has been the joke of DC Comics. Although mentions in TV shows such as Entourage and Big Bang Theory have helped keep him in the public consciousness, it’s been as a figure of ridicule, universally derided as the most useless hero in DC’s pantheon. Geoff Johns takes all the major Aquaman jokes and slaps each one soundly round the face as he dismisses it, hopefully forever.