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  • 15 Love 1

    Remember Andi Watson? One of the rising stars of the latter twentieth century, who brought us Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day, Skeleton Key, and other delightful, imaginative, lively stories? Guess what? I just found out he has a counterpart on the Bizarro World!

  • The Walking Dead TV Series season 1

    The Walking Dead comic book, when I read the first issue, did not grab me. “It’s 28 Days Later, in black & white, without even the benefit of Cillian Murphy’s winkie – what’s the point in that?” Similarly, the unique selling point of actor Andrew Lincoln, in vehicles like This Life and Teachers, was his cheerful inability to retain much in the way of clothing – his thespian abilities didn’t make much of an impression. But I was pleasantly surprised, in both cases, to have underestimated the parties in question.

  • Thor

    Okay, let me get it out of my system; one of this movie’s greatest assets is the eye-popping physique of its star, Chris Hemsworth. This particular god would be the answer to more than one moviegoer’s prayers, as he’s spectacularly three-dimensional before you even put on the glasses.

  • Power Girl 23

    The first twelve issues of Power Girl – and the story-arc that preceded it in the JSA Classified title – were delightful. Taking the permagrumpy powerhouse of the Justice Society and infusing her with a wry sense of humour and self-awareness, they humanised a character who had become an overbearing, ambulant wet-dream cliche, placing her in a context where she had actual friends and a life. All down to the hitherto unsuspected (at least by me) scripting talents of Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray, Kara/Karen became grounded and – look, I’m sorry, but there’s no way around it – well-rounded, coming across as more than an ersatz Supergirl.

  • Archie 616 & 617

    Alex Simmons is in the wrong job. Judging from the evidence in these two issues, he could make a lot of money as a spin doctor for America’s Republican Party.

  • Elmer

    We’re in the present day of a world where, back in 1979, chickens suddenly developed sentience, becoming the intellectual peers of humanity, and causing social and political chaos as they fought for freedom – and the humans, terrified by the revolt of a lucrative food source, fought back.

  • Adventure Comics 523-525

    Twenty-two years ago, in the previous ‘hardcopy’ incarnation of this illustrious publication, I concluded a dismissal of the first issue of the 1989 Legion of Super-Heroes series with a phrase along the lines of, “Legion fans have long memories, and endless patience. We can wait.”

  • Archie & Friends 153

    This themed issue looks at four successive April Fools’ Days in the life of Riverdale High’s premier prankster, Reggie Mantle. Each story is by a different artist/writer combo, each a little different from the Archie ‘house style’ – retaining enough of the characteristic flourishes so that the characters remain on-model, but still giving a slightly different flavour to each tale.

  • Warlord of Mars – Dejah Thoris 1 & 2

    Okay, admittedly I’m a stranger to the twilight world of the heterosexual, but honestly, guys –what is going on with these covers? The variants on the two issues so far have run a gamut from ‘That’s a bit cheesy’ to ‘Sweet Zombie Jesus, Get It Away From Me!’.

  • New Avengers 7

    There’s a lot to be said against Brian Michael Bendis’ writing, and I’ve said most of it already; his overrated, sprawling style has become the industry standard, padding out storylines endlessly to fill the all-important Trade Paperback, with a multitude of costumes all saying the same ‘cool’ things in exactly the same voice, characterisation being subverted to a plot point or a ‘witty’ punchline.

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