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Superman Adventures, Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man, and… more…

Next month, we go to the comic shop, and Marvel has one comic on the shelf. It’s by Ty Templeton. It’s called Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man. Next to it is Superman Family Adventures by Art Baltazar, published by DC. And we all lived happily ever after.

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 […]

Avengers vs. X-Men

The comic reader’s sense of entitlement makes me laugh. If you want to read something that congratulates you for buying another thing that rewards Marvel for their treatment of comic creators, you’re in the wrong place, True Believer.

The Year of Loving Dangerously: A Graphic Memoir

What sets this apart from a lot of other autobiog work, and in fact elevates it to that higher standard set by Spiegelman, Pekar, Spain, Crumb, etc., is that Ted Rall’s neither looking for sympathy nor approval in this work. He’s fully cognisant of the fact that it’s his choices that has put him in the position that he’s in.

The Avengers

If flawed, this film’s as good as anyone could realistically expect. It’s told by people who understand the team’s nature and appeal, and can bottle that and serve it to audiences new and fannish alike. It’s been a five-film wait. And it’s pretty much been worth it.

Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

Grant Morrison has been a hero for as long as I’ve had heroes, from me and my brother devouring Zenith when it was in 2000 AD, all the way up to reading the first edition of All Star Superman, his greatest work, and the best superhero comic ever written.

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…

The Bulletproof Coffin 1-3

The Bulletproof Coffin, unlike pretty much 95% of the routine soulless dross that hits the funnybook shelves every week, isn’t about nostalgia for trademarks and icons. David Hine and Shaky Kane don’t create to maintain the status quo; they have produced a work of wonder that recollects that feeling you had when you first read a comic, that wonder, that lunacy.

Leeroy and Popo

Like the lives of its eponymous heroes, The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo is an engaging yet directionless story of twenty-something boys not getting much done.

Forming Volume 1

Genisis Reloaded! Jesse Moynihan has taken the creation myths of the great religions, stuffed them into a blender with a bunch of trash sci-fi, video game imagery and chatroom bullshit, then blitzed ‘em up into a technicolour mélange of wild, cosmic originality!