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  • Joe the Barbarian

    Grant may be my favourite writer (who isn’t also an artist) in the history of comics, and this is one of his most completely satisfying works ever. It tells the story of a boy named Joe going into hypoglycemic shock, and his epic heroic fantasy quest to get to the kitchen for a soda, then to the basement to reset the surge protector, after lightning switched the electricity off.

  • Deadpool 33.1

    The first thing to say is that this actually fits what I thought a .1 ‘jumping-on point’ issue might be like far more than the other couple I’ve tried. It’s a one-off story, giving what I assume to be a typical flavour of the character. The second thing to say is: isn’t Bong Dazo a great name for a comedy hippy?

  • Giant Size Atom 1

    It’s not quite up there with Giant-Sized Man-Thing, but Giant Size Atom’s a pleasing oxymoron. If only the contents were as diverting.

  • Powers 7

    Powers was always a winning idea: ordinary cops investigating super-powered crimes. By now, Bendis has raised the stakes some, in that our pair of cops are investigating the death of the demigod Damocles.

  • Grant Morrison – Talking with Gods

    Grant Morrison is one of those people who would be interesting enough to carry a documentary were you to point a camera at them and let them talk. Which is just as well, because that’s what this documentary basically consists of.

  • Incredible Change-Bots 2

    This is Jeffrey Brown’s idiosyncratic version of, or perhaps love letter to, the Transformers.

  • 2 Sinister Dexter books

    Gunshark Vacation & Murder 101: I found these two books at £3 each in a remaindered bookshop, and after really enjoying the end of Abnett’s Heroes For Hire #1, I was pleased to snap them up.

  • The Devil’s Trail

    This comes from the publisher Creator’s Edge and is an introduction to what will apparently be a full graphic novel later this year. It has a Western setting, with a protagonist reminiscent of such enigmatic characters from the films as Shane or Clint Eastwood’s man with no name. However, it is not a straight Western, as it incorporates supernatural horror elements on a scale to render the setting almost post-apocalyptic.

  • The Mission 1

    Hitchcock once described suspense something like this: if a bomb under a table goes off, that’s a shock. If the viewer sees it there, the timer counting down, the people around the table not knowing it’s there, it’s suspense. The Hoebers haven’t quite grasped this.

  • Heroes for Hire 1

    Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning revisit another old team, successfully.

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