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The Power Of Tank Girl Interview: An Audience with Alan Martin with a bevy of Guest Stars

Nevs Coleman and guests interview Alan Martin about Tank Girl’s second coming.

Right Way, Wrong Way: A Look at Barbarella and Little Nemo: Return To Slumberland

The ever even-handed Nevs Coleman discusses how, and how not, to promote and package projects…

Doorways 2

This just doesn’t cut it for me. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the writing, it’s well thought out and the dialogue is okay, but it doesn’t blow me away. The whole ‘other-dimensional shtick’ has been done a million times before and needs to be a hundred times better to grab my attention.

Polly & Her Pals, Vol. 1: 1925-1927

Thoughts I have had in regard to Polly & Her Pals, Vol. 1: 1925-1927, recently out from IDW…

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit

A great deal of the pleasure of Donald Westlake’s Parker books (written under the nom de plume of Richard Stark, as the unwieldly IDW titles are careful to remind us) comes from watching a man who knows what he’s doing do what he does.

Doc Macabre 1

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

The Best of Dan DeCarlo/The Best of Stan Goldberg

These two oversize hardbacks reprint material from various Archie titles each concentrating on the work of a single artist. The reproduction is excellent and the colouring, based on the original guides, very sympathetic to the glossy paper.

Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein

If this book, the first volume in IDW’s “Chilling Archives of Horror Comics”, is any indication of what the future holds in store, we’re in for a treat. This gorgeous large-size hardback is priced to be affordable, loaded with wonderful artwork, printed beautifully and selected appropriately to showcase all the different faces of Dick Briefer’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races, and High-Toned Women!

Barney Google was the great picaresque comic strip of the 1920s and 30s. Billy DeBeck’s artwork, more notable for its energy more than for its draftsmanship, was unique on the comics page, a scribbly, gestural line supported by shrewd shading and opulent backgrounds that were more suggested than drawn.