Review: Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1
Posted by Seb Patrick at 10:12 on 07 Aug 2015

It's filled with incredibly striking imagery - and although the soft pencil lines look like no actual comic ever published (I've often wondered if the woman was actually meant to be the artist herself, looking at a rough draft of her own work), it's sort of surprising that in the thirty years since it was made, there hasn't been a single comic that's gone "Hey, this is an iconic pop culture image that plays with our form, we should try and make use of it somehow!"
Fortunately, Phonogram is back.
Review: Agents of SHIELD 2x13: One of Us
Posted by Ian Grundy at 12:40 on 21 Mar 2015

"I've had it with these motherfucking quakes on this motherfucking plane!"
There's something deeply unsatisfying about the way the plot of Agents of Shield lurches onwards. Every episode, every scene, and every subplot seems like it was started with absolutely no idea where any of it is going. Plots are frequently resolved by different plots showing up without warning overriding the previous plot. It's like jangling keys at the audience to distract us from the previous jangling keys.
Review: Agents of SHIELD 2x12: Who You Really Are
Posted by Ian Grundy at 22:50 on 11 Mar 2015

This week's episode guest-stars Jamie Alexander as Sif. Finally, a Sif episode! Sif's presence means there is a chance that someone might at some point actually say "Thor" out loud in a scene, as part of actual dialogue, to another character! As unlikely as it sounds this show actually started off as a tie-in with those popular Marvel movies, so it's always nice when someone from them actually shows up for a bit.
Oh wait, she's lost her memory. Never mind.
Review: Orphan Black #1
Posted by Abigail Brady at 11:28 on 27 Feb 2015

Review: The Sculptor
Posted by Graham Kibble-White at 12:34 on 17 Feb 2015

My bookshelves remain at capacity, which means every time I make a new purchase I have to run this equation: Am I willing to either remove an item to make room for it, or pass this one along when I'm done?
I've just finished reading The Sculptor by Scott McCloud and I've already secured it a new home. For me, it's not a keeper.
Review: Star Wars #1
Posted by Abigail Brady at 14:17 on 15 Jan 2015

Review: Ant-Man #1
Posted by Abigail Brady at 09:03 on 12 Jan 2015

Review: The Multiversity: The Just #1
Posted by Seb Patrick at 21:17 on 23 Oct 2014

And it further turns out that The Just, an issue that I have to admit I wasn't necessarily expecting to be much in the way of great shakes based on its cover and its solicit, is Morrison attempting to do something akin to The Kingdom (which is in itself ironic given that The Kingdom brought Morrison's once-abandoned "Hypertime" concept into official continuity for all of five minutes), only actually good. So it's a story of a world in which the Golden and Silver Age DC heroes age in real time, and so by the year 2014 have mostly (but not entirely) been replaced by their offspring and other successive generations. But rather than being made-up possible future heroes, they're all the legacy heroes from the '90s and beyond.
Or, to put it another way: The Multiversity: The Just is a Silver Age-style "imaginary story" featuring 1990s characters, filtered through a distinctly Morrisonian layer of metatextuality. With Damian Wayne in it.
I mean, if there's anything that I could better wave in people's faces and say "this is how I like my comics", I'd like to see it.
Review: Seth's Dominion
Posted by Graham Kibble-White at 14:03 on 16 Oct 2014

When it happened, it wasn't quite akin to chancing upon that last Kalo New Yorker strip in a musty old bookshop. But it was close. I spotted a tweet from publishers Drawn and Quarterly plugging the fact Seth's Dominion was playing at the Vue, Piccadilly on October 4. Herein was a feeling of real accomplishment. The thing was, metaphorically at least, to be mine. At last!
Review: Hawkeye: "L.A. Woman"
Posted by Seb Patrick at 14:50 on 20 Sep 2014

And then, something happened.