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The Seven Sagas of Silverbeard from Pete Taylor with Mark Hughes published by Catfood Comics If you are a lover of the truly great ages of comics then you will know the name Silverbeard. From the four color epics of the sixties, zipatone mythology crackling with energy to the bronze age with its explosive action. The great god-ape was an omnipresent part of the scene … Continue reading Legends of the Forgotten God-Ape
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We have starting points. Sometimes we have restarting points. Sometimes we are reborn. Continue reading “A Rag, A Bone, A Hank of Hair”
Atomic Hercules by Tony Esmond and Adam Falp This book has a slightly silly premise which pokes light fun at millenials and political correctness and all that stuff. Of course we now know that what really causes the apocalypse is not safe spaces but eating bats, underfunding healthcare and thinking that spin doctors and media management could stop a virus. The authors were not to … Continue reading Nuclear Olympian
Turkey Grove Farms Markosia Comics Writer – William Bienz Art – J.C Grande Colors – Jose David Ocampo / Cover Colors – V. Shane Letters – Adam O. Pruett When Comixology decided to up prices by 66%, just as we were all locked in our houses for an undetermined time I and many others vowed to go elsewhere for our digital comics fix. One great … Continue reading Home to Roost
Chip McFitz – Joint Fever by Matt Greaves Reefer Madness hits the comic stands. We have had some hard hitting drugs stories in comics. Denny O’Neill and Neil Adams made Green Arrows ward Speedy a junkie in the famous ‘Snowbirds Don’t Fly’ issue. Poor Karen Page also started chasing the dragon in Daredevil (it didn’t get much better for Karen unfortunately.) A more pleasant time … Continue reading Reefers and Riffs
Gamayun Tales 1 – An Anthology of Modern Russian Folk Tales by Alexander Utkin. Published by NoBrow Press. “In the Murom district Kostroma was represented by a straw figure dressed in woman’s clothes and flowers. This was laid in a trough and carried with songs to the bank of a lake or river. Here the crowd divided into two sides, of which the one attacked … Continue reading Once Upon A Time in the East
Spookids Part One – Brain Hat by Marc Jackson published by Weirdo Comics Would you let your friend attach your brain to an experimental machine which reads your thoughts and turns them into real life stuff? Not sure that would be a great idea in my case, although I can see the positive side. In Spookids that is exactly what Bud does for his eccentric … Continue reading Something inside your Brain is Drooling
Woodland Creatures: Wild Souls Volume One by Cristina Roswell, Fali Ruiz-Dávila, Tomás Aira Experts think that we should reintroduce the wolf to the more remote parts of Scotland. The deer are out of control, are destroying the trees and generally causing chaos to the ecosystem. A pack of our lupine friends ranging across the highland landscape would cut down on deer numbers and help save the … Continue reading Charismatic Animals
The Spark As a history nerd I must admit that my first thought when I saw The Spark was, did they name it after Lenin’s pre-revolutionary Bolshevik newspaper Iskra? I mean, it would be educational but maybe not the best for an audience of primary school age. No, this Spark is a new title that describes itself as “an all-ages, sci-fi comic magazine”. The Spark … Continue reading Bright Sparks
Stig & Tilde – Vanisher’s Island and Stig & Tilde – Leader of the Pack by Max de Radiguès In our town for as long as anyone can remember, when a kid turns 14 years old, they must leave by boat to one of the hundreds of islands around the town and survive alone, for a year. When they return they officially step into adulthood. … Continue reading Island Life
Vanguard Book Three – Dan Butcher Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. The British superhero team. I love them, I especially love small press and indy versions and they continue to bring energy and invention to the genre. Vanguard is a long-running webcomic by Dan Butcher that has also been successfully collected … Continue reading The Wolf Comes out of the Woods
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