Liberation Tales
Review: MARGUERITE VS. THE OCCUPATION Marguerite is a young woman living in a village in occupied France. But with allied troops on the way hope is in sight. Only a German machine gun nest stands in the way. The problem is that this emplacement has a commanding view across the valley. Worst still, it is located in the shattered ruins of Marguerite’s home. Marguerite vs … Continue reading Liberation Tales
Daredevils and Cold Warriors
Review: American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason ‘American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason‘ is an Eisner nominated book by Brett Dakin. It tells the story of a Golden Age comics pioneer who faced the trials of McCarthyism and the onslaught of the ‘Seduction of the Innocent‘ era war on comics with the introduction of the comics code. … Continue reading Daredevils and Cold Warriors
Love Bites
Midnight Widows issues 1 & 2 Doris V. Sutherland, Marcela Hauptvogelova, Jio Butler Rosie Wigg, Delia Mihai, Rob Jones Vampires are immortal and deathless, or so the stories would have us believe. The vampire genre is somewhat undead as well. Not only does it live on but like the vamps in Midnight Widows it has spawned sub-types and mutations. Dracula may provide the template but … Continue reading Love Bites
Take the Leap
Absolutely cracking Daredevil and Frog-Man commission from Jonny Cannon. He could also be Leap-Frog of course as the spring heeled amphibian wonder originated as a Daredevil villain. Leap-Frog’s costume was taken up by his son who tried to make the switch to hero. His antics were usually fairly disastrous however. Continue reading Take the Leap
Dialectical Aetherialism
Powers – Fearful & Divine Written by Cy Dethan, art by RHStewart and letters by Nic Wilkinson The Victorian era is often thought of as a time of progress. The industrial revolution unleashed a golden age of engineering. New scientific discoveries like Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution unlocked the secrets of life. The industrial transformation of society was studied by political philosophers like Karl Marx … Continue reading Dialectical Aetherialism
Mindfulness Session
Mind Hacker By Luke J Halsall and Chris Manson The world of work. Our relationship with it has changed over the past eighteen months. Some of us are sat at our kitchen tables, or in our spare rooms if we are lucky, interacting with our bosses and co-workers by Teams, Slack and Zoom. But the rhythm of the working week has not necessarily changed. The … Continue reading Mindfulness Session
Bad for your elf
Sprout, written and illustrated by Craig Sinclair Sprout is an adorable elf, dressed in brightly coloured garb and striding through his fairy tale home with an optimistic spring in his step. Sprout could come from the pages of many works of Twentieth Century children’s fiction. He is straight from Enid Blyton central casting, set the controls for the centre of the Magic Faraway Tree. But … Continue reading Bad for your elf
So…it goes
So Buttons by Jonathan Baylis So Buttons is described by author Jonathan Baylis as ‘the newer magazine of weird auto-bio’. In the spirit of Harvey Pekar and David Robertson, the book has several autobiographical stories by Jonathan, illustrated by a variety of artists, many of whom are well known names in comics. Jonathan’s tales of old comic shops, celebrities exceeding expectations and obscure Jack Kirby … Continue reading So…it goes
Rocky Road to Hell
Buzzard issue 3 Preview I was fortunate enough to get a preview of the forthcoming issue of Buzzard by Andrea Wolf. Buzzard is a teenage hit-man from the gutters with a penchant for literature and a talent for killing. This issue sees him facing two struggles, one with his own libido and a more mortal struggle as he is sent to kill a veteran assassin. … Continue reading Rocky Road to Hell
Future Shocked
Sentinel – The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Comic The first thing that strikes the reader about Sentinel is the cover. Does that logo look familiar? It might do to many of us, being a tribute to those classic Starblazer issues that D.C Thomson brought us so many years ago, adapting their popular Commando pocket book format (and providing an audience for early work from the likes … Continue reading Future Shocked
