Merry Christmas!
Victor and Champ 1297, December 1985. Continue reading Merry Christmas!
Author: alisterb
Cover of the Week – Motormouth and Killpower 9
Motormouth and Killpower 9 from Marvel UK. Federico del Barrio/Paul Neary. Continue reading Cover of the Week – Motormouth and Killpower 9
Let them eat eggs
Break the Cake – David Robertson – Fred Egg Comics First things first. I need to confess. I was a resident of the fair city of Dundee for several years. Billy McKenzie? I saw him walking the city streets with his whippet and his cool hats. Philosophy lectures in the Tower Building? I sat through them (when they weren’t too early). One thing I didn’t … Continue reading Let them eat eggs
Edinburgh Comic Art Festival – Winter 2018
This weekend saw the Edinburgh Comic Art Festival put on another show in the city. Last time it was on the fringes of the Book Festival in the city centre. This time the event was part of Scottish Book Week and was in the more relaxed setting of Leith’s Out of the Blue. A great selection of artists there and I picked up a ton … Continue reading Edinburgh Comic Art Festival – Winter 2018
Out of Time
Brigantia by Chris Mole, Melissa Trender, Nikki Foxrobot As a new kickstarter has been announced for issue 2 of Brigantia, I thought it would be timely to talk about Brigantia issue 1 – Stranger in a Strange Land which I picked up last year. A flame-haired Celt gets in a fight and ends up wandering in a confused fashion outside of Embankment tube in London. … Continue reading Out of Time
Shed Heaven
Cree by Una What is a cree? It is a refuge, a place of safety, of escape. Somewhere you can go to make and mend and hide from the wearing down of the world; the pressures of work, family fallouts or worse. Maybe it is a place to talk and meet, maybe it is a place to be alone. It’s a garden shed, a spare … Continue reading Shed Heaven
Drowning in Berlin
Berlin: City of Stones and Berlin: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes – a messy review by Sarah Wilson, a non-comic reading sociologist With a new instalment out, it might be a good time to offer something on the series….before knowing the fate of too many of the characters and giving too much away. I have a horrible feeling that the story might end where … Continue reading Drowning in Berlin
Halloween Cover of the Week!
Super Spider-Man issue 258 from Marvel UK. Cover Paul Gulacy Continue reading Halloween Cover of the Week!
Castle Greyscale
The Penned Guins by Alan Henderson I can only surmise that at an early age Alan was taken to Edinburgh Zoo. He marveled at the meercats, was terrified by the tigers and reveled in the rhinoceroses. Then as one o’clock struck he saw an amazing sight. A line of small creatures wobbling towards him, dressed like waiters and smelling of fish. Waiters in a fish … Continue reading Castle Greyscale
Automatic for the Sheeple
Alex Automatic issue 3. Fraser Campbell, Colin Bell, David B Cooper and James Corcoran. This is the third issue of the super-spy psycho-thriller Alex Automatic from Cabal Comics and among the Kickstarter rewards was a soundtrack (from Allan Swan) that may put you in mind of a freaky 70’s kids TV show with a BBC Radiophonic Workshop theme tune. Think Dr Who but less wholesome. … Continue reading Automatic for the Sheeple
Daredevils and Warriors 