Comics and Chips
Glasgow Comic Con 29th June 2019 Europe roasts, Catalonia is ablaze and across the shires of England the yeomanry fire up the barbeque and empty corner shop beer fridges in council estate and village green alike. In the lands to the North optimistic Scots set forth with joy in their eyes, clad only in t-shirts, the more daring in shorts. They have a destination on … Continue reading Comics and Chips
Fear of Heights
A look back at Vertigo This week DC announced the end of the Vertigo line. Vertigo was a clear attempt by DC to create a line of comics which were not aimed at children but at young adults and older. Vertigo came along at just the right time for me. From The Daredevils and Warrior it was an easy leap to follow British Invasion creators … Continue reading Fear of Heights
Hammer and Sickle House of Horror
Octobriana Hammer by John R. Short and Andrew Richmond Octobriana is a concept that I have been vaguely aware of for a while. A cheesecake she-dragon who is a kind of communist Vampirella. There is an interesting two page history of the character included in the book. She is a samizdat superheroine, supposedly smuggled from underground groups in the former Soviet Union who were presumably … Continue reading Hammer and Sickle House of Horror
Daredevils and Brawlers
Brawler from Time Bomb Comics The introduction to Brawler describes it as being inspired by a childhood encounter with Warrior – the legendary Quality anthology comic which introduced Marvelman, V for Vendetta and many more. So obviously a blog called Daredevils and Warriors, named for the two great episodic comics of the era could not resist such an offering. Warrior offered a few pages per … Continue reading Daredevils and Brawlers
Work and Progress
This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte It was a beautiful Sunday and I traveled to town to raid the annual gargantuan Christian Aid book sale in one of Edinburgh’s magnificent churches. But turns out that churches are doing other things on a Sunday and they had turned the money changers and change-from-a-fiver givers from the temple. So instead to Stockbridge for the unbearably crowded food … Continue reading Work and Progress
Dream Catcher
But a Dream! by David Robertson David Robertson was kind enough to send me a copy of his new collection But a Dream! This brings together some of David’s unpublished early work from the 1990’s. Like a good librarian David has kept his archives – maybe in some kind of Borgesian pocket dimension or possibly just in a cardboard box. From wherever they came, here … Continue reading Dream Catcher
Spider-Man 544 by Mick Austin
Cover of the Week – Spider Man 544 Mick Austin provided the beautiful painted cover for this issue of Marvel UK’s Spider-Man. Spidey gives up the limelight to Frog-Man and the White Rabbit. Continue reading Spider-Man 544 by Mick Austin
The Upside Down
Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker Another title I picked up from Dunfermline Comic Con 2019 was Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker. I always have a lot of time for creators who use the format to push the boundaries. After all you can’t get a Netflix show that tells two interweaving stories, can be read in reverse and meets in the middle, well maybe … Continue reading The Upside Down
Iron Man by Jerry Paris
Cover of the Week – Captain America issue 53 from Marvel UK, February 1982. Featuring Iron Man by Jerry Paris. Continue reading Iron Man by Jerry Paris
Change Management
Boy Abducted By Aliens Returns by Dave West and Gustavo Vargas Teenage years are difficult. You are growing and changing. Maybe you rebel against your parents, maybe you are desperate to fit in at school, to be just like the cool gang. Peter Thomson certainly did. He wanted to be one of the lads rather than one of their victims. And it turned out that … Continue reading Change Management
Daredevils and Warriors 