Imagine writing and illustrating your own comic book – for it then to be picked up professionally, for it to be a hit and then for Awesome Media for a TV role? That’s exactly what happened to Jay Gunn as the company has optioned Surface Tension. I rather enjoyed Surface Tension. Okay, billions died and […]
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook covers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a name American readers might know from the NBA but as it happens Abdul-Jabbar is a Mycroft Holmes fan and back in 2015, with Anna Waterhouse, he published his first novel Mycroft Holmes. The story about Sherlock’s elder brother currently has 4.5 stars aggregate reviews over on Amazon UK. Now the polymath […]
Billions Dead: A review of Surface Tension
Surface Tension is a graphic novel from Jay Gunn and Titan Comics. Gunn is both the author and illustrator so, straight off the bat, I’m impressed. The comic book picks up on a remote British Island after sea sickness has killed most of the people on the planet. The sea sickness was horrible; it gave […]
Jay Gunn’s Surface Tension gets ready to break
Jay Gunn’s Surface Tension was picked as one of the best mini-series in 2015 by Comic Book Resources. Now Titan Comics has picked up the creator-owned collection and it’s easy to see why the title caused a stir. The 192-paged softcover will be on sale from February 10th. That’s a date where 99% of humanity […]
Titan Comics launch new Vikings series based on TV show
The politics, sword-swinging combat and drama from the TV show Vikings will continue in a new series announced by Titan Comics today. Set within the third season of the show, the Vikings comic books will follow Ragnar Lothbrok and his band of Northmen on a saga worthy series of adventure. The books are written by […]
Witches and Assassins: A review of Assassin’s Creed 1
The new Assassin’s Creed comic is a new Assassin’s Creed line. We feature Charlotte de la Cruz who is a well-educated, geeky, counter-culture, black American woman with a shit job. The comic gets straight to the point; she’s not a middle class white dude. I won’t have a go at writers Anthony Del Col and […]
For chaos and love: A review of Elric Stormbringer
Elric Stormbrnger is the second hardcover graphic novel in the remastered and entirely masterful series from Michael Moorcock. I really enjoyed the first – Elric: The Ruby Throne – and Stormbringer picks up straight away. We’ve an Emperor of a powerful (but not as powerful as they once were) and chaos worshiping set of warriors […]
Chaos is awesome: A review of Elric – The Ruby Throne
“Slender but impressive” – two words which could be used to describe the skull-white, 1000 year old, lord of Melniboné or the latest hardback from Titan Comics. The Ruby Throne is the first in a new comic adaption of the books by Michael Moorcock. I’ve not read any of the Elric of Melniboné books but […]
Underwear and explosions: The Power of Tank Girl review
There’s lots of Tank Girl in this omnibus. We’ve three different stories in a single collection thanks to Alan C Martin, Ashley Wood and Rufus Dayglo. The stories themselves, if you’re a Collector and need to know, are The Gifting, Visions of Booga and The Royal Escape. You might think you always know what you’re […]
Grown up Alice: A review of The Weirding Willows
I’m not sure why but many “grown up Alice in Wonderland” comic books take a certain adult spin on the story. Yes, while it’s true that The Weirding Willows has our grown up Alice wandering around without any trousers on for the opening panels she soon dresses and it is not really that sort of […]
