Jack Kirby Collection Seventy-Two (magazine review).
Easily the best thing in this issue of ‘Jack Kirby Collector’ is ‘The Four-Colour War’ by Christopher Irving, an in-depth
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Kirby 100: 100 Top Creators Celebrate Jack Kirby’s Greatest Work (book review)
To celebrate the centennial of Jack Kirby’s birth in 1917, TwoMorrows Publishing asked one hundred stars of comics and animation
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Back Issue #100 October 2017 (magazine review).
‘Back Issue’ has reached its centenary issue and, with a few extra pages, the focus is on the American fanzines,
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Hannah Green And Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (book review).
‘I need a hero. I’m holding out for a hero.’ With apologies to Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler you may
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The Blacker The Ink: Construction Of Black Identity In Comics And Sequential Art edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings (book review).
Just in case you don’t know what ‘The Blacker The Ink’ edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings subject matter
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Batman The Dark Knight: Master Race by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, Klaus Janson and Brad Anderson (graphic novel review)
Now how much to say about the plot of this mammoth book without becoming spoiler. This is some time after
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The Comic Book Film Adaptation by Liam Burke (book review)
Liam Burke’s book, ‘The Comic Book Film Adaptation’, is different to others on the subject I’ve read in recent months
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Doctor Who: Emperor Of The Daleks by Paul Cornell, Dan Abnett and Scott Gray (graphic novel review).
This collection of Seventh Doctor comicstrips from the pages of ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ is centred around an epic Dalek story
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Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson (book review).
When I learnt that Bernie Wrightson had died in March, I decided I really ought to look at some of
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Frank Miller’s Daredevil And The Ends Of Heroism by Paul Young (book review).
I have to confess I wasn’t really sure what to make of Paul Young’s book, ‘Frank Miller’s Daredevil And The
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