7 Against Chaos by Harlen Ellison and Paul Chadwick with Ken Steacy (graphic novel review).
In many respects, ‘7 Against Chaos’ is very much a re-working of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ or ‘The Seven Samurai’ plot.
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Amazon jets into the comic-book business.
Amazon are launching Jet City Comics, a new imprint focused on comics and graphic novels. Jet City launches with new
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Do Super-Heroes Pay Their Taxes? an article by: GF Willmetts.
It was the book ‘Superman And Philosophy’ last month that got me pondering on this particular problem of just how
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Green Lantern And Philosophy edited by Jane Dryden and Mark D. White (book review).
Interestingly, ‘Green Lantern And Philosophy’ starts off with the Green Lantern Corps before moving on specifically to that of the
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Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Alfredo Alcala, Rick Veitch & Tom Mandrake (graphic novel review).
John Constantine is the everyman’s hero. In fact, part of his charm comes from the fact he’s a comicbook hero
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Transmetropolitan Vol 3: Year Of The Bastard by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos (graphic novel review).
‘Transmetropolitan’ is a great example of comics at their most gloriously grim, absurdly awesome and fantastically unfiltered. The book is
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Essential Fantastic Four Volume 7 by John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Rich Buckler, Ross Andru, Bob Brown, Dick Ayers, Joe Staton, Gerry Conway, Tony Isabella, Len Wein, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont and Steve Englehart (graphic novel review).
‘Essential Fantastic Four Volume 7’ features stories from Fantastic Four # 138 through to Fantastic Four # 159 with a
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The Simon and Kirby Library – Science Fiction by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and Dave Gibbons (graphic novel review),
‘The Simon and Kirby Library – Science Fiction’ another fine big themed collection of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from
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Constructing Green Lantern: From Page To Screen by Ozzy Inguanzo (book review).
Think what you may about the 2011 film ‘Green Lantern’, one has to admire the designs that went into their
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The Shadow Out Of Time by H.P. Lovecraft and illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard (graphic novel review).
While HP Lovecraft himself had problems writing ‘The Shadow Out Of Time’ and never considered it entirely satisfactory, subsequent critics
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