Geek Overture

I like to keep an eye out for any interesting comic images shared on twitter and every now and then I come across some comic gold. The thing is I’m quite bad at sharing these finds myself. So today I thought I’d make a change and start sharing more. Here are my favourite comic-tweet-picks-of-the-week (who [...]

So, DC’s beating Marvel in the visible female character stakes? When the hell did this happen? Sure, DC hasn’t exactly been getting accolades all over the place for retconning Batgirl out of the wheelchair and for pretty much all of the first few issues of Voodoo. However: that doesn’t get Marvel a pass for getting [...]

Hello Frank. Can I call you Frank? I hope so. I feel you have spoken to me through the years through your work. I was hoping to reply to your blog post. Is that okay? Thanks Frank. I knew you’d understand. The great thing about a democracy is that everyone has an opinion. From the workers [...]

Today’s pull list involves more Dark Ages fantasy adventures, a new magic-based superhero and the grimdarkest of X-Men. Demon Knights #3 Madame Xanadu starts off the book with a magic shielding spell that comes at a terrible price and Etrigan is pissed that his girlfriend now looks about 80. Oh, and barbarians are still knocking [...]

And we’re back for another batch of mini-reviews. So, what’s good this week? The answer is pretty much: Animal Man. But you probably already knew that. Stormwatch #3 Stormwatch continues to fight the Moon, Apollo and Midnighter finally teams up with Stormwatch proper to help against this week’s threat to earth. Some great fleshing out [...]

Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, it’s your weekly round up of some new releases in the world of comics. Voodoo #2 DC’s alien stripper superheroine is back for issue #2 and it’s… not quite what I was expecting from issue #1. Now the first issue of Voodoo, I definitely had to agree with Rich Johnston on [...]

I’m going to say it up front: MS Paint Adventures, and in particular the current story, Homestuck, is one of the most interesting pieces of entertainment on the entire webnets. Here is the first panel and one of our heroes, one John Egbert, whose birthday is today. The whole adventure is presented in the form [...]

And we’re back for another roundup of what’s going on with new comic releases this week, this time featuring the redheaded stepchild Robin, Wolverine once again getting his orientalism on and the crossover no one was expecting if they didn’t already know about the Star Trek/Transformers/GI Joe/Ghostbusters/Zombies crossover from early this year. Red Hood and [...]

The greasy, generalisation-generating folks forming the rank and file of webcomics are subject to most of the negative effects of a publication process with no editors and no pressure to produce income. The writing is often uninspired and derivative, the art half-finished and (shudder) copy-pasted. The two-guys-playing-video-games format became so saturated it launched a pretty [...]

The sixth annual New York Comic Con is already well on its way to breaking the 100,000 mark and setting a new record for attendees, so we thought “hey! that’s a bandwagon needs some hopping!” Today we vicariously talk about the things that had we a cape and a gritty origin story we would be [...]