(mild spoilers) Someone on a Discord asked for Must Read the other day. I hate the term. Must Read for what? To know a genre? To fit into a social space (there are lots of interlinked social spaces among the bookish)? To fit a specific taste? Nevertheless, there are titles it makes more sense to […]
(moderate spoilers) One of my favourite mythic cycles is the Ulster Cycle, that often driven by Cú Chulainn. It’s entrancing in its wildness, its ferocity, its tragedy. One of the things that has drawn me to the comic Slaine over the years is the certainty Pat Mills must feel similarly about the Ulster Cycle. Slaine […]
(Some spoilers) Okay, first off, does anyone else have muddled synapses that look at Hellblazer and immediately think of Ozzy bellowing Hellraiser? Maybe while driving cars off cliffs in a computerised version of California? Please say I’m not the only one. In any case, there’s a certain amount of similarity here beyond the names. Hellraiser […]
Evening my fine fantasy folk. Are you in the mood for an Epic Fantasy comic? Something maybe featuring a protagonist akin to a pagan Joan of Arc, or a Queen Medb? Witchcraft and war, swords and schemes, boobies and balls? I hope so, because that’s what I’m here to talk about. Artesia starts on the […]
Welcome to my first comic review of Wyrd & Wonder and what a comic to review. I wish I’d been there when Sandman had been first published. I wish I was a big comics fan so I could tell you what it was like going from superheroes to this twisted landscape. I’ve seen glimpses; there’s […]
We all have types. Funny books. Dark books. Various tropes. Long books. Dragons. One of my various types is the big book. Not physically, but in terms of the ideas, the sense of scale built into it. Books that make me think and go wow. Closely related are books that are batshit insane. In celebration […]
Before I plough on, I’d like to talk about something Bea mentioned in the comments of the last post and that is the quality of the translation. Asterix is fantastic because of its wordplay and when I found out these comics were originally written in a whole other language back as a wee kid, it […]
This is the start of a series of posts about me re-reading Asterix. In case people don’t know, Asterix is a series of comics about a cunning Gaulish warrior in a little village that alone resists Caesar’s army thanks to magic potion and Asterix. It’s very funny and family friendly, with tons of European in-jokes […]
Since people seemed to like reading a lot of short reviews, I’m giving the format another spin. This time the theme is modern fairy tales and Urban Fantasy – an unfair pairing, as the two have some distinct differences in terms of how well the protagonist can understand and face up directly to the legendary […]
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