(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 […]
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