I wholeheartedly enjoy the Spirit: it’s a classic character in a crime-ridden city with a colourful supporting cast, mixing action, drama and comedy in equal measure. DC Comics has recently launched their second iteration of a Spirit ongoing series and…
This is a book that has flown very low on the radar of North American readers; I became aware of it via the excellent Forbidden Planet UK blog, a great spot for European works in English. The Hound Of The…
This is the story of an accidental purchase of a signed and numbered book from the 1980s. I was rummaging among the discount trade paperback section of my local comic shop when I came across Mechanics: A Love & Rockets…
Nothing about this book from the outside interested me in the least. When this collection was published site after comics site sang its praises so I decided to pick up Daytripper from Vertigo. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: What are the…
After thoroughly enjoying Conan Volume 7 I scanned my local comic book shop and found Conan Volume 6: The Hand Of Nergal softcover. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: A mysterious curse lingers, following Conan as he attempts to return to his…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. During the 1990s The Tick from Ben Edlund and New England Comics was the hottest comic property going. The black and white comics were a smash success that led…
I was a faithful fan of Dark Horse’s Conan relaunch with Cary Nord as artist but after he left I drifted away. Came across Conan: Cimmeria or Conan Volume 7, depending on how you interpret the spine and title page…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. I was perusing the new books at my local comic book shop and came across Siege: Embedded in softcover. I noticed it because Chris Samnee had done the art:…
Long-time comics fans will recognize Xenozoic Tales as a long-running black and white story told by Mark Schultz or adapted to the little screen as the animated Cadillacs And Dinosaurs. I had thumbed the various issues and collections but never…