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A WEE TREAT FOR YOU HERE TODAY, AS MAID OF NAILS/KELLY KANAYAMA WRESTLES WITH… WELL, WE’LL LET HER TELL YOU! A confession: I am a Strong Female Reader, and I can’t get enough Dicks. To clarify, I ...

Or the day before’s – don’t get all stuck on it. SPOILERS follow, if you’re the kind of person who misguidedly believes in the existence of such a thing. Rest easy folks, The Phoenix is still the best ...

As Sir Tom Jones makes his last stand, let’s remind ourselves of what we’re all losing. Have fun seeing if you can listen long enough to hear Tom rapping!

Batman the annotated adventures the second (tho’ as Botswana Beast has pointed out in our email exchanges, this is more commentary than anything else). In case you’re interested, part the first (for ...

If you don’t know who Marc Singer is then you’ve been doing something wrong. An academic by trade and one of the most rigorous and interesting critical voices to come out of the comics blogosphere, ...

I don’t know if it’s a memory or if it’s a wholly original invention (something I seriously doubt), but whenever I think of Kraven this scene plays out in my mind: STILL POV. CAMERA RESTS ON EMPTY ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2014, it’s the one chapter preview of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, my forever delayed book on Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s best comic, The Filth, to be serialised in five ...

I might have come away from the Thought Bubble comics convention with a terrible hangover and an overwhelming desire to have a proper rummage through the back issue bins, but I can’t say that I came ...

It’s called Marine Man, you can tell that from the cover, and so it owes, or seems to want you to think it owes, a lot to Aquaman, like it’s the 90s and Image-esque pastiches of the DC/Marvel roster ...

“Have you guys got The Best of Milligan and McCarthy in?” “You know, the big hardback collection of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy comics?” “I mean it’s a bit lazy to ask, sure, but I’ve had a ...

Night. A boy lies slumped on the pavement. A car pulls up, the door opens and a red woman calls him over. He gets in. Uno Moralez’s pixel art has an infernal heat. Shorn of deeper narrative context ...