The DC Reboot: new dawn or twilight?

The news that DC will be rebooting its entire superhero line with issue 1s from September has been whizzing through my mind all week. It’s going to have profound ramifications, not just for the DC Universe but for the so-called comics ‘industry’ as a whole. This promises to be DC’s biggest stab of the reset… Continue reading The DC Reboot: new dawn or twilight?

A Beginner’s Guide To Comics: A Response

I had originally written this as a comment to Andrew Hickey’s Beginner’s Guide to Comics, but I thought I would add it here instead. First go away and read his article and then come back to this: Andrew’s is a good list which I would broadly agree with. Jaka’s Story was one of those strips… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide To Comics: A Response

Nine wishes for 2009 #5: Comics I care about

Yoink! These nine wishes for 2009 were meant to be done and dusted by 31 December. Nevertheless, I shall plough on… I’m a geek, to paraphrase Nick Clegg, by temperament, by instinct and by upbringing (the latter is all too true – my dad made me watch Alien when I was 8 FFS! He would… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #5: Comics I care about