So, the first two parts of this massive project I am undertaking is up for your enjoyment — I hope you’ll all support me and leave me loads of comments to let me know what you think. I have something like a hundred and sixty characters to introduce you to and each story will be [...]
May 7, 2008
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This set of two works collected back-to-back presents two very different types of work which can be read in one sitting and work the palate to a nice effect.
They are both lean just because of the dictates of the format that they were originally produced in and the number of pages that allows the writer [...]
May 2, 2008
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The exploration of violence in these two volumes takes many twists and turns. The first volume struck me as being more grounded but both of them have a resonant emotional core that connects with the reader on a very visceral level.
To say that something is filmic is over-used and perhaps misguided when it comes to [...]
April 28, 2008
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This was the perfect book for someone like me to read — damn, I got every reference in it. Is that something to be worried about? Well, it would be if I were one of the main characters in the book because that is what seemingly marks you out for death at the hands of [...]
April 27, 2008
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Re-imaginings and Batman go hand in hand it seems, as just glancing downwards through the pages of this blog might indicate. This isn’t so much a character overhaul more a significance overhaul by placing Batman within a long line of heroes — a lineage that, given that the titular chalice is the Holy Grail, I [...]
April 27, 2008
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Brought to you by messrs. Brian Augustyn, Michael Mignola, P. Craig Russell, David Hornung.
In places where I have been hanging out in a virtual capacity there has been much discussion of the design of book covers and how this affects the sales but more importantly the perception of the work contained therein. It should be [...]
April 27, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, batman, blogging, book, comic, comics, jack the ripper, mike mignola, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: batman, comic, comics, Comicsphere, gotham by gaslight, jack the ripper, mike mignola, p craig russell, update . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
With the Batman and Judge Dredd team up I complained about the fact that the story was somewhat flimsy and that the great artwork lacked a narrative backbone or drive (well, I intimated that anyway). I like the ideas of these crossovers, hence the number I have bought, but there aren’t many that have really [...]
April 20, 2008
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After reading the first team up between Dredd and Batman it was almost inevitable that I was going to be around for the second one. This one definitely didn’t pack the same punch as Judgment In Gotham though. The premise is fairly simple and fairly similar — to place two iconic figures with different perspectives [...]
April 20, 2008
Categories: 2000ad, Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, artists, batman, blogosphere, book, comic, comics, judge dredd, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: 2000ad, alan grant, batman, comic, comics, Comicsphere, critchlow, john wagner, judge dredd, power, the ultimate riddle . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
What if you’d spent your whole life in a cage, never glimpsing the world outside?
What if everything you knew was darkness, fear and cold, clinical steel?
What if one day, an angel came to you with a message of hope – a message that you were about to be set free?
This is the story of CAGES, [...]
April 16, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, artists, blogging, book, comic, comics, news, sci-fi, science fiction, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: ben templesmith, cages, comics, Comicsphere, dystopian, melanie cook, post-apocalypse, sci-fi, science fiction, xander bennett . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
You always expect Morrison to bring a new spin to a character — to explore realms that others have left untouched, and as usual he delivers just that with a great deal of panache. Here the art by Dave McKean is the perfect vehicle for him to explore the darker recesses of Batman’s mind and [...]
April 16, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, artists, batman, blogging, book, comic, comics, grant morrison, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: arkham, arkham asylum, batman, dave mckean, grant morrison, the joker . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments