Category Archives: comics

Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)

2009-02-19 – 11:44:36

Ellis’s Spider Jerusalem is a journalist, based on Hunter S Thompson. At the start he is living in seclusion in a cabin in the mountains, but contractual difficulties drive him back to the city for the first time in five years. Shit happens, and he writes about it. This volume comprises the first three issues [...]

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American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)

2009-01-07 – 23:23:03

I came upon these when I was digging out some old comics for my son. These are not for eleven-year-olds, but I realised I hadn’t read them in years, and I thought I’d see how they had aged (plus, I remembered next to nothing about the story). The story is not bad, but not that [...]

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Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie

2006-08-02 – 17:18:24

The local library is proving a great source of graphic fiction at the moment. Another early-early Moore, one of which I had heard, but had definitely not read. It is Moore’s interpretation of a theme that was then very common, the alien lost on Earth. It wears its debt to ET quite openly: one of […]

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Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

2006-08-01 – 00:28:53

I found this in the local library. I thought I hadn’t read it, but I remember reading the ‘Something something, oranges something’ episode (AKA ‘DR and Quinch go to Hollywood’) back when I was at university in the 80s. I expect they were reprinted by one of the American companies (possibly coloured in?) and I […]

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