By Vance and Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-128-0 Well, I hope you've been paying attention, because we're up to volume 14 now and the revelations and twists keep coming. Despite all the recaps and reminders, it's starting to get a little tricky to keep up, especially when we're dealt yet another hand of everything's […]
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Lucky Luke 32: Rails On The Prairie
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-104-4 This is the first collaboration on Lucky Luke between Morris and his creation and the man that would go on to be one of the most successful comic writers in the business, René Goscinny. Originally published over fifty years ago, this early stab at Luke's adventures is […]
Terribly English
By Rupert Besley Publisher: Souvenir Press ISBN: 978-0-28564-092-4 Cartoonists’ Club member Rupert is no stranger to observing the idiosyncrasies of our nation’s populace through his regular Isle of Wight County Press cartoons and his vast array of postcards. In fact, the Tourist Board recently calculated that so prolific are the latter items that Rupert has […]
Hondo City Law
By Morrison, Wagner, MacNeil, Quitely, Clarke, Googe Publisher: Rebellion ISBN: 978-1-907519-91-8 This is a collection of tales from the world of Judge Dredd, or, to be more precise, the Japanese equivalent of Mega City One where they do things a little differently to their counterparts across the Pacific. Dredd appears, but the focus is instead […]
XIII: Top Secret (vol 13)
By Vance and Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918–121-1 An awful lot has happened in the story of XIII so far, so it's gratifying to see the first two pages of this thirteenth volume turned over to a comprehensive recap of the saga so far (which perhaps works better than the entire recap volume we […]
Good-Bye
By Yoshihiro Tatsumi Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly ISBN: 978-1-77046-078-2 In the world of Japanese manga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi was a pioneer of the craft and is largely over-looked now in the country of his birth where there is a constant focus on the new. Us westerners still have a lot to learn and discover about Japanese […]
