I never really got into Hellblazer as a teenager — somewhere in a box I have a few comics from the beginning of its run in the late eighties but I didn’t stick with it. So I’m basically new to the character and its story. Luckily for me all of the DC and Vertigo issues are collected into 22 volumes. As with many of these … Continue reading John Constantine Hellblazer
Preacher is the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon about the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small town of Annville, Texas. The superhero part of it comes from when Custer is possessed by Genesis — the offspring of an Angel and a fallen Devil — and gains the power of “the word of God” which seems to be able to … Continue reading Preacher
I never got around to writing a bookmark post for Y: The Last Man but with the news that FX is going to make a series (probably!) based on it, I want to add something about it to the blog. 10 years after the series wrapped up its run, I read it in the collected version (10 volumes from Vertigo). (I seriously cannot get my … Continue reading Y: The Last Man
Marvel movies and teevee series have become enormous in their scope raising all kinds of questions of how they all fit into a shared universe and more importantly, what order to watch everything in. Luckily others have done all of that work already — CNET, Collider, and Fandom Marvel Wiki all have put together comprehensive lists of the movies, shows and shorts in chronological order. To … Continue reading THE MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE
Every now and then Dave Kellett hits a grand slam (baseball or Denny’s – it’s all good) — today is one of those days. Continue reading Dave Kellett is a National Treasure
Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, is dang good. Just missed this when it came out but glad I grabbed a copy of the collected series. The structure of it is really interesting – -I guess the structure of the story is a bit of a spoiler? but it’s been out since 2011 so I’m not sure it’s a big deal. Every chapter the main … Continue reading Reading Comics! Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
Update in 2018: I haven’t checked back on the site in quite awhile so I have no idea if it was only down for a couple of days or years but hooray, it’s up again and the archives seem to be working well. A little sad to realize ACT-I-VATE Comix is busted. The website – http://activatecomix.com/ – is still there but all of the images … Continue reading 10 Years of ACT-I-VATE Comix
Stumbled on to this new comic (through Piperka.net) which is really well drawn. It’s a bit of a predictable coming-of-age superhero-ish plot but it does have lots of odd touches, including the protagonist barfing up a very big hammer (hence the title) to use in fighting the bad guys. It barely has an archive so it’s a quick read right now and it’s entirely possible … Continue reading Big F*ing Hammer
I ported a good bit of the ComixTALK database from Drupal to WordPress and put it back up on the web. Of course there are numerous broken bits and ragged edges on the thing but it’s nice to have the archives in public again. That project lasted just about ten years and while I am probably not going to jump into writing there right now, now I … Continue reading Comix TALK archives back on the web
Reading a collection of the original Wonder Woman comics and sketching… Continue reading Sketching
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