Katie is the head chef behind Seconds, the best restaurant in town, but she’s already looking towards new pastures and new challenges. All of her friends have moved away, and she’d like to run her own restaurant, rather than work in somebody else’s kitchen. She’s found the perfect place across the river, but the building work is taking far too long and seems to be tied up in a bureaucratic limbo. She also has the ghost of her previous relationship hanging over her head in […]
Broken city and a broken Batman
Broken city revisists the concept of Bruce as the broken Batman. It is a brilliant juxtaposing of the brokeness in Bruce Wayne/Batman and the city. It is in this book as it is in most Batman books: Healing a broken city is part of healing himself; “I’d turn the entire city into my doctor” The murder of an unmarried, pregnant woman starts Bruce on an investigation. The brother, Angel Lupo is involved somehow as is his girlfriend. The brother loved his sister and was overprotective […]
Okay, and?
I’ve read comic books as long as I’ve been able to read, but I’d never be allowed to call myself a “comic book geek”, because the Anglo-American super hero thing remains terra incognita for me, at least for large parts. Whenever I think of changing this, the few decades worth of “canon” seems daunting. Where to even start getting to know these characters and their stories? But last week in the library I decided to just do it: pick a Batman book and read it, […]
A whimsically surreal comic about music and being a freak at school that will appeal to both adults and children alike.
Joey Moonhead is easily distracted. Prone to daydreaming and not particularly interested in day to day life at school, he is very much an ordinary boy… that is, except for the small fact that he has a floating moon for a head. Throughout the day his disembodied head drifts off, leaving the rest of his body to get on with life as he tries to escape the humdrum world around him. The thing that finally wakes him up is the discovery of his parent’s classic […]
An unsettling and creepy selection of macabre short stories with a gothic twist and atmospheric artwork.
Foreboding spirits lurk in the background of these short stories by Emily Carroll. Demons burrow under the skin, a wife seeks revenge from beyond the grave and a young man believes his brother has been replaced by an imposter. These five short gothic stories are fantastically eerie folktales, populated by people consumed by jealousy, fear and loneliness. One of the stories, His Face All Red, first appeared online, and it’s interesting to see it rearranged from its original vertical scrolling incarnation. You can have a read […]
Alexandro Jodorowsky’s Screaming Planet
Alexandro Jodorowsky is a genius, I have no doubt. He’s also absolutely bat sh*t insane. Which leads to some truly intense writing, and even more so vision. Screaming Planet is a set of stories (but for one) created for Metal Hurlant, a French anthology series along the lines of Heavy Metal. The screaming planet of the title is an asteroid from a long ruined planet that streaks through the universe, passing its sorrow to those sentient creatures it feels a kinship with. As […]
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