Despite all the crossovers going on, it’s somehow a quiet week for comics. That, to you and me, means that it’s time to take a chance on some new series - and this week, we’re in luck. The first of Paul “Captain Britain” Cornell’s new Fantastic Four miniseries is out, and it is, in technical [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
While Claremont was doing his not entirely horrendous run on Fantastic Four earlier this decade, three companion miniseries came out [...]

Do you like Starman? Do you like Paul Cornell and the Fantastic Four? If so, there’s probably something worth reading in here, I guess. If nothing else, why not come in and read my latest Alternate Cover column? A must for people who like the Buffy and Angel comic, though an even bigger must for [...]

It’s not often I talk about covers, but then it’s not often that I enjoy a cover concept I have on Fantastic Four. The tagline for the title has been “the world’s greatest comic magazine” for years. Now it actually looks like a magazine - a celebrity lifestyle magazine at that, with the story events trailed [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published. 
1 2 3 4 is Grant Morrison’s criminally hard-to-find take on the Fantastic Four, originally published [...]

When a big-name writer/artist team takes over a long-established book, it’s always important to strike a balance between keeping the existing fans happy, but making the series accessible for the spike in new readers that their appointment will bring, in the hope of keeping as many of them as possible. As someone who’s never really [...]