James is away at Reading this week, so TSP is left in my hands. Muah hah hah hah hah. It’s a quiet one as a result, but some of our favourite creators - Gillen/McKelvie and Bryan Lee O’Malley - have put excellent and/or teasing things online this week, plus there’s the rather bizarre statement by [...]

It’s a monstrous SDCC special (and because Seb’s back to contribute again) and by christ there’s a lot to talk about. We couldn’t let a nugget of Scott Pilgrim or Phonogram news pass unmentioned. There’s also a little note about Kevin Smith’s Daredevil, IDW’s Ghostbusters, the new Watchmen posters, Mark Millar’s return to the Ultimate Universe [...]

It’s a Bristol Comic Expo special this week, and with James having already done his thing over at CBR, it’s left to yours truly to provide a recap of our weekend. Of course, despite being able to namedrop here and there, we’re hardly Rich Johnston (although we do know him, as well), so don’t expect [...]

“Do you want to review Divided We Stand?” asked James. “Because it’s composed of several stand-alone X-Men stories, it should be quite easy to dip into.”
“Yeah, alright,” says I, little realising how hard it is to adequately cover a 40-page anthology issue within our customary review length. But what the hey. After all, as a [...]

After a third issue stuffed with exposition and plot, the pressure was on writer-artist Jamie McKelvie to satisfactorily wrap up the myriad threads in his first solo mini (though in calling it that, let us not forget Matt Wilson’s invaluable contribution of his colours.) It would’ve been a difficult task even for a more experienced writer [...]

Ed Brubaker’s latest Criminal TPB - Lawless - gets looked at by James, there’s some scary news about the future of Buffy Season 8, a tip about one of comics’ up-and-coming artist offering cut-price commissions, some speculation about just what’s going on with the GL Corps’ new rivals and a little more about Morrison’s Batman.