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God, I love Planetary. As I write this, it is my favourite series. Warren Ellis is my favourite writer. John Cassaday is my favourite penciller. Jesus, Laura Martin is my favourite colourist (have I ever had a favourite colourist before?). I mentioned somewhere before that I don’t collect comic books; I prefer to wait for [...] Alas, poor Yorick… or maybe not. Yorick, the titular “Y” in Y: The Last Man, is stunningly lucky. One day, in a single moment, all mammals with a Y chromosome (the other titular “Y”) spontaneously, and with much vomiting of blood, keel over and die. All except Yorick and Ampersand, the male capuchin helper monkey [...] Tranquility, USA. A quiet, “neighborly” town, in California. Quite like most other small, American towns, I would imagine, with one small twist: Tranquility is where, 50 years ago, The Liberty Squad decided to settle down and retire, creating a town in which ex-heroes and villains could spend their remaining days in peace. Welcome To [...] The Boys: The Name of the Game by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson was the second graphic novel that we discussed at our book club – not that the discussion went on particularly long. The three of us were unanimous in our opinion that The Boys, while mildly interesting, was ultimately disappointing. The Sandman is, justifiably, one of the most famous comic series. Written by Neil Gaiman, it is, along with Watchmen, one of those series that even non-comic readers might have actually heard about (if you don’t count naive answers like, “Batman” or “Spiderman” as comic book series). The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes is where this [...] Batman: False Faces is a collection of stories written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by various artists. The stories are chosen for their theme, “Identity,” and were written in 2000, 2001 and 2003, during Vaughan’s early period of comic book writing, i.e. pre- “Pride of Baghdad” and “Y: The Last Man.” |
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