Batman the annotated adventures the second (tho’ as Botswana Beast has pointed out in our email exchanges, this is more commentary than anything else). In case you’re interested, part the first (for ...

If you don’t know who Marc Singer is then you’ve been doing something wrong. An academic by trade and one of the most rigorous and interesting critical voices to come out of the comics blogosphere, ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2014, it’s the one chapter preview of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, my forever delayed book on Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s best comic, The Filth, to be serialised in five ...

I don’t know if it’s a memory or if it’s a wholly original invention (something I seriously doubt), but whenever I think of Kraven this scene plays out in my mind: STILL POV. CAMERA RESTS ON EMPTY ...

Well now. Some honest to goodness porn. Or is it? In the 1970’s, comedian Peter Cook found himself in a rut. Something of a wunderkind upon leaving university, his career had skyrocketed during the 60 ...

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Yesterday was, as many of you will be aware, the forty-eighth anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who. This means that next year, 2012, is the fiftieth year of Who’s existence. Over the next ...

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Don't let SILENCE go silent! Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die need your generous donations to pay for podcast hosting over the next year. Anything you can spare would be gratefully received.

Written by Warren Ellis, drawn by Butch Guice, inked by Mike Stribling, coloured by Dave Baron, covers by the unforgotten nightmares of the 1980s I struggled to get past the first few pages of this, ...

As previously established, middling superhero comics are so much better when you read them for free from the library, but what about mediocre comics you valued at an earlier age? What about ones that ...

“Have you guys got The Best of Milligan and McCarthy in?” “You know, the big hardback collection of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy comics?” “I mean it’s a bit lazy to ask, sure, but I’ve had a ...