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I’ve been hearing about Jamie McKelvie’s work for awhile now, namely Suburban Glamour and Phonogram. Having flipped through Phonogram previously, let me start this review off by saying all of Jamie McKelvie’s work should be in full colour, because it is freaking gorgeous.
So here’s the short story: Astrid (the girl on the cover) is actually [...]

A couple of weekends ago I sat down and read my backlog on Ex Machina graphic novels: Smoke, Smoke (vol.5), Power Down (vol.6) and Ex Cathedra (vol.7). Some background: Mitchell Hundred was caught in an explosion and got the “superpower” to speak to machines and went by the name The Great Machine. After he used [...]

After a slow start with Last Son and a stronger arc with Escape From Bizarro World, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank unite to metaphorically blow my mind with Superman and the Legion Of Super-Heroes. A cocktail of my love for team books, a fond affection for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Geoff John’s masterful understanding of [...]

Since coming to Kingston, Amazon has consistently impressed me, leading to increased purchases from them.
Whaddya think? Did I overdo it?
I think I may just miss Amazon most of all when I go home.

Bizarro, a twisted version of Superman, was one of the key characters featured in Superman: Last Son, and this volume continues his story. He kidnaps Pa Kent and flies to “Bizarro World” which is powered by a blue sun, that gives him strange new powers. Superman’s job, of course, is to save his dad. But [...]

I’m not a Superman fan by any means. I could never relate to Clark Kent, and he always seemed to “overpowered” for me. I mean, who can beat Superman?
That said, Geoff Johns has been writing Superman for the last couple of years, and he’s done some amazing things with The Flash, another superhero I could [...]

First of all, if you don’t know who Iron Fist is (and I don’t blame you), here’s his Wikipedia entry. The short story is, he’s a kung fu master with the ability to channel his chi into his fist.
I could tell you all about the background to the story of the Seven Capital Cities Of [...]

I’ve known about Bone for a long time, after all the series ran from 1991 to 2004, and I was reading comics for most of that period. Why I never picked it up, I don’t know. Especially considering it’s won 21 awards and was quoted as being “As sweeping as the “Lord of the Rings” [...]

A blog is supposed to be about me. I realise I share a lot about my passions: books, music, entertainment and comic books/graphic novels, but perhaps not a whole lot about myself. So here’s my first blog post about it.
I consider myself very much a kid of the ’80s and the ’90s. Not just because [...]

Since I posted up details about the party, I’ve gotten numerous requests for the yearly wishlist to go up. So here comes the shameless time of the year, although when you think about it it’s not that shameless. I just have enough mugs and photo frames accumulated from previous year’s birthdays. So something actually useful [...]