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Roll Of Honour

Category: Comics

Flakey Victory
Comics, Culture, Graphic Novel Reviews, Obsessive behaviour

Flakey Victory

Ice-cream wars and a coastal architectural experiment. Summer reading. Continue reading Flakey Victory

Art Spiegelman: Maus
Comics, Obsessive behaviour

Art Spiegelman: Maus

The cats and the mice and the pigs and the dogs. Continue reading Art Spiegelman: Maus

Wrath Wreaking Wraith
Comics, Culture, Music, Self-indulgent nonsense

Wrath Wreaking Wraith

Snip! Continue reading Wrath Wreaking Wraith

Thank Providence
Comics, Culture, Obsessive behaviour

Thank Providence

Warped, twisted, detestable … 1537! Continue reading Thank Providence

Blacksad
Comics, Culture, Obsessive behaviour, Self-indulgent nonsense

Blacksad

Blacksad (2010) by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, it’s just like someone deliberately set out to make 1537 bait. … Continue reading Blacksad

Più Veloce Pussycat
Comics, Culture

Più Veloce Pussycat

Catwoman: When In Rome by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. Poor Catwoman, not only does she have to slink around … Continue reading Più Veloce Pussycat

Glamour To Fall
Comics, Culture, Self-indulgent nonsense

Glamour To Fall

There’s just something about 1940s Hollywood that I can’t get enough of, maybe it is the glamour juxtaposed with the seediness of … Continue reading Glamour To Fall

Strange Dr
Comics, Culture

Strange Dr

A big thank you again to my uncle Jim who has passed on even more bound copies of 60s and … Continue reading Strange Dr

Sgt Fury’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles, Bob Dylan, Comics, Culture, Self-indulgent nonsense

Sgt Fury’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Last month I was lucky enough to be given another large box full of (mostly) Marvel comics from the 60s, … Continue reading Sgt Fury’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Subversives!
Comics, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Sacred Reich, Thrash, Vinyl

Subversives!

Smart, sarcastic, funny, very political, whiplash fast and tight as a duck’s chuff – how on earth did it take … Continue reading Subversives!

The First Noël
Comics, Culture

The First Noël

What could be more Christmassy than Batman? especially in his morally ambiguous post-Dark Knight reinvention* chasing criminals through the underbelly of … Continue reading The First Noël

Do You Like To Boogie Woogie?
Comics, Dance, Madonna, Music, Pop, Record collecting, Vinyl

Do You Like To Boogie Woogie?

Do you like to boogie woogie? sang Madonna on Music, the pedant in me wanted to say, ‘Yes, I am … Continue reading Do You Like To Boogie Woogie?

Noir Man
Comics, Self-indulgent nonsense

Noir Man

Here’s a goodie, Luke Cage Noir, from the Marvel Noir offshoot released back in 2010.  I love the concept of … Continue reading Noir Man

Ministry Of Space
Comics, Culture, Self-indulgent nonsense

Ministry Of Space

Next stop on my impromptu space week is a brilliant little graphic novel called Ministry Of Space.  Written by Warren Ellis, … Continue reading Ministry Of Space

Nick Fury And The Fish
Comics, Culture

Nick Fury And The Fish

I love music, I love old comics – well dang me, if in the November 1969 issue of Nick Fury … Continue reading Nick Fury And The Fish

Hefty Bags
Comics, Hip Hop, Ice-T, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Hefty Bags

Now y’all may know me as a suave, immaculately attired, gentleman reviewer, peruser of the finer, more cultured things in life, … Continue reading Hefty Bags

Che Che Rider
Comics, Culture

Che Che Rider

I always had a bit of a man-crush on Che Guevara, since way before I knew who he was properly … Continue reading Che Che Rider

He Ain’t No Gentleman Jim
60's, Bob Dylan, Comics, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

He Ain’t No Gentleman Jim

Here’s one of my Christmas presents from my folks a couple of years ago, Bob Dylan Revisited: 13 Graphic Interpretations … Continue reading He Ain’t No Gentleman Jim

Box Office Poison
Comics, Culture

Box Office Poison

With the very best books I find I get sad when I’m only a few pages from the end because … Continue reading Box Office Poison

Farewell My Looney
Comics, Culture

Farewell My Looney

Clever, literate, funny, beautifully drawn – all adjectives which could be applied to me, well almost but you would be far … Continue reading Farewell My Looney

The Vapors Of Mortality
Comics

The Vapors Of Mortality

I’m reading a lot of comics again at the moment, lots of pictures not much text suits my brain down … Continue reading The Vapors Of Mortality

Splunch!
Comics

Splunch!

(Btw. click on any of the above to view in full glory) This is the life, reading comics outside in … Continue reading Splunch!

I Am General Sodom
Comics, Self-indulgent nonsense

I Am General Sodom

Comics time again gentlefolk and there were some mean things bubbling under at DC Comics circa 1973.  The meanest mean … Continue reading I Am General Sodom

Stimulating Zonk & Zap
Comics

Stimulating Zonk & Zap

More comics, this time from 1970 dating back to Jack Kirby’s defection from marvel to DC and his work on … Continue reading Stimulating Zonk & Zap

Crom’s Bones, Man!
Comics

Crom’s Bones, Man!

As Mrs 1537 has commandeered the stereo to selfishly play her own music this evening, somehow forgetting the fact that … Continue reading Crom’s Bones, Man!

She’s … She’s Monstrous!
Comics

She’s … She’s Monstrous!

One thing I’ve really enjoyed about all the old Marvel comics I’ve got my hands on recently isn’t necessarily the … Continue reading She’s … She’s Monstrous!

1537 vs. Silence
Comics

1537 vs. Silence

Hola! Having been given a wheel barrow full of 60s and early 70s by my favourite uncle last Saturday, my … Continue reading 1537 vs. Silence

1537 vs. Australia
2013, Comics, Rugby

1537 vs. Australia

No records here, just me and mine with a bit of comics and rugby thrown in, so you may wish … Continue reading 1537 vs. Australia

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