Comics
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview with a Metabaron
I’ve been digging through the archives again. After a seven year wait, the final volume of cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s graphic novel series The Metabarons is getting a long-overdue English language release this week. What follows is an interview I did with Jodorowsky back in 2002 for the much-loved, but sadly no-longer-with-us, comics magazine Borderline. [...]
Japanese Spider-Man
It’s Spider-Man, it’s Japanese and it’s crazy as a shark’s knee: Thanks to Phil for pointing this madness out to me.
Watchmen: Bigger, Louder and Uncut
I went to see Watchmen last night. As a somewhat obsessive fan of the original comic book (alright then, graphic novel), I expected this to be something of a Manichean moviegoing experience. I’d leave the theatre either loving or hating the film, hailing Zack Snyder as a cinematic genius or denouncing him as the New [...]
Re-reading the Watchmen
As you might have already noticed, the Watchmen movie comes out this week. Unlike most online commentators with geekazoid tendancies, I’ll try my best to reserve judgement on the film until I’ve actually seen the damn thing. Whether I end up loving it film or loathing it, at least it’s given me an excuse to [...]
Thor Blimey!
It’s not every day you see an item of news that will excite fans of Marvel Comics, Norse mythology and popular Brummie playwright William “The Bard” Shakespeare. Here’s something from Variety that might: “Kenneth Branagh is negotiating to direct ‘Thor’ the next Marvel Comics property that will be turned into a live-action film by Marvel [...]
Who Watches the… What?
With the hype machine for next year’s Watchmen film already powering up (it was the cover story to last month’s Empire and the trailer is attached to Dark Knight, that bat-themed vigilante flick that’s currently doing the rounds), it’s only a matter of time before non-comics literate friends and affiliates start asking me: “What’s it [...]
Bull$#@% Bulletins
Here’s something else I recently dug out from the archives. If you have no interest in comic books – or, for that matter, low humour – then I strongly suggest you look away now. Some years’ ago, during my ever-so-brief stint as a small-press comics creator, I used to write a page of made-up news [...]
Invincible
Okay, let’s start this with off a pair of disclaimers. Firstly, due to time constraints I’m going to have to knock this out in a bit of a rush. If it appears at all disjointed, misspelt and badly structured it’s possibly due to the excuse that I’m working against the clock. Secondly, although I’m writing [...]
I quite like this one, too…
OK, I’ll stop this now. It’s getting silly. I suspect my geek gland will be working overtime this summer…
Steve Gerber, 1947-2008
I was sorry to hear that Steve Gerber, one of my favourite comic book writers, passed away on Sunday. Gerber was best known as the creator of Marvel Comics’ Howard the Duck. Forget the atrocious George Lucas-produced 80s movie adaptation, Gerber’s HTD was the real deal: a cynical, cigar-chomping, anarchistic antidote to the traditional funny-animal [...]
I found a pair of old Docs…
I watched a couple of vintage documentaries about two of my favourite writers on Ye Olde Interwebs this week that I haven’t seen for bloody years. I guess it says a lot about my particular strain of temperament that [a] I can get genuinely excited about watching vintage documentaries I haven’t seen in bloody years [...]
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