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What Real People Do: On Steve Dillon’s Legacy
The first time I read Preacher, I was 20 years old on the other side of the world. My year abroad at Oxford was coming to an end – and about time, too, because for this socially awkward kid from Hawaii...
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Impersonism: a manifest
I’ve tried to hide from the truth, but wherever I go it finds me… whatever age I might claim to be, right here, right now, I’m an Internet Grampa. As soon as a columnist finishes the first draft of an...
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We all devour down here
Hi, Mr. Morrison! Can I call you Grant? Great. Great. Gotta say, fantastic job getting Happy! on TV and with Pax Americana changing the whole freaking game and everything. Uh, listen. We need to talk....
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Mindless Decade: Finding a Finder
I often find myself being drawn into arguments where I know almost every example of the thing I’m defending is bad yet still feel compelled to argue for what I believe to a worthy principle. “Text...
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Post, Human
(CN: Rape) When the sixth issue of Providence came out we talked about not wanting it in our houses. We made nervy comments about custom raids, then talked about taboos and how sometimes – just...
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Have a Nice Day
On the night our young decade was trying to be born, those trapped in the ritual of havering between TV channels in the UK might have found themselves wondering which century they were in. On one...
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Dreaming of monsters
Like a surprising number of people out there, I’ve been having strange dreams in quarantine. Some are straightforward anxiety dreams – e.g. showing up to some fancy event but only wearing a towel...
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Crossing the Rubicon : Mister Attack at the halfway point of Transformers:...
Despite my seeming full mental breakdown after the first issue of Transformers: Regeneration One, I held on to my sanity well enough to continue buying it on a monthly basis. Didn’t take long for a...
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The Weegie Board presents – C.R.E.A.M. part 1
The Weegie Board will return at the same time next week with the second part of C.R.E.A.M.!
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The Weegie Board presents – C.R.E.A.M. part 2
You can read part 1 of this story here, or if a lifetime spent watching TV shows from other countries has given you a taste for watching seasonal specials months after their initial airing, you...
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GAH-dians More Like (Geddit?)
I’m going to become quite unpopular among my friends, I suspect, when I say that I didn’t like Guardians of the Galaxy very much at all. I didn’t *hate* it — it had an excellent cast, the effects work...
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The Multiversity 1
10:22 PM, I get an email. “New Arrival! BoJack Horseman is now on Netflix” 10:24 PM, I open the comic. The first page on the inside is an advert for BoJack Horseman. It has today’s date on it. Andrew...
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OMAC, What Is Best In Life?
Do you think that he’d even know? I’m not sure. He’s always so busy, isn’t he? The character and the book he starred in are a perfect match that way. I’ve been spending a lot of time round at Kirby’s...
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The Multiversity #1
There’s always a danger in reviewing the first [issue] of anything, of course, said the wise man. Yeah but fuck it mate seriously who cares? There’s your fair warning so. What follows may get silly....
View ArticleNae Bad for a Corridor Wee Corridor Stuffed With Toys: A Sample Dialogue
“Have you guys got The Best of Milligan and McCarthy in?” “…” “You know, the big hardback collection of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy comics?” “…” “Peter Milligan? Guy who wrote Enigma and...
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I Am Not a Comics Critic #1: Shanzhai
SARAH HORROCKS – BRUISE (self-published, 2014) From the cool blue risotone colour to the grey static hiss of the prose, Bruise is heavy on the cyberpunk stylings: The comic itself follows up on that...
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Fight Club 2: A Rebuttal
This comic is a machine, but that’s okay because this is a machine age. Fighting is useless. Fight Club is useless. Give in.
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How to Pass Through a Portal
Here, the map is the territory. This is about to get seriously earnest, adjust your sets… I’ve read Grant Morrison comics from the age of 7, on and off (I was too much of a wimp for 2000AD as a teen...
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Howl
I don’t get to the comic shop as often now as I used to. I still tell myself that I love comics, and superheroes, and I do, deeply. I just… don’t get to the comic shop as often now as I used to. Of...
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Justice: A Joint Effort, Sort Of
AND IT CAME TO PASS that fully paid-up member of women Maid of Nails, deep Dundonian Botswana Beast and comics artist/aesthetic superstar Dan McDaid had many thoughts regarding the Justice League. The...
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