Tag: Titan Books
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Peter Cushing: A Life in Film Out April
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David Miller’s Peter Cushing: A Life in Film is the definitive account of Cushing’s remarkable career published to coincide with the centenary of his birth.
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Millar & McNiven’s Nemesis TPB Review
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2011, Icon Comics/Titan Books Script: Mark Millar Art: Steve McNiven Colours: Dave McCaig The Mark Millar hype train continues with Nemesis, a series which turns the Batman mythos on its head and supposes that an orphaned billionaire with revenge issues uses his wealth to become the fastest, fittest, smartest costumed villain in the world. At…
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The Boys vol 7: The Innocents TPB Review
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2010, Dynamite/Titan Books Story: Garth Ennis Art: Darick Robertson, Russ Braun, John Macrea, Keith Burns Colours: Tony Avina Seven volumes into The Boys and we’ve witnessed buggery, paedophilia, infanticide and more full-frontal nudity than you can furiously shake a rolled up Daily Mail at. Volume 7, ‘The Innocents’, is far lighter in tone than previous…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 3
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Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2 Garth Ennis dials the gross out meter up to 11 in Volume Five: Herogasm, in which we discover exactly what goes on in those superhero crossovers which have plagued comics for decades. In this case, Earth’s greatest heroes ostensibly depart for a war with the…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2
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Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1 So far The Boys has been a mixed bag of superhero conspiracy theory, toilet humour and extreme ultraviolence. With Volume Three: Good for the Soul, Ennis takes a breather, letting The Legend fill Hughie in on the Ennis’s intricate back-story. This couldn’t have come sooner,…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1
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Welcome to Comic Book Cramathon, the first (and hopefully not the last) in a series I’ll be sporadically running. The basic challenge I’m setting for myself is to review a series within a week; be it a series I overlooked, underappreciated or completely misunderstood during its early years, or a run that I’ve been buying…
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Lenore: Cooties TPB Review
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2010, Titan Books Written and illustrated by Roman Dirge Cooties is the third hardback outing for Lenore, a quirky gothic minx who’s featured in a regular comic series and several animated shorts, and seems destined to grace black T-shirts for many years to come. Collecting the final third of the original Slave Labor Graphics run…
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Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies! Review
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2010, Wildstorm/Titan Books Story: Ian Edginton Art: Davide Fabbri, Tom Mandrake Colours: Carrie Strachan Yet another entry built from the “classic fiction + zombies = junk culture irony” formula, Victorian Undead takes the world’s greatest detective and – if the superfluous “Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies!” does not already made it clear enough – pits him…