Blogs about: British Superheroes
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Fly the flag proudly, son!
Rereading Big Dave by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Steve Parkhouse, Anthony Williams and Gina Hart. Superheroes came too late for Britain. In the Golden Age, the 1930s, we were going through an undec… more →
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Fly the flag proudly, son!
wrote 6 months ago: Rereading Big Dave by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Steve Parkhouse, Anthony Williams and Gina Hart. … more →
Kill all the superheroes
wrote 6 months ago: Rereading Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. In a way, we were quite lucky with Captain … more →
Let us share our insane juices
wrote 6 months ago: Rereading Paradax by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy. In every medium there are pieces of art i … more →
What it's like for real people
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wrote 7 months ago: Rereading New Statesmen Epilogue and Prologue by John Smith, Sean Phillips and Jim Baikie. There was … more →
A headful of loose change
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wrote 7 months ago: Rereading New Statesmen chapters 7-12 by John Smith, Jim Baikie and Duncan Fegredo. Comics have nev … more →
A big gaudy picturebook
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wrote 7 months ago: Rereading New Statesmen chapters 1-6 by John Smith, Jim Baikie and Sean Phillips. Things that were h … more →
How photogenic we all were
wrote 7 months ago: Rereading zzzzenith.com by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. There should have been a Zenith Phase … more →
Look what you made
wrote 8 months ago: Rereading Zenith Phase IV by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. Alan Moore’s influence on Grant … more →
I blogged from another universe
wrote 8 months ago: A guest post I wrote for Bob Temuka’s fine comics blog The Tearoom of Despair has been publish … more →
The badness of it
wrote 8 months ago: Rereading Zenith Phase III by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. In the toy cupboard at my mother’s h … more →
Fantastic and terrifying visions are illusory
wrote 9 months ago: Rereading Zenith Phase II, by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. Trying to recall exactly what we mea … more →
Volume is crucial
wrote 9 months ago: Rereading Zenith Phase I by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. Superhero comics beg a question: what … more →
What do you think of our brave new world?
wrote 9 months ago: Rereading Miracleman Book Five by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham. Throughout Book Four there was a … more →
Perfection isn’t anything
wrote 10 months ago: Rereading Miracleman Book Four, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham. One of the more frequent critici … more →
The view from Olympus
wrote 10 months ago: Rereading Miracleman Book Three by Alan Moore and John Totleben. Marvelman and V for Vendetta were o … more →
The careless and foggy continuum
wrote 10 months ago: Rereading Marvelman Book Two by Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Chuck Beckum, Rick Veitch, John Ridgway, and … more →
Why didn’t we realise what they were doing to our lives?
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wrote 11 months ago: Rereading Marvelman/Miracleman Book One by Alan Moore, Garry Leach and Alan Davis. Writing about th … more →
Faster than a Speeding Bullet...
wrote 1 year ago: When you think “superhero”, admit it, you think American. Superman, Spider-man, Batman … more →
The First Cut is the Deepest
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wrote 4 years ago: I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m relatively new to this whole comics thing. I … more →
