This collection appeared in the British comic Toxic in 1991, created by the team of Pat Mills and Tony Skinner, Psychokiller is an action packed Supernatural Black comedy which infuses elements of The Exorcist with The Krays and just a touch of Pat Mills’ Doctor Who days. It’s anarchic and violent but completely infused with Tony and Pat’s […]
Read more "Psychokiller:The Doctor Will See You Now"Evil filtered through the bodies of corrupted man, tendrils of dark energies masquerading as light clinging onto the well-known corporations, the governmental bodies directing them to do the bidding of ancient inter-dimensional Gods. Against these forces, a man trained by the old ways of powerful earthy witchcraft and the modern combat techniques of the territorial […]
Read more "Finn: Eco Warrior, Lover, Cabbie"Carlos Ezquerra – one of the biggest and boldest artists in the comic book genre, a mention of his name brings out strong images of Gun Fights, Sci Fi Vistas – panoramic and dynamic, detailed close up action shots, stern heroes and gruesome villains. He’s been described as one of the most cinematic artists in […]
Read more "Colour like Carlos: Becoming an Art Droid"2000AD is a venerable, trail blazing UK comic anthology magazine which has stayed consistent in it’s quality throughout it’s 40 year history. During the 90’s era there is an assertion that the quality of the scripts dropped slightly, but there were many memorable characters and plots which still kept fans interested. The current publishers Rebellion […]
Read more "2000AD: The Fortieth Birthday Special"Sex, revenge, murder and political coverups – I loved this collection of four narratives revolving around genius hitman Mike Fallon. In The Complete Accident Man there’s page turning glee at how the hits are carried out, it’s one thing to kill hundreds if not thousands during a comic book run – it’s quite another to have […]
Read more "It’s an Accident …Honest: Accident Man"Zombie narratives have been done…quite literally to death, I’m personally tried of the Walking Deads, the George Romero imitations, the Shopping Mall scenarios endlessly trotted out to appeal to the horror audience. In many of these stories there’s gore, guns and a paper thin plotline. Not so with Defoe, Defoe is a complex historical narrative […]
Read more "The Greatest Zombie Hunter: Defoe"2000AD’s ABC Warriors and Nemesis The Warlock exist in the same comic book universe, which makes the two magickal characters Deadlock and Nemesis naturally perfect for a few crossover stories. They are perhaps two of the best characters that Patrick Mills has devised, they portray his anarchic, satirical, irreverent humour and his attitude towards the […]
Read more "Nemesis and Deadlock: A Magickal Partnership"Requiem Volume 2 further fleshes out the character of Heinrich’s backstory, beginning with a visual stunning sequence where we return to the Eastern Front, a sequence of memory which may be drifting through the reborn Heinrich’s mind. A fevered dream born of the obsession and the madness borne equally of love and of hate, Heinrich […]
Read more "Requiem Vol 2: Pirates in the Sky and Vampire Orgies"“I hunt Heroes, I just haven’t found one yet!” With this oft – repeated quip, readers are truly inducted into the world view of the Marshal Law character and indeed it’s writer – Pat Mills himself, there are no heroes present in the ‘superhero’ genre. It’s important to recognise how ground breaking this statement was […]
Read more "30 Years of Marshal Law: Fear and Self Loathing – Critiquing the Comic Industry one Bloody Corpse at a Time!"It’s a bit of a signature theme for Pat Mills, the esteemed author seems to continually create a myriad of crazed religious nutters – all with single minded obsessiveness and zealous pride at the homicidal work they carry out in the name of their petty and vengeful deities. There is of course the omnipresent Torquemada […]
Read more "Torquemada? No! The Redeemer!"
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