Warren Ellis
Committed: What British Comic Writers Learned from Thatcher
If a cigar can be just a cigar, and not some obvious phallic symbol to be endlessly sucked and played with, then can a superhero ever be just a superhero, or is it always representative of a deeper, more complex need within us?
Committed: Airplane Reading for Funerals
- by Sonia Harris
- in Committed
- 1 Comment
Taking eight flights and traveling something like 14,000 miles in the last two weeks I’ve had some reading time on my hands. Thankfully I had friends with me, including Batwoman, Buffy, Hellblazer, Supergirl, Unwritten, Secret Avengers, and Wolverine. A girlfriend once told me that she loved to fall asleep with a book, it felt like company. [...]
Committed: NYCC (Warren Ellis, Talking Shop, & Photos)
As I write this, I’m slumped on the couch having just returned from New York Comic Convention. This was my second time at NYCC and I can confirm that it is a very different sort of affair from its West Coast counterparts like San Diego International Comic Con. Like New York itself, the convention is [...]
Committed: “Wolverine The Best There Is”, Gluttony (in Moderation)
- by Sonia Harris
- in Committed
- 7 Comments
Gory, silly, funny, violent and a little bit sleazy… Sometimes that’s what I crave from a comic book, and nothing is delivering it for me right now like Wolverine: The Best There Is.
She Has No Head! – Nextwave Agents of AWESOME
Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Warren Ellis (writer). Stuart Immonen (artist). Wade Von Grawbadger (inks). Dave McCraig and Paul Mounts (colors). Marvel. 264 pages. $34.99, softcover edition issues #1-12. So let’s start the year off right with some balls to the wall comics fun, yes? I’ve been talking a lot in this column over the last [...]
Sunday Brunch: 10/24/10
In which Bill says hyperbolic things about a children’s cartoon and invites you on a guided tour of the comics internet (ask for Babs!). DECLARATION OF THE WEEK: DC should only ever hire teenagers to write the Legion of Super-Heroes (sorry, Chris Bird). SHAMELESS PROMOTION DEPARTMENT: A little while ago, I was shanghaied to Australia [...]
Five Great Comics from the Past Few Months
My Box of Comics posts usually arrive fashionably late, but in this instance, the party ended weeks ago and the Box of Comics is still picking out a tie. So let’s give a quick look at the really good stuff, the comics worth praising from the past few lunar cycles. I suspect many of you [...]
She Has No Head! – 10 Webcomics I Love
I have a love/hate thing with webcomics. On the one hand there are some damn fine cartoonists and writers putting out some damn fine comics for free and what could be better than that? On the other hand there are about a zillion webcomics out there that are really really bad and it can be [...]
A review a day: Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead
Steve Pugh goes nutty. What’s not to love?
Thursday Dessert: 3/11/10
Under the cut: Vun, two, tree, tree cool links, ah ah ah ah.
Midnight Snack: 3/3/10
Open your refrigerator, and watch the internet fall out. Links of interest, beneath the cut!
Committed: No Hero and sardines on toast
- by Sonia Harris
- in Committed
- 8 Comments
This weekend I read No Hero, and found out that I have a bit of a problem. About once every decade I get a really disgusting craving (well, disgusting by some people’s standards, judging by their responses.)
Sunday Brunch: 10/4/09
Thrown together at the last minute! Would you have it any other way? QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What’s the best first issue you ever read?
