Comic books

John Romita Jr makes me not hate the new Iron Man armour as much

I know this seems to be an Iron Man themed end of week with three Iron Man themed posts in a row, which of course isn’t that out of place here.
But I saw some images of the new Iron Man armour as featured in the upcoming post-Siege Avengers series and I’m warming to the idea. [...]

Five comic book discoveries for 2009

Comic book Thursday* has become firmly ingrained into my weekly schedule, often the promise of new funny books on a Thursday will get me through Tuesday and Wednesday and even the overflow might make Friday bearable. I think this year though really cemented the weekly event for me and I’ve been branching out in the types [...]

Comic book treasure at the second hand shop

A couple of weeks back Tracey and I went to do a little second hand store shopping and unearthed some real bargains. We actually only even went in because there was a privacy screen in the window that Tracey spotted and she’s been after one for ages.
Whilst in there I couldn’t resist going down to [...]

The Adventures of Tintin: a journey

When I was growing up you were either an Asterix the Gaul person or a The Adventures of Tintin reader.
They were the only comic books on the shelves in the school library (in several schools that I attended I might add) and thanks to their size and occasional hard cover status they were acceptable as literature for some [...]

Comic book Thursday

The past two weeks have been quite barren for weekly comics that I’m interested in so it is encouraging to see a longer list of titles that I’m picking up tomorrow. Although it must be said that there is at least one series that is getting one last chance to impress me or I’m dropping [...]