The Sandman – Season One

Twenty something years ago, when I first discovered Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic series, it seemed widely believed that, despite the success of the early Batman films along with the likes of Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man, this was one ‘graphic novel’ that was unlikely to ever make it to the screen. While this wasn’t because...

Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson

Well that was a slog... I can’t think of any other way to start this review of Doomsday Clock, the DC Comics universe and Watchmen mash-up from Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (originally published between 2017 and 2019) than that as it has taken me several false starts and a worrying amount of...

V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

After recently rereading Watchmen I had the urge to go back to another seminal work of Alan Moore’s from the same era, his collaboration with artist David Lloyd, V For Vendetta. While the image of lead ‘hero’ V’s mask has become world famous thanks to the Anonymous hacking group it remains a striking image here...

Watchmen (HBO TV series)

The translation of any Alan Moore related work to the screen has become a subject for concern as, while V For Vendetta and Zack Snyder’s film of Watchmen are at least serviceable, the likes of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell have led Moore to remove himself entirely from the process. So, when...

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

In the past I’ve written here about Zack Snyder’s 2009 movie adaptation of Watchmen but, after watching the ‘ultimate cut’ of that recently I thought it was a good opportunity go back to the source, the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (and John Higgins) comic from the mid-1980s, once again. Not wanting to judge a...

The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

When Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá released the first series of The Umbrella Academy in the mid-2000s it felt like a refreshingly fun and irreverent take on the superhero genre as it detailed the lives of a familial (sort of) team of heroes while focusing as much on their problems with one another as it...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Ultimate Collection: Volume 1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

For anyone of a similar age to me it's fairly likely that at some point in your childhood you encountered at least some of the many action figure based cartoon TV series that had their heyday in the mid-80s to the mid-90s; from He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe to Thundercats and Transformers. One...

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Anyone who's been into a comic shop or looked at the 'graphic novel' section of a regular bookshop can't fail to have noticed, standing out somewhat from the usual comic book fare, Art Spiegelman's Maus with it stylised 'cat-swastika' and pair of impoverished looking mice on the cover. As a regular reader of comics Maus...

The Death of Stalin (aka La Mort De Staline) by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin

A little while ago I posted a review of Armando Ianucci's satirical movie The Death Of Stalin that continued his run of political comedies from The Thick Of It, In The Loop and Veet by taking the events surrounding the death of the second leader of the USSR and using it highlight the absurdity of...

Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello and John Romita Jr

Back in the mid to late 1980s Frank Miller was one of the men credited with breaking the mould of comic book convention. His Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One along with the likes of Alan Moore's Watchmen and Neil Gaiman's Sandman changed not just how superhero comics were written but how they were...