World Comic Book Review

29th April 2024

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files (review)—“Under house arrest awaiting a sentence”

Author: John Wagner et al. Artist: Brian Bolland, Ian Gibson, Andrew Currie et al. Rebellion / 2000AD, 2022 UNTETHER THE HOUNDS of justice. In younger years I was wary of police and would never have warmed up to a strip hero like super-cop JUDGE DREDD then dominating headlines in the UK and Commonwealth countries and … Read more

Monroe and Murphy #1 (review) —“He needs a heart to hang onto”

Writer: Stephen Peeples Art: Nicolò Arcuti Independent, 2022 FRIENDS ARE SOMETIMES a big mystery, like a different species. Sometimes in a floating world they actually are a different species. The first issue of newly released independent strip MONROE & MURPHY gives us a fox boss, a tiger husband, a koala sidekick, and other creatures surrounding … Read more

Fables (review)—“Fairies can take anything you dish out”

Created by Bill Willingham Art: Mark Buckingham + a Wonderland of Artists Vertigo Comics, ONCE UPON A TIME in the early 1990s, William Willingham produced whole comic books himself in black and white with a fine pencil, a fabulous imagination, and a rare wit. Issues of Ironwood and Coventry were one-of-a-kind classics before FABLES launched … Read more

Angel (review)—“Get behind me I’ll take the hit”

Story: Bryan Edward Hill Art: Gleb Melnikov, Gabriel Cassata Boom! Studios, 2019 ONE CREATES AND ONE COPIES, like seed to seedling  or student grasshoppers learning to chirp. Vampires copy, too, just like you having kids, each imperfectly, due to intercourse mixing genes according to taste. Artists copy and writers copy as anyone who talks copies, … Read more