Tag Archive for 'comics'

MUST… HAVE… CHILDREN

Published
by
Colm
on 13 August, 2008
in Films & TV
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As seen on the delightful Monscooch.

I’m thinking give it 30 years or so, then get this kid and Old Man Bale and lash out The Dark Knight Returns. Magic.

Oh god… in getting that TDKR link, I found out that Frank Miller is writing a prequel called Holy Terror, Batman!

The plot revolves around Batman defending Gotham City from an attack by Al-Qaeda. According to Miller, the comic is a “piece of propaganda” in which Batman “kicks Al-Qaeda’s ass.”

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. It was bad enough when the Joker was hired by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Some ain’t need drugs in order to have strange cares.

Published
by
Colm
on 15 May, 2008
in Books (and the like) and Links
. 3 Comments

I’ve been meaning to wax evangelistic about Achewood for some time now. It is, by an urban kilometre, my favourite webcomic, and probably in my top 10 of favourite anything. Drawn and wrote by a feller named Chris Onstad, it concerns the life and times of a group of cats, stuffed toys, robots and an otter in a fictional Californian suburb.

There’s far more depth to the characters and the storylines than in most webcomics (so much so that Time magazine named Achewood their number one graphic novel of 2007). The writing throughout is livelier than a sack of eels at a ska concert, being a weird mix of white boy hip-hop, tortured poetics and old school English gentleman, and the plots are twisted genius. Witness: Ray Sells His Soul/Ray + Beef Road Trip, The Great Outdoor Fight and, most recently, Roast Beef’s greeting card business.

A+, and so on.