John Chapman first had the idea for Jonnie Rocket back in 1998. Since then, he has published four Jonnie Rocket books, with more on the way. If you visit the website, you will find that John also does a lot of work ...
Read More »Amazon’s takeover of Comixology and the future of comic books
Amazon has furthered its reputation as the embodiment of the Star Wars Galactic Empire by buying up much-loved digital comics company Comixology. Not two weeks after purchasing the company, Amazon has made fundamental changes to the way the app works – you ...
Read More »Justice League film confirmed
Prize for most underwhelming news announcement ever goes to DC. Today it was confirmed that a Justice League film would be released, directed by Zack Snyder, following the Batman vs. Superman film in 2016. Did anyone really need confirmation about that? ...
Read More »Marvel to publish new Star Lord series – Legendary Star Lord
In advance of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie this summer, Marvel have announced a new series featuring the man of the hour himself, Star Lord! The series titled ‘Legendary Star Lord’ will be written by ‘Higher Earth’ and ‘Avengers A.I’ scribe Sam ...
Read More »Webcomics: From printed comic strips to digital
How many people still read a newspaper every day? What about a magazine? Ok, so if you answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions… how many of you read these things in a physical format? I often read newspaper articles ...
Read More »The Wolf Among Us: You ate a lot of people back in your day
Back in 2012, a little-known indie games publisher won over 90 ‘game of the year’ awards with their episodic series The Walking Dead. Their games follow this same episodic structure and most of their successful releases have been of the ...
Read More »The DC of it all: The television history of DC Comics
DC comics have had a fairly steady presence on TV since the early 1950s. They’ve had both hits and misses, but on the whole, they have managed to build a large fan base for their television endeavours. I recently looked into ...
Read More »Sometimes the best stories are the darkest stories: Locke & Key
I have been trying to read more comic books and graphic novels. Locke & Key is a name that I keep hear coming up – it was included in a number of best of’s last year and is generally received ...
Read More »The battle of the superheroes: Marvel vs. DC
When people think of comic books, they tend to think of DC and Marvel. The big names from the golden age who gave us such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Captain America. For over a decade, ...
Read More »All aboard the Neil Gaiman train
Back in 2010, I was fairly new to Twitter. As always, I was desperately (or cleverly?!) trying to keep up with the modern world. I had heard about this ‘one book one twitter’ book club event taking place; the idea ...
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