Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Welcome to the third of twenty comic book recommendations, aimed at people who need a little help getting started in the medium of sequential art. If that describes you, then make sure you read the intro post A Beginner’s Guide to Comic Books before going...- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Civil War is all around us. The first de facto issue of Marvel Comics summer event Civil War II is less than two weeks away, while Marvel Studio’s latest blockbuster Captain America:Civil War is still doing the rounds at theatres. When you consider Batman vs Superman and...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Comic books are expensive, it’s one of the things that makes the medium so impenetrable to new readers. An average single issue will cost around £2.65 in the UK, (normally between $2.99 and $3.99 in the US) and when you consider that they only...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Last week we talked about DC’s latest creative restructure in DC Comics: Road to Rebirth, which covered the history of DC’s comic reboots and what we can expect to see from them in the next few months. The Rebirth initiative is line-wide, meaning that every book is...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Nearly five years have passed since DC relaunched their entire line of comic books with the New 52, and now we’re staring down the barrel of another line-wide initiative they’re calling Rebirth. Casual comic book readers are no doubt feeling a little confused, and with only...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Welcome to the second in a series of comic book recommendations, designed to help the uninitiated break into this impenetrable medium, and take them from noob to know-it-all. The first five suggestions are fairly short, standalone stories that don’t require any knowledge or pre-reading....
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Marvel’s roadmap for the next three years is pretty much laid out at this point. Aside from any more late retractions (bye bye Black Bolt) we know what movies we’re getting, and we even have a fair idea of what’s going to happen in...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman Welcome to the first in what will be a growing list of comic book reading recommendations, beginning with short runs of one or two volumes, and then expanding into medium-length, and seriously long series that require a bit more commitment. This list is designed to...
- Originally posted by Stuart Kirkman You may have heard of these things; they’re like floppy books with drawings in them. They’re for children and idiots. Pointless really, I mean… just read a normal book you nerd. There have always been misconceptions about comic books, and even though Hollywood turns...
