Category Archives: with pictures

Phonogram #1 (Gillen / McKelvie, Image)

It’s finally here! I’ve been banging on about this comic ever since I read the preview back in May and it’s been sitting there in my subscription, waiting to be purchased and read for most of last month. And it’s bloody good. I admit that any comic which quotes the Best Band In The Entire …

September 6, 2006 – 9:37 am | By tismey | Posted in with pictures | Comments (2)

How I buy comics

Just by way of explanation, really. I have a pull list set up at Comics 24-7. It’s quite a convenient way of buying comics if you don’t have a decent comic shop locally – I email them telling which titles I want to subscribe to, they put them to one side for me, then I …

September 6, 2006 – 8:50 am | By tismey | Posted in with pictures | Comments Off

The Five Fists Of Science

Just finished reading a borrowed copy of ‘The Five Fists Of Science’ by Matt Fraction and Steve Sanders, the “absolutely true – up to a point” story of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla joining forces to battle the evil Edison and Marconi and their captured Yeti.  Unfortunately, it’s nowhere near as fun as it sounds. …

June 27, 2006 – 4:04 pm | By tismey | Posted in with pictures | Comments Off

Scott Pilgrim goodness

Volume 3 of the Scott Pilgrim series (‘Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness’) finally hit the shelves at the end of last month, and lenny’s copy (a belated Christmas pressie) is awaiting her back in Essex. By way of extra Pilgrimy goodness, author Bryan Lee o’Malley has started a kind of Director’s commentary on the …

June 22, 2006 – 7:57 am | By tismey | Posted in Webslinging, with pictures | Comments (1)