A giant “sphinx” is brought into Gotham Central Park by gangsters dressed in golden, bearded, masks. It announces that the “great king of the Nile” has come back from the dead, and that he will be ...

In last week’s instalment of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, we skipped straight to the “violence” part of the equation. This time round, we’re dealing with sex, because sex is always important in this ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2014, it’s the one chapter preview of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, my forever delayed book on Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s best comic, The Filth, to be serialised in five ...

As Sir Tom Jones makes his last stand, let’s remind ourselves of what we’re all losing. Have fun seeing if you can listen long enough to hear Tom rapping!

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The cartooning is best when depicting the space taken up by demands, questions, queasy downturns and flailing spaghetti arms. Somehow, this makes room for Henrich to lay out her thoughts on ...

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The British Comic Awards nominated Cindy & Biscuit are back, and facing their biggest challenge and their darkest hour yet. Something is coming out of the woods, something bad. It’s targeting Cindy at ...

I might have come away from the Thought Bubble comics convention with a terrible hangover and an overwhelming desire to have a proper rummage through the back issue bins, but I can’t say that I came ...

Continuity can be a useful tool. Peri and the Piscon Paradox, by Nev Fountain, is the kind of story that could only be told as Doctor Who, and is probably the best multi-Doctor story ever written. And ...

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Forgive me for the somewhat less than timely review, but fuck me – three issues in this is still a startlingly uninteresting book, from pig (Millar) to lipstick (Quitely) and beyond (???). It should ...