Tag Archives: Jordie Bellaire

Spotlight on Slam Bradley

The Dark Knight isn’t the only detective in Batman comics. In fact, having finally read last year’s six-part mini-series Gotham City: Year One, my mind has been on the astounding significance gained by one of the oldest detectives around: Slam … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (30 October 2023)

I tend to use Halloween as a pretext to write a bit about recent horror movies in Gotham Calling. One trend that has been quite prominent this year – in cinema as well as in literature – is the entanglement … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 February 2023)

Just another kickass reminder that comics can be awesome… Guerillas (v3) #5 Black Widow (v8) #3 Maniac of New York: The Bronx is Burning #4

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Neat Marvel comics cashing in on movies

          In the last decades superheroes have successfully broken into film and TV/streaming with impressive results, to the point where we’re now spoiled (i.e. overwhelmed) with productions for all tastes. From a comic book reader perspective, there have been … Continue reading

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Another 12 cool sci-fi short stories

This year there was no entry into Gotham Calling’s winter tradition of spotlighting sci-fi war comics. I’ll compensate with yet another list of short stories that similarly treat science fiction, not so much as a challenging, head-scratching experience, but as … Continue reading

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Another Watchmen sequel

The main reason The Ludocrats was Gotham Calling’s 2020 Book of the Year is that, by the time I did the list, I hadn’t yet read Portrait of a Drunk (a nihilistic piece of ribaldry that lives up to Seinfeld’s motto: … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (12 April 2021)

Your terrifying reminder that comics can be awesome: Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #6 The Spectre (v3) #27 John Constantine Hellblazer #12

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Anatomy of John Constantine Hellblazer #7-8

Throughout 2020, two comic book series consistently had a blast translating Brexit-era chauvinism into supernatural horror. One of them was Kieron Gillen’s, Dan Mora’s, and Tamra Bonvillain’s Once & Future, in which the British past – even the imaginary version … Continue reading

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2020’s books of the year – part 1

A couple of years ago, I started picking a Gotham Calling Book of the Year, spotlighting recently published comics that best engaged with this blog’s passions. To compensate for the lengthy silence, though, this time around I’ll do a longer … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 June 2020)

Among the outrage and chaos, your heart-pumping reminder that comics can be awesome:

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