Tag Archives: Kieron Gillen

On Dynamite’s James Bond – part 1

After much delay, the latest James Bond movie is finally coming out next week. Hopefully, No Time to Die will bring the kind of super-spy thrills Black Widow kept threatening to deliver but never really did. In fact, aside from … 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 (22 February 2021)

Yep, one more reminder that comics can be awesome… Ex Machina #17 Ninja-K #11 Once & Future #1

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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 5

If you read last weeks’ posts, you know what’s going on. Here are Gotham Calling’s top four books of 2020:   4. WHO KILLED JIMMY OLSEN? The original Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen series (1954-1974), about the wacky misadventures of the … Continue reading

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