These books are the cream of the crop - the absolute best in class graphic novels that no serious collector should be without. We liked them so much, we gave them our prestigious maximum overall award of five stars. Graphic novels just don’t get any better than this.
Most of us have done things in our past that we regret. But Moses Stone, a bounty hunter turned sheriff, appears to have rather more skeletons in his closet than most. When an almost mythical bounty hunter called El Diablo stalks into his town and murders a group of men apparently guilty of little more [...]
The third volume in Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets series is nothing short of a triumph of graphic storytelling. The bulk of the book is taken up with a story called Poison River, which tracks some of the defining moments of Luba’s life: the foundation of her relationship with her cousin Ofelia and her stormy [...]
It could probably be argued that the choice of title for this enormous graphic novel was asking for trouble - the project ended up taking Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell 10 years to see it through to fruition. However, it’s actually a reference to one of the letters the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper [...]
If you’ve made it this far through Ennis and Dillon’s epic nine-volume Preacher series, we’re sure you don’t need us to persuade you to purchase this final volume. Featuring the last eight issues of the monthly comic, this book contains Jesse’s showdown with everyone - Cassidy, the Saint of Killers, Herr Starr and God himself.
Naturally [...]
If ever there was a good argument for creating comics as finite series, rather than the never-ending cycle of many superhero titles, Preacher is it. In this penultimate volume Ennis ties up loose ends, leaving only Custer’s showdown with Cassidy, Starr and God left to cover in the final chapter.
Regular readers will be perfectly aware [...]
Some of the volumes that have taken the Preacher series on significant tangents have been disappointing. We’re pleased to report that this absolute corker is not one of them.
In it, we see Jesse Custer coming to terms with the importance of his quest to find his god and the frustration he feels at the climatic [...]
Just when you think Garth Ennis can’t get any more extreme than he has been in the previous books in the Preacher series, War in the Sun pulls out all the stops. You want big guns? Tanks should do the trick. You want more Deliverance-style in-bred redneck nutcases? No problem. You want Herr Starr - [...]
When you take into consideration the fact that the US navy trains dolphins to guard their ships and that scientists have developed ways of controlling the minds of insects, the basic premise behind We3 should come as no surprise. In it, three domestic animals - a dog, a cat and a rabbit - are given [...]
People often talk about comics ‘getting serious’ or ‘growing up’ but the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of comics aren’t brilliant pieces of art or entertainment. This isn’t to put comics down – the same rule can be applied to movies, TV, the theatre, literature and any other consumable entertainment product [...]
Joe Sacco’s Palestine was first published in instalments in the 1990s, to great critical acclaim. Followed by the collected book version in 2001, no-one else had done anything quite like it before - a journalistic account of his travels and interviews through the occupied territory of Palestine, in the illustrated form of a comic. This [...]
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