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Review: A Cultural History of the Punisher

Hank Kennedy — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:25:22 +0000

Kent Worcester’s A Cultural History of the Punisher (2023, Intellect Books) was an interesting book to review, seeing as I am thanked in the preface as a “friend and scholar.” I’ll cop to being a… [more]

Judge Dredd and the Rise of the Police State

Douglas Rasmussen — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:00:20 +0000

The dystopian science fiction film Dredd (2012), starring Karl Urban as the titular Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as his rookie-in-training Psi Judge Anderson, adapts the popular British comic strip character originally serialized in 2000AD… [more]

On Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition, by Pat Mills & Kevin O’Neill

Colin Smith — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:00:27 +0000

Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition, by Pat Mills & Kevin O’Neill" title="On Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition, by Pat Mills & Kevin O’Neill" style="float:left;" />There’s no better advert for the costumed crimefighter comic than Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s Marshal Law. Acclaimed for its superhero-loathing vitriol, it’s also the proof of how malleable and vital the genre can be. In… [more]

On Charley’s War, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun (1979-80)

Colin Smith — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:00:07 +0000

Charley’s War, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun (1979-80)" title="On Charley’s War, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun (1979-80)" style="float:left;" />You have to be careful what chapter of Charley’s War you pick to introduce yourself to the strip. It’s all too easy to stumble upon a three- or four-page episode that, at first, seems to… [more]

Why are British Writers so Popular?

Henry Northmore — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:24:14 +0000

It is something that has always interested me as a British reader, and something I briefly touched on in my previous column; comics are a quintessentially American art form, so how come so many of… [more]

The Evolution of a UK Comic Fan

Henry Northmore — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:15:13 +0000

Over here in the UK, comics aren’t as enmeshed in our psyche as our US counterparts’. For us, comics all began with The Beano and Dandy, with Dennis the Menace (not that one, ours was… [more]