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December 22, 2011 10:25 am Myown experience of Tintin goes back to around the age of 6 or 7 as it was the only real graphic type book you could get from the library (along with Asterix), so I entered the movie with some trepidation particularly as I'd have to agree this style of moviemaking has never worked. Always gives the actors a kind of deadness in the eyes. I thought it struck just the perfect balance between love of the source and delivering a movie with enough relentless momentum that it could carry modern audiences with it. And my 9 yr old has never been convinced to crack open a Tintin book but loved every second (unlike Hugo which the little philistine says he really didn't like at all!)

December 19, 2011 3:57 pm A great week of comics catching up after several quiet ones.....a great year to have Christmas week off work. Batman and Batman Inc lead the pack without doubt...and a festive looking Daredevil. BQ: I haven't gone as long as some of the folks above, but most weeks I end up forgoing the equivalent of at least a night's sleep...that just comes with the irregularity of shift work...

December 13, 2011 4:51 am Back on form, a nice healthy stack this week. Some Bat-goodness from DC, that Nightly News super-awesome HC, Severed and all sorts of others... BQ: Maybe the Bunk, greatest natural po-lice to grace the small screen. Mind you, I always liked Scheider in The French Connection, so maybe I'd go 70s.

November 28, 2011 3:11 pm Wow, really slow week, and yet I feel there is loads of stuff that is late to be released. Still, there's always Daredevil, new Thunder Agents, Wolverine, Uncanny and FF to keep me warm. And a new Rasl trade. BQ: No, unfortunately not...and I still can't believe we have to wait for the Muppets til February here in the UK. At least a Christmas release would have made a degree of sense...grrr...

November 21, 2011 4:04 pm Good week, double dipping on Black Mirror and that gorgeous Parker Martini Edition. Fantastic Four 600, Wolvie and the X-Men, DMZ, Shade, Scalped, Flash and Captain America/Bucky. Plenty to be plenty excited for...but never would have thought I'd see I, Vampire top the chart like that...one for the trade, me thinks. BQ: Not here in the UK I'm afraid...but just to answer I will be working, working and working.

November 11, 2011 12:45 pm Out of the Past, El Dorado, The Yakuza, Farewell My Lovely and, probably my absolute favourite of the lot, The Friends of Eddie Coyle...

November 7, 2011 2:56 pm Slower week, but jazzed for more Ultimate Spider-Man, Batwoman, X-Force and Wolverine. Also getting New Avengers, Rachel Rising, Batgirl, Batman and Robin. BQ: Here in the Uk, right now, we got nothin', nothin'! I have bought and started the third season of Breaking Bad since no UK channel has picked up the rights and also the first two Community sets. I do hear good things about Homeland tho'.

November 4, 2011 2:35 pm well, I wasn't disappointed when I read the book as it was exactly the story I knew it would be. I bought it for the art, and I'm afraid I still love his style, always have. I do miss the old Janson inked days, which I feel were more positively influenced by manga and cinema, but I do admire the boldness of the new stuff, the dirtiness and the immediacy. The story and script, however, were unbelievably offensive. More worrying though was how childish and immature it was, how lacking in global awareness. And just to make matters worse I was reading it in the view of the man's great works, the Batmans, the Daredevil run, Elektra Lives Again, Martha Washington et al. Works of originality that also often carried a great line in (often leftist) satire. However fascistic his Batman sometimes behaved, DKR actually portrays him as a rebel set against an incredibly right wing, conservative government. And as for the anti-war stance of Martha Washington... Luckily it wasn't the most expensive book, and it certainly had me hooked in that car crash way. I'll keep reading the man's work in hope that he'll rediscover the talent he shared in books like Year One and Man Without Fear. I just won't ever be holding my breath.

October 31, 2011 5:18 pm It's that great week one dc combo of Action, Animal man and Swampy. Also loving the craziness of Avengers '59 and Moon Knight. And finally Infinite vacation. Also liking the look of uncanny, and American Vampire doesn't know how to be bad. Bq There was no Halloween in my part of the uk as a boy. Now it's taken off. If I had to choose I'd go for anything made of chocolate, usually cadburys, and hate liquorice.

October 24, 2011 4:11 pm Great week to be an Aaron fan which I certainly am. Also double bill of fun in the shape of dd and flash. Loads of other great books. Should be sweet. Bq : 34, and feeling every bit of it right now.