Being A Superhero May Be Bad For Your Health But It’s Totally KICK ASS!

The last time I had anticipated a movie so much was back in 2008 when Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight hit cinema screens with an unrelenting, unapologetic thwack. Now, I never deluded myself into thinking that another hero action flick of Dark Knight standard was going to fall off the shelves of a Hollywood studio anytime soon but Matthew Vaughn’s KICK-ASS really had me interested. I must be honest, I have never read the KICK-ASS comics and was indeed entirely oblivious to the concept until Summer of last year and even then I scoffed at the concept of Nick Cage in a faux Batman role and imagined a re-telling of the under-rated 1999 movie Mystery Men but the more I heard about the tone of the movie, the outlook, then the posters I was hooked. “Okay you cunts… lets see what you can do now!”

Fantasy Bazaar No.1 - Y: The Last Man

Right, here’s the blurb. From next week, I’m going to be alternating Infected and a new column called Fantasy Bazaar every second week. Next Wed, I’ll post Fantasy Bazaar No.2, the following Wed Infected and so on… Fantasy Bazaar* is going to be a fort-nightly comics column, focusing on Graphic Novels. Every fortnight, we’ll be reviewing a favourite Graphic Novel or Comic Book Series of ours from the past or present, hopefully converting a few people to the medium of the Graphic Novel in the process. Fantasy Bazaar No.1 Y: The Last Man There are so many post-apocalyptic novels, comics, movies and games these days, that it’s hard to even begin to distinguish one from another at times. With natural disasters and Zombies being the most common theme throughout the majority of this work, it’s very refreshing when a comic like Y: The Last Man (Y:TLM) comes along. It beganin … There’s more

Comics on your iPhone / iPod Touch

Comics are coming to the iPhone thanks to a new venture by Crispy Comics. From the About page of the site, the founders say: Crispy Comics is a new mobile-only publishing company devoted to producing comic books, art books, and other content that revolves around sequential art and pop culture. Casey Lau and Jeff Kwan are long-time collaborators who had their paper-comic career come and go in 1998 with Oktomica Entertainment. The two then jumped into the web with flash animated comics and now here they go again with mobile comics. ….it really just comes down to a medium where we can get our ideas out to the widest number of people in the most immediate way possible. Whether you’re riding the bus, waiting for a friend, or out at a party where no one is really that interesting — you can pull out your mobile device and let us take you … There’s more