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*Charlie Parker* · 30th August 2007, 12:53pm

Would people be interested in reviews of comics on the site? Regular news?

Stew · 30th August 2007, 12:54pm

Reviews, sure.

News, not so much - everyone with an interest in comics no doubt subscribes to on-line news providers etc already.

Dario · 30th August 2007, 12:56pm

I'd say it's a damn good idea...

*Charlie Parker* · 30th August 2007, 1:16pm

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Originally Posted by Stew

News, not so much - everyone with an interest in comics no doubt subscribes to on-line news providers etc already.

True but I'd probably not venture beyond silly little nuggets like Gene Simmons

Posh · 30th August 2007, 4:45pm

Reviews definitely, and news would be good for snide thread replies slagging everything the big two put out, so yeah, probably...

MarkMono · 30th August 2007, 8:30pm

I just normally stick up my reviews (And fervently-foaming-at-the-mouth recommendations) as threads in comics, but I've said for a while that more folk should do reviews.

Reminding me about the existence of Dominatrix does not count by the way.

*Charlie Parker* · 31st August 2007, 8:22am

Reviews ahoy

XMachina · 10th October 2007, 8:07pm

How's this getting on btw? I've read quite a bit of stuff that I'd like to comment on. I take it a reviews thread would include spoilers.

wingwalker · 10th October 2007, 8:28pm

Yes, I'd read them.

XMachina · 10th October 2007, 8:29pm

Right, i'm reviewing the Punisher TPB I read earlier on the day

XMachina · 10th October 2007, 8:56pm

Spoiler free I think.

Punisher: Barracuda (issues 31-36)
Written Garth Ennis
Pencilled by Goran Parlov
Marvel Max

This is the first Marvel Max Trade I read. Being A vertigo snob, I was initially unencouraged by Marvel’s failure to experiment with their imprint for mature readers and pretty much wrote off any Marvel brand that didn’t have an X in the title after the disaster that was Epic a few years back. Judgemental as I am, I gave the Punisher a chance because I thought if there’s one marvel character whose book would benefit from swearing, shagging and graphic bodily mutilation (not simultaneously) more than Dazzler it was the Punisher. I was curious when I read the blurb of Barracuda which tells us that in the crosshair this week is “a band of corporate scum”(Rich coming from Marvel, mibbe their filler guy has a sense of humour) Set around Florida, I equated this to Frank Castle goes to Vice City. It may not have VROCK or Lance Vance but it’s hard to see how the formula can go wrong. True to form the action shifts from NY to Florida soon enough and Frank Castle is going toe to toe with a baddie by the name of Barracuda who thankfully isn’t an enemy of Sub-Mariner and is involved in some typically Ennis style confrontations.
Garth Ennis is a writer that I do have to be in the mood for. Being a veteran of the Preacher and Authority: Kev series, it’s just as well I was in the mood for some witty quips and poor bastards getting mutilated in increasingly imaginative and hilarious ways because that’s what you get. This book delivers that much. I can’t say I was bowled over by the artwork but none of it was what you’d call off putting. There’s a tendency for editors to pair Ennis off with Steve Dillon style pencillers and it may not be audacious but it certainly pays off.
While it’s what’s inside that counts Tim Bradstreets covers deserve a special mention. If you haven’t seen them yet then you’re in for a treat. I like everything about them: the proportions, the shading, the textures, the colouring, the whole shebang. For me at least, Bradstreet’s iterpretation of the punisher is he definitive one.
All in all it’s fair to say I enjoyed Barracuda. I wasn’t expecting a prosaic masterwork like Maus or The Sandman which is just as well as it was never on the menu. What was on offer and what you get instead is Punisher: vice City with no time wasted looking for secret packages or insane jumps.

*Charlie Parker* · 11th October 2007, 8:28am

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Originally Posted by XMachina

How's this getting on btw? I've read quite a bit of stuff that I'd like to comment on. I take it a reviews thread would include spoilers.

Alas The postal problems have delayed me getting material, all in all I should have everything going by Saturday. I want to amass enough stuff that it's regular and not my usual dribble then nothing for ages.

*Charlie Parker* · 24th October 2007, 10:14am

Reviews will now be appearing on the frontpage on a regular basis. Any submissons can go up via the book review forum.

*Charlie Parker* · 2nd June 2008, 11:18am

Couple of reviews every week from now on, to be found in book review sub forum

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