50-Word (Comic) Review- Red Thorn #1- If Kurt Cobain were alive today he would be 48-years-old

Writer: David Baillie
Artist: Meghan Hetrick
Publisher: Vertigo (DC)
Released: 18th November 2015 (not 1994)



Halfway through and it’s annoying the heck out of me. The characters are douchebags, nothing is believable, and the references are early 1990’s bands. Yuck, I don’t want to read about unbelievable, unlikeable asses. Why are comic book writers still stuck in 1993? Will I read the entire issue? No.



Rating: 2/10

I was a huge fan of Nirvana, and when Kurt died in 1994 I found it sad, but predictable. His songs were about a miserable, nothing happening adolescence, and as he got famous they morphed into songs about hating fame, and wanting to go back to the life that he hated anyway. Heroin addiction and death were inevitable for a man who refused to look on the bright side. He left some great, angry, pounding music behind him, but his refusal to embrace the possibility of future happiness killed him. I got over Nirvana a long time ago, but that’s doesn’t appear to be the case for a lot of people. I was in the supermarket today, and Kurt’s face was on the front of a top-selling (meaning it sells about ten issues) music magazine, and now I’ve just read a ‘new’ comic book from Vertigo, and Kurt is all over that as well. What the hell happened? When did our culture grind to a halt? When did looking back, relying on nostalgia, become the norm? Kurt died 21 FN YEARS AGO!!! It’s time to move on, and do something genuinely new, so when I read a comic book with (yet another) young female protagonist, and she’s all about Nirvana, it’s an immediate turn-off. A big flashing neon sign clobbers me over the head and tells me that this writer has nothing to say about now, so is going back to the past in an attempt to pump some meaning into his already moribund creation. Goddamn it man. Another FN comic with Nirvana references. I can’t believe it. Well, I can, and that’s why it’s so bloody depressing. Agggghhh, enough words, sod this comic book, over.

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50-Word (Comic) Review- Starlord #1: Pretty much what you would expect

Writer: Sam Humphries
Art: Javier Garron
Publisher: Marvel (Disney)
Released: 18th November 2015


I’m like totally a rebel, and I like want to impress my dead Mum. Dad? What is a Dad? Anyway, this like female boss is like totally on my side, and I’m going to steal this spaceship to show how special I am. Wooooooshhhhh, off I go. Oh, I’m lost.


Rating: 4/10

Here’s a book about the bloke that everybody liked in that movie. He’s a loveable loser type. I find it very telling that one of the most popular new comic book heroes is a loser, telling because it’s the comic book industry reflecting readers back onto themselves. They see their readers as losers, so the heroes are losers as well, with the obvious difference being that in the real world comic book fans will always be losers, but in comics, they win, hence the appeal. So, is this book any good? If you want a personality based narrative about a loveable loser getting to win, get it. I couldn’t get anything out of it, but that’s because I am a comic book reader who wants to win for himself, not just read about winners, and that’s why I’ve started to do my own webcomics. Please check out the latest one here on my blog. It’s about BigFoot and Isis. The art isn’t as good as you will be used to, but I’m trying to say something about reality, about the real world, and you are not going to get that in Marvel/Disney comic books about loveable losers that get to win.

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50-Word (Comic) review- 2000AD- PROG 1956: My mind is on other things

Writers & Artists: Various
Publisher: Rebellion (time to live up to the name folks)
Released: 11th November 2015



Reading comic at work, memories of 1980’s flooding back. Dredd story is silly. Defoe is rich v poor. Brass Sun so convoluted will read better as a whole. Dexter inconsequential. Bad Company all nostalgia. How to think about a comic when Islam is showing it’s true face of intolerance again?

Rating: 7/10



I read this comic book last night, and I enjoyed it. Dredd made me laugh, and there was a nostalgia factor to the book as a whole, but how much longer can we bury our heads in nostalgia whilst ignoring the reality of the world around us? Knock, knock, here’s a reality check. Western civilisation, look at what has happened to us. We are under attack, and most of us are too scared to even defend ourselves. Cowered by political correctness into shutting our mouths and living in a delusional non-reality world, or the dead world of the past, our heads are in the sand and our asses are up in the air. No more enforced ‘respect.’ It’s truth time. We need to start getting with reality. We need to start defending ourselves. Radical Islam is a real threat that seeks to kill us all. This threat needs to be recognised EVERYWHERE, and comic books need to do their part as well. Have a good weekend. Speak truth now. We have been building our own graveyard, labelled with the cultural Marxist epithets of 'diversity’ and ‘tolerance.’ Stop building the graveyard. It’s time to smash it down, and to rebuild what we have been programmed to destroy. Start speaking truth. Stop living life as a politically correct coward. Start defending yourselves. If you don’t, you know what’s going to happen next.

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