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Comics, The Walking Dead | October 1st, 2011 | by Chris Day

Review: The Walking Dead, Vol. 9

The Walking Dead, Vol 9: Here We Remain

To describe The Walking Dead as ‘dark’ would be an understatement approaching libellous proportions. Robert Kirkman’s tale of the poor wretches unlucky enough to still be alive during a zombie apocalypse has crossed the event horizon and is now circling a black hole from which no light (joy, humour, hope or general merriment) can escape.

For once the word horror can be applied accurately; forget all of those dreary remakes and mindless torture-porn offerings at the multiplexes, for a story that will truly horrify head down to your local comic shop and pick up a copy of The Walking Dead.

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Comics, Lost, Sandman, Television | August 31st, 2011 | by Chris Day

What Do A Comic From The 90s And A TV Show From The 00s Have In Common?

Death and all her friends

(Spoiler Warning: This post has major spoilers for both Lost and Sandman. If you haven’t watched all six seasons of Lost or read all 75 issues of Sandman then DO NOT READ.)

Like a lot of geeks, a fair number of goth girls, and the odd literary critic, my favourite comic book of all time is Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. And although I may often profess the genius of TV shows like The Wire and Mad Men, if I’m being honest with myself the show that I have enjoyed more than any other is Lost.

It recently occurred to me that some of the reasons that I love Lost are also the reasons that I loved Sandman back in the day. The more I thought about it the more similarities I saw between the two. After the last article about video games and war got a little heavy, I thought it might be fun to look at just what Sandman and Lost share. (I also thought it might be fun to have a bit of a play with photoshop.)

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Comics, Ex Machina | January 31st, 2010 | by Chris Day

Review: Ex Machina The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

This is the story of my four years in office, from the beginning of 2002 through godforsaken 2005. It may look like a comic, but it’s really a tragedy.

With this sentence we are thrown into Brian K. Vaughan’s excellent sci-fi political thriller Ex Machina, a comic book which charts the rise and presumably, given the sentence just quoted, fall of Mayor Hundred aka The Great Machine. The book deals with what happens when the world’s first and only superhero hangs up his jet pack and runs for political office. Vaughan has said that the series will run to fifty issues, the first eleven of which are collected in this handsome hardcover edition.

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