Month: August 2022

Joe Golem, Occult Detective is, I believe, the only Mignola Outerverse character I’ve just not ever read. This arrived unexpectedly today. I’d forgotten I’d ordered it ages ago.

Luckily, Dave’s Comics had a copy of the first issue of Terry Moore’s new series, Parker Girls. My LCS couldn’t get a copy for me and – taking the opportunity of being in Brighton – I managed to pick it up. As usual, it’s a fantastic comic book. I always look forward to comics by Terry Moore.

Not the real thing but a facsimile of the Steve Ditko-drawn (and probably plotted) annual from 1964. I believe it’s the first appearance of the villainous Sinister Six. I adore Ditko’s run on Spider-man and don’t think it’s ever been bettered. When I was a boy I had a British reprint of the early Ditko Spider-man and, like Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four, influenced my taste in comics. I still love that first decade of Marvel comics.

Picked this up from a secondhand bookshop in Rochester. I found it in the Literary Criticism section. As I’m in a bit of a personal X-Men revival, I couldn’t resist. It’s a series of interviews by Tom DeFalco with creators from Stan Lee to Grant Morrison. Some really interesting stuff. There seems to be companion books on Spider-man and the Fantastic Four that I’ll track down.

Moore and Campbell’s extraordinary re-telling of the Jack the Ripper story (though it’s much more than that). I’ve read From Hell at least twice before but not for a very long time. I actually want a copy of the recent colourised version but picked up this instead (though only noticed that the back cover is starting to come away from the pages).

2019’s big change to the X-Men universe. I’ve got the single issues somewhere and have kept up with what’s been happening since. My interest in the X-Men has been renewed by Kieron Gillen’s involvement. Getting this as a hardcover without paying a crazy price took a long time.