Forum: Comic Book Club

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/WolverineAdamantiumMen.png Hey Clubbers! It’s been a long time coming, I know, but since this is the final edition of Comic Book Club, I wanted to put a lot of reading and effort into this one, and do my utmost to end my run on a high note. The...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/BatmanRIPGetIt.jpg Hey clubbers! It was bumped back to make room for my end-of-year top ten, due to my crappy scheduling, but here we are at last, with our much-delayed spotlight on Grant Morrison’s run on Batman. In the past, I’ve devoted a...

Hey Clubbers! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! This meeting marks the last Comic Book Club of 2010, and I’ve decided to make it a year-end tradition to have a top ten, given how my anal-retentive, OCD-tinged mind has an obsession with coming up with top ten lists for everything. This time...

Hey Clubbers! My humble apologies for another obscene delay. No excuses this time, aside from me taking ages to get through the rather hefty reading material for this meeting. Also, as a result of my tardiness, I’ve had to juggle around the order of upcoming meetings a bit, but I’ll get to that...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/ScottPilgrim7.jpg Hey Clubbers! I have to apologize for the massive delay in getting this next column up. In truth, I have no excuse, other than I have had a very difficult time writing it. After talking about the first book in the Scott...

Hey Clubbers! Or perhaps that should be, “Prepare to die, Clubbers! Bwahahahaha!” After all, the subject of today’s meeting is the comic book supervillain. Supervillains are every bit as important an innovation of the comic book world as their superhero counterparts, and have similar origins. ...

Hello again Clubbers! The subject of this meeting is one of the most interesting, distinctive creative voices to emerge in the comics world in recent years: Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire. I first became aware of Jeff Lemire with the launch of a new Vertigo series called Sweet Tooth last year. ...

Greetings Clubbers! In today’s meeting, we’ll be discussing two of the year’s best movies: Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim VS the World. As some pundits and naysayers talk about the superhero bubble being about to burst and this golden age of comic book movies being set to come to an abrupt end, these...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/IKillGiantsTitan.jpg Hey Clubbers! This time round the meeting is actually going up on time – amazing! It’s Open Forum again today, and the topic that I asked you all to think about for this meeting was on the subject of Absolute Editions, or...

Hey Clubbers! Sorry for another lengthy delay in getting up a new column. Between getting ready for my trip to San Diego, and the stuff I needed to get caught up on upon returning, it took me ages to get around to even reading the material for this meeting, let alone writing about it. But here...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/SecretSix1.jpg Hey Clubbers! Welcome to the 30th edition of Comic Book Club! And what a treat we have for you on this mini-landmark. Thanks to everyone who contributed and replied in our last meeting on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight -...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/scan0002.jpg Hey Clubbers! I’d like to start by offering a big thank you to everyone who contributed to our last meeting on The Walking Dead. There was a great response to the article, and we got a good amount of discussion going, and that was...

Hey clubbers! A few days late is an improvement on several weeks late, but still, let’s get straight to business. The comic series we’ll be taking an extended look at for this meeting is The Walking Dead, the zombie saga from writer Robert Kirkman and (as of issue #7, with Tony Moore on art...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Sandman.jpg Hey Clubbers, long time no see! Sorry for the extreme delay – we’ve been getting a lot of work done in the house these past few weeks, and my internet access has been limited – and the column is a bit shorter this time round because I...

Hey Clubbers! It’s crazy to think we’ve been doing this for a whole year already. Well, if we’re being precise, the one year anniversary actually fell on the day I posted the LAST meeting, accommodating for various delays. But officially speaking, I’m counting this as the point where we’ve had a...

Looking up, the title for this meeting reminds me a little of Buck Rogers. Anyway, welcome once again to Comic Book Club. Today we wrap up our series exploring the advances comic books have made outside the superhero genre by taking another look at what, in the Introduction to Scalped: Indian...

Hey Clubbers! I took a longer break between meetings this time round to let everyone (myself included) catch up with the reading. But now we’re back with our extended look at comics beyond the superhero genre, and while over the past couple of meetings we’ve been studying genres (crime, war) in...

Hey Clubbers! I was disappointed in the lack of response to our last meeting on Warren Ellis. I’m sorry if you’re not enjoying the current direction Comic Book Club is taking, but fear not – this particular block comes to an end with the next meeting, and then we’re moving onto something new. In...

Welcome back, Clubbers! I'm really sorry for the RIDICULOUS delay on this meeting going up. I have been working on it all week, but due to a whole catalogue of reasons it just wasn't happening. I really hate that I'm slipping with this, and I'll try and be better in future. Anyway, in this...

Welcome back, Clubbers! It’s been a while since we had a meeting of Comic Book Club, with an extended break over the Christmas period (and, for further delays beyond that, my apologies once more), but now we’re back, and hopefully from now we’ll be able to get back into our regular routine. Last...

Hey clubbers! I can’t believe it, but we are now starting the 20th meeting of Comic Book Club. Oh, how time flies! This also coincides with another landmark, as this is being posted on 14th December 2009, and since it’ll be 3 weeks until Meeting #21 (I hope you don’t mind me taking Christmas...

Hey folks, and welcome to another edition of Comic Book Club! Last week we wrapped up our five-meeting series discussing the validity of the superhero genre in comic books, and for those who read all my columns on the subject, you will have seen one name pop up week after week: Alan Moore. The...

Welcome back, clubbers! It’s been a tumultuous two weeks for Project Fanboy since we last met. Steven Forbes has departed from the boards, and so the jewel in Project Fanboy’s column crown, Bolts & Nuts, is now on indefinite hiatus. This is a big loss to our little community, but Seb, Jay,...

Hello clubbers, and welcome to the 18th meeting of Comic Book Club! We’re almost at a mini-milestone with Meeting #20, where I have what I hope should be an interesting topic lined up. More details on that next time. For now, we’re going to bring our extended look at the state of the superhero...

It’s Monday again, and that means it’s time for another edition of Comic Book Club! The last meeting on Spider-Man had a great response, so thanks everyone for getting involved in the discussion. I hope people will be as interested in this second Marvel case study. To be incredibly arrogant for...

Hey clubbers! Thanks for your response in last meeting’s Open Forum, it was good to read what some of you thought about your favorite superheroes back in the Silver Age. And as we now move forward with Comic Book Club, I look at my plans for the next few meetings and I see that the upcoming...

Hiya clubbers! I just want to start by thanking you all for the great response to the last meeting. It was nice seeing more people getting involved in the debate, and commenting on the Alan Moore interview that served as our launching point. But of course, as I said in the last meeting, I don’t...

Greetings and salutations! Another two weeks have flown by, and so it means it’s time for another meeting of Comic Book Club. And here we are at the second Open Forum. I think that Open Forum is an important part of Comic Book Club, as it puts the power in your hands – you get to decide what you...

Hey folks! Funny how things work out. Just as I get round to my focus on horror in comics, I find fellow Project Fanboy columnist Steve Forbes is immersed in discussion of this very topic. He’s certainly had plenty of insightful things to say about the genre, so if you aren’t reading Bolts &...

Hey clubbers! It’s been a week longer than usual between meetings, what with me being off to San Diego and all that, so I’ll try and make this installment worth the wait. Let’s get right to it then: Grant Morrison. He’s a writer who seems to starkly divide comic book fans. Some dismiss him as a...

Greetings once more, clubbers! The column is a little early this time round, as I am leaving for San Diego on Monday. Comic-Con here I come! Anyway, I’ve been disappointed to notice that, over the past couple of meetings, participation has been slipping. The response to Meeting #8 was rather...

The Blackest Night is upon us. After two years of hype (or more, arguably, as we’ll discuss soon), this week sees the arrival of Green Lantern #43, the official prologue to next week’s Blackest Night #1. For those who have been living under a rock, The Blackest Night is the third and final part...

Hello again, clubbers! Thanks to those of you who contributed to the open forum with your recommended reading for comic newcomers, I found your opinions on the matter to be very interesting, and well thought-out. But now I’m in charge of the reading list again, and the topic assigned to you for...

Oh, how two weeks fly by! Welcome back to Comic Book Club. In this meeting, the subject of our discussion is one that is sure to spark debate and division: the ever-controversial Frank Miller. I’d like to start off with a strip from Shortpacked, the excellent daily web-comic from David Willis: ...

Nice to see you all again, I hope you’ve been busy reading these past two weeks! After the intensive look at DC’s Vertigo imprint last time, in this meeting the focus will be on Marvel. As anyone reading Marvel Comics at the moment is likely to know, Marvel is in the middle of a storyline called...

Greetings clubbers! My opening post for this meeting will be shorter than usual, as more than ever, the focus is on all of you for this meeting. This is Open Forum, and you are the guys setting the reading list. I asked you to pick one comic book or graphic novel that you would give to a...

Last month, the landmark series 100 Bullets came to a close with its 100th and final issue. Controversial, innovative and, of course, very much "for mature readers", 100 Bullets was a series that continued to build on the reputation established by DC's Vertigo imprint for high-quality comic books....

Hey Club! Two weeks have passed, and that means it’s time once more for us to gather up in a cosy circle and have a chat about comic books. And I’ll start this week’s chat with a quick question. Who picked up Flash: Rebirth #1 at the start of the month? I did, and overall I enjoyed it. Like, I...

Hello everybody, and welcome to the second meeting of Comic Book Club! I just want to start with a note of thanks. I was blown away by the response to my introduction two weeks back, I’m glad to know the issues I discussed resonate with many of you. I can only hope now that those of you who...

Hello everybody, and welcome to Comic Book Club. The first rule of Comic Book Club is… you do not talk about Comic Book Club. The second rule of Comic Book Club is… you do not talk about Comic Book Club! Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Seriously, though, please do talk about Comic Book Club. First...