Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - Tom

The Phantom Statuette - Croftminster
The Phantom, probably the first costume crime fighter to don the tights, purple being the flavour. Lee Falk first created the Phantom way back in 1936, which appeared in the American newspaper comic strip section.
The Phantom Statuette stands thirteen inches tall, is hand painted, made from quality resin, complete with skull chair base and is limited worldwide.
This particular statue was designed by Australian Phantom artist Glenn Ford and he is quoted saying "I've been waiting years to design a Phantom statue! It's here at last... the sculpting is fantastic.... I'm proud of the result!"
Manufactured by Croftminster.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - Soon Van

Army of Darkness: From The Ashes #1; writer: James Kuhoric; pencils: Fernando Blanco; colours: Ivan Nunes
Raise the arm long enough and lose all feeling in it as the blood drains back to the rest of the body. Keep it up there long enough still and feel nothing for quite a while. Why are you holding it up there in the first place? Can't reach the flourescent light?
Fresh from the Marvel Zombies vs. AOD Cross-over! - well, not "minty" fresh, but fresh enough - from his appearance in the Universe of the Marvel Zombies, our un-intrepid hero has returned to his own world - but what a world it's become!
Evil Ash and his Deadite hordes rule the land and everywhere Ash turns is filled with mutants and monsters! Can Ash J. Williams gather his "chosen" and take down the Deadite hordes and restore order to the world? Read on and find out!
All the action and post-apocalyptic excitement is once again brought to you from the creative team of James Kuhoric and artist Fernando Blanco and features a stunning painted cover from Arthur (Savage Tales, Marvel Zombies) Suydam!
Army of Darkness: From the Ashes from Dynamite Entertainment
Kids caught in a civil war often go up and vanish from the books and stats logs. Big one in purple tights with Mike Bullock and Silvestre Szilagyi in
Phantom #18 carry on the battle against a HIM and the secrets of the hiding.
Fred Van Lente and Charles Carvalho go beyond the paddle board and the pickle walkers in
Ghosting. Basically upping the ante of hazing to the level of ghouls and ghosts and stains in the shorts. Five whacks on the back for this track.
Six with the mega villain of the DCU and Peter J. Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Norm Raphmund and Christian Alamy tell the tale of
Black Adam: The Dark Age. Get yourself in too deep with the bog and the marsh and find stink lines waving all about. Knock off thousands of citizens and just watch people chase your tail as well.
Brit gone mystic takes a walk and finds another, only in legend before, in
The Sadhu: The Silent Ones. Saurav Mohapatra and Manikanda leading the way from here to there and all with the spoken word made written.
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Guy Davis slam a change to the bureau in
BPRD: Killing Ground. Once took five tic tacs to stuff up an entire nose. Now where are the paranormal investigators then then huh?
Trade of the week
Ever looked at the photo Alan Moore that is on that one with the Watchmen? Mangy looking man, like Spider at the start, with a typewriter of good skills and madness. That's sort Alan Moore.
Alan Moore: The Complete WildC.A.T.S collects his works with the team that features a lot of green and if your nose is dry enough, you too may reward yourself with a partial nose bleed.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - Soon Van

Chronicles of Wormwood #1 (of 6); written by Garth Ennis, art by Jacen Burrows
Ben Templesmith a couple weeks back had a Wormwood comic out. And now there's this Wormwood from Garth Ennis picking up from the minor preview hardly there to hold. Armageddon seems to threaten to start up every now and then. And all those times, they keep on making burgers you could suck your brains out draining.
Garth Ennis unleashes his next major religious epic in the vein of Preacher, but this-time, he's taking it up a notch!
Danny Wormwood is having all the troubles of modern man, his TV shows have issues, he cheats on his wife, and his rabbit talks back to him. But this poor sod also has to deal with the fact that his dad is Satan himself and Pope Jacko and the Catholic church are also raising Hell.
Oh yeah, the Armageddon is about to start and Jesus is a right thicko, not much help there.
Ennis drags the whole world into the gutter with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue, biting wit, and the stunning art of Jacen Burrows, all in full-color.
Chronicles of Wormwood #1 from Avatar Press
Jonathan David Goff and Khary Randolph go hell for long capes and big chains in
Adventures Of Spawn #1 from Image Comics. Those familiar with the original web comic will come to spot more maggots and flesh hidden in this directors cut version type thing. It's late and the computer is talking back.
Major swagbag of creators (Ron Marz, Chuck Dixon, Tony Bedard, Rafael Nieves, Mike Bullock, Ruben Procopio, Graham Nolan, Joe Prado, Tony Akins and Juan Ferreyra) line up to smack it up on the pirates and baddies in
Phantom Annual #1. From Moonstone Books, it's a mega jam from the company that sits next to the Frew on the Comic Shop shelve. Take a gander.
Take a life and write it down.
Wonderlost from Image Comics is C.B. Cebulski doing the autobiographay thing with art from Paul Azaceta, Alina Galloway, Jonathan Luna, Martin Montiel and Ethan Young.
More pork to bacon a ham sandwich with,
Ultimate Civil War: Spider-Ham Crisis #1 from Marvel Comics takes a joke and uncoils the curly. Sitting with the juicy juice on at the table with J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Wieringo, Mike Allred, John Severin, Nick Dragotta, Ariel Olivetti and Jim Mahfood.
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