Protocols of the Superfluous Immortal A god long since retired to the seaside Checks the post and tuts at the barometer. Some dirty weather in the offing - Freighters in the channel battened down, The green wave-walls remote and terrifying as his youth. He re-reads Hornblower in bed. He never sleeps. An egg, please, and [...]

Our book today is that megalith of all comic book graphic novels, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, which ran as a four-issue mini-series in 1986 and was collected into a single volume shortly thereafter. I recently re-read it on the occasion of giving it as a gift to a friend who’ll never read it [...]

Although it’s a typically fraught comics week (new X-Men mania! a new team of Avengers!), the brightest nugget is pure gold: Mike Mignola returning to write and draw a mini-series starring his great creation, Hellboy. The series is called “Hellboy in Hell,” and its first issue kicks off this week with a synopsis page guaranteed [...]