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Prelude to Schism review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJuly 10, 20200Comments

Rather interestingly, Paul Jenkins' "Prelude to Schism" - as the name suggests - is an interesting case in which a prelude far more outshines an event than the event itself. I would daresay even it has very little to do with this selfsame event book. Taking place just before an unspecified siege upon the island…

Green Lantern Corps review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJuly 6, 20200Comments

Rather than focus on one single member of the corps, Patrick Gleason and Dave Gibbons' Green Lantern Corps dispersed its focus among its members creating what is best described as "Apocalypse Now", "We Were Soldiers" or even "Jarhead" in Space. It elevated the corps' status from one of a peace-keeping force to one of a…

ACM Hangouts: Tapping into Collectivity

NewsJuly 2, 20200Comments

ACMHangouts: Tapping into Collectivity with the participation of Inizjamed, L-Ghanja tal-Poplu and Wicked Comics supported by the Investment in Cultural Organisations Programme with speakers Susanne Næss Nielsen, IETM board member and director of Dansarena Nord and Mary Ann Cauchi Director Funding and Strategy at Arts Council Malta.

New titles from TidalWave for July: ADAM WEST, Tiger King, INSANE JANE and more

Comics, NewsJuly 2, 20200Comments

Mis-Adventures of Adam West: Dark Night #4 Writer: Richard Elms Artist: James Hill Retail: $5.99 Release Date: July 15, 2020 Adam West and his motley trio of heroes are running out of time, New York is in in the grip of a mad man, and only through team work, imagination and sheer grit can they hope to save the day. Ray…

Batman: Arkham Asylum review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 30, 20200Comments

I don't usually promote Batman graphic novels as they get quite enough exposure without me trying to. However, this is by far one of my favorite books both as a Batman book as well as Grant Morrison one. Not only it has the same metaphysical quality one would expect from a Morrison narrative, but the…

Tapping into Collectivity

NewsJune 26, 20200Comments

This session will focus on collectivity with the aim of exploring how different platforms employ various ways to keep their team focused, interested and engaged, year after year. It will also tap into the aspect of volunteering and the value which this adds to the organisation itself and to an event or activity. The guest speakers…

Investment in Cultural Organisations Programme

NewsJune 25, 20200Comments

As part of Arts Council Malta’s strategy in providing support for organisations, regular festivals, programmes and events in planning ahead, through sustainable models of management, primarily addressing cultural professionals and communities, in 2016, following a competitive call for proposals, 11 organisations and festivals active in the cultural and creative sectors were selected to become Arts…

Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight review

Comics, ReviewsJune 24, 20200Comments

How do you bounce back from failure on an extraordinary scale? How do you do so when extraordinary expectations are pushed upon you when burdened with power limited only by your imagination? In spite of it being seen through a lens of character assassination by some, when read in retrospect in particular this Green Lantern…

‘TIGER KING’ COMIC BOOK RELEASES INTO THE WILD WITH FOURTEEN VARIANT COVERS

Comics, NewsJune 24, 20200Comments

TidalWave Productions releases the biography comic book “Infamous: Tiger King” this week on Wednesday, June 24th, inspired by the popular Netflix documentary series “Tiger King.” The 24-page comic book flip-book biography was written by Michael Frizell and drawn by Joe Paradise. There are fourteen variants for the one-shot. CHECKLIST: Standard Cover – Joe Paradise…

Young Avengers review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 22, 20200Comments

As a writer, Allan Heinberg managed to recapture what Marv Wolfman did before him in Teen Titans once again; the essence of being a teenager in their time. And this in spite of not having been one for some time themselves, regardless. However, the search for identity, the identification of the self with another, the…

TITAN COMICS SOLICITATIONS – SEPTEMBER 2020

Comics, NewsJune 22, 20200Comments

TITLES SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2020 COMICS & COLLECTIONS TV/FILM BLADE RUNNER 2019 #10 (ONGOING) Writers: Michael Green, Mike Johnson Artist: Andres Guinaldo FC, 32pp, $3.99 On Sale: September 23, 2020 COVER A: RIAN HUGHES COVER B: SYD MEAD COVER C: ANDRES GUINALDO Ex-Blade Runner Ash and her charge Cleo return to the rain-soaked dystopic future of Los Angeles for a confrontation that will expose a terrifying conspiracy…

Final Crisis review by Raphael Borg

Comics, ReviewsJune 19, 20200Comments

Leave it to Grant Morrison to write about something as headache inducing as a murder mystery centred upon a multiversal godlike presence and the side effects of its dying body falling through time itself. As headache inducing as it might sound, having read through it, one easily appreciates Morrison's typical metastructural thinking and way of…