Webcomics: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

If you’ve been a big fan of Tintin comics for as long as you’ve known about Hergé, its almost certain you’ll love Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Canadian artist Tony Cliff.  

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Experiencing Comics

Comics are great aren't they? They're artwork combined with riviting storylines and there seems to be practically an endless supply. Granted some experiments have been made that haven't ended well.


Have you ever wanted to get more from comics?


It's ok to admit it. Comics are so great that we as fans try to experience them as much as we possibly can. As fans we try to put ourselves into the worlds alongside our favorite heroes battling our favorite villains. It a nice break and mental vacation from our every day lives. Are we wrong?


If that wasn't the case there would be no movies, video games, cosplay, comic shows, amusement park rides, or TV shows. It's as close as we're ever going to get to being apart of that world. So let's take a closer look at these mediums and see what we can derive from them.

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Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 5

Writer: Alan Moore
Artists: Rick Veitch, John Totleben, Alfredo Alcala
Collects Swamp Thing issues 51-56
Published under VERTIGO


Welcome after the long interval to yet another helping of sumptuous green delight. This time, Alan Moore ACTUALLY takes out Swampy where he's actually never been before.

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Dorohedoro, The bizzare and the beautiful

Here comes the pain

It is not often that one finds a manga being compared favourably to Berserk. And when one does, I urge aforementioned one to immediately go after the manga. Dorohedoro is something resembling one of my nightmares. Our protagonist, Kaiman. Is a full fledged knife wielding badass, and the kicker? He has a lizard head.

The manga jumps straight into the action, starting out with a knife battle between Kaiman and a bunch of mages. And then it gets weirder. Kaiman puts the mage's head inside his own head where another head pops up and talks to the mage. At which point Kaiman extracts the mage and asks him a simple question.

"What did the guy inside me say?"

Yeah, far out doesnt even begin to cut it. And this is before the primary cast and crew of this sprawling adventure have been properly introduced yet. And boy by the time they are all introduced weird as a word feels limited. They will need a whole new language to describe the weirdness inherent in the manga. The world is split up. One world called the Hole is a place where normal men and women live unable to do magic. Then there is the magic world. Ruled over by the mightiest of all mages, En.

Say cheese!

And En does not seem like a nice guy. matter of fact there are not too many nice guys in this manga. Nor are they wholly villainous. Every character in this manga is his/her own unique shade of gray. Kinda like the real world, which is funny cause that is about the only similarity that exists between the real world and this manga. Everything else is wholly bizzare. Every panel, every scene enacted in this manga feels wrong to the eye in its own vague way. And not because of specifics, instead its the little things. Be it the horrifying masks of the mages, or be it the unique system of magic present. or be it the fact that the world of mages is ruled by Devils. And is in fact a conduit straight to hell.

yep read that right, straight to hell. A hell presided over by an entire hierarchy of devils. And the best part? The mages who grow strong over time get the choice to transform into a devil. There is some convulated pact between the mages and the devils. And mighty En, ruler of all mages is at the centre of it all.

A rock and roll adventure through a bleak almost post apocalyptic world awaits you dear reader.

I cannot put that in simpler words. To find out more, you will simply have to read it all. Soldier on.

Its manga crack.

This week in comics: What's New :

Lord of the Jungle #1

Writer : Arvid Nelson

Artist : Roberto Castro

Review : Anubhav Das Gupta

I thought I’d give some #1’s a try this week. So, here goes.

I love Tarzan. Everyone does. But only a few have actually read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ amazing novels. And these novels, they are very different from any of the movies or the TV shows. The comicbooks, however, were always pretty close to the source material.  And this one stays close too.

Lord of the Jungle, infact, stays very close to the book. It’s primarily a comicbook adaptation of the first chapter of the book. But is it a good adaptation? 

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Desert Punk, its Fallout for manga!

If you tear open this world, bleed it dry, and then let the remains out in the sun to be bleached for an eternity, you will have something resembling the world of Desert Punk. Welcome to the Apocalypse, nothing survived. Except for the humans of course. As resilient as the hardy cockroach humanity with its inexhaustible appetite and drive would definitely survive, no matter what the cataclysm. But the world left for them to inhabit is a harsh place indeed. The story takes place almost entirely in the Great Kanto Desert, a massive desert that stretches on in all directions. A dune sea where only the survival of the fittest counts and the weak die.

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COMIC ADDICTS VS BOOK WORMS : An Unfair Fight

EPISODE 1: The addicts strike back

This war has been going on since ages from the day the first comic got printed. Through the years it has become fiercer than epic rivalries like Ram vs Ravan, Moses vs Ramsis, the Corleones vs the 5 families, Marvel vs Capcom, DC vs Marvel, Star Wars vs Star Trek etc. In fact in its comparison the war between the titans and the Olympians almost looks like children performing a sort of a role play.  They (the bookworms) think of us as kids who will be perpetually be kids while we (the comic addicts) know that bookworms are nothing but pseudo-intellectual posers just jealous of the kind of culture we have.  Thus to settle this for once and for all we have in the blue corner the comic addicts and in the red corner the bookworms, let the slaughter fest begin.

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Comfort in Comics: 100 BULLETS

I haven't written anything for 3 months. By written I mean, I haven't written any comic book scripts, nor have I drawn anything. When that happens I usually escape into sci-fi and fantasy based stories. Reading or watching something that has nothing to do with reality always seems to bring me out of the depths that I end up digging for myself.

   So, I did a lot of reading and watching. Being in the dark mode I was in, I picked and ruffled through the pile of graphic novels I have and then got hold of the complete trade paperbacks of 100 Bullets. Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's tour de force is a classic crime series. The high concept is thus : A man with a suitcase filled with 100 untraceable bullets would offer you a chance to use it for whichever purposes you wish. What would you do if you were afforded such an opportunity?

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