Johnathan | April 17, 2011
In the wake of the near-death experience of not having a damn computer for two weeks I am retiring John Buys Comics, I think. It was conceived of when there were several people doing reviews on this site every week and the format that I set up for myself, loose as it was, was a [...]
Johnathan | January 13, 2011
DC Comics’ theme cover month has had a somewhat jarring effect on me this week, in that it starkly outlines just how many of their books I’m buying. I guess I’m enjoying them all, but it’s still weird. Especially as the only two books I feel like talking about this week are from other publishers. [...]
Johnathan | January 6, 2011
This is going to be intensely abbreviated, as I can imagine that reading my thoughts on comics is beginning to pall. After this, you get a week off. New: Hellboy: the Sleeping and the Dead, which is a two-parter set in 1966 and features Hellboy vs. vampires, one of my favourite situations. This is supposed [...]
Johnathan | January 5, 2011
I will be brief. Here are the new series that wowed me in the dearly departed 2010. Age of Reptiles – Is it wrong that I weigh the amazing panoramic vistas and incredibly rendered herds of multiple dinosaur species and the wordless drama of predator v. prey as highly as the puerile giggles I get [...]
Johnathan | January 3, 2011
Well hell. This has been sitting here as a draft for two days. Pretend that didn’t happen. Yes, everything is shiny and new in 2011 and my hose is abuzz with the sounds of my girlfriend tossing things out to make room for all the junk sweet loot that we were presented with over the [...]
Johnathan | January 2, 2011
As I said, I had an enormous list of potential "Best of" candidates that were ruthlessly whittled down to the top ten that has by now been enshrined in the hearts of nerdlingers everywhere. But why should all of my hard work go to waste, huh? Thus: the runners-up post. First up, a list of [...]
Johnathan | December 23, 2010
A lot of highly enjoyable comics came out this week – Skullkickers, The Sixth Gun, Invincible, an issue of Chew that practically guarantees that I will be eating fried chicken over the holidays, the Larfleeze Christmas Special – but I’m afraid that they will all have to take a back seat to the book that [...]
Johnathan | December 2, 2010
That’s right, it’s December, that magical month in which I don’t seem to actually be doing a whole lot more with my time but somehow there still never actually seems to be enough time to do things. So much was bought but little was read, so sad, so sad. No matter! Here are some bullet [...]
Johnathan | November 25, 2010
Pocket reviews of the things John bought this week. Featuring Batman, Batman, Batman.
Johnathan | November 18, 2010
Firstly, though, a step back. Last week brought two delightful new additions to the ever-expanding John Lair’s library and I wanted to hearken back to them. First up, Xenozoic, collecting Mark Schulz’s Xenozoic Tales series, which I for one had only ever encountered under the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs moniker up ‘til now, and despite the [...]