This is nearly everything, but not quite everything. Mudman ran for six issues from Image in 2011-2013, and the first five of those issues were collected in Mudman, Vol. 1 .
It’s clearly a teen superhero comic, another one in the long line spawned by Spider-Man, and slightly more conventional than creator Paul Grist’s previous superhero comic Jack Staff . I knew, going in, that there was just one collection, and assumed the series was dead, but I didn’t realize there was one stray uncollected issue out there, taunting me.
Owen Craig is a teenager at the beginning of a new school term in Burnbridge-on-Sea, a sleepy English village that’s probably in some specific part of the country. Some not-really-explained thing happens, in an abandoned “Scooby Doo” house out on the sea-side, and Owen gets fabulous mud-based powers!
Spoiler: mud-based powers are not actually all that fabulous.
As with Jack Staff,...
It’s clearly a teen superhero comic, another one in the long line spawned by Spider-Man, and slightly more conventional than creator Paul Grist’s previous superhero comic Jack Staff . I knew, going in, that there was just one collection, and assumed the series was dead, but I didn’t realize there was one stray uncollected issue out there, taunting me.
Owen Craig is a teenager at the beginning of a new school term in Burnbridge-on-Sea, a sleepy English village that’s probably in some specific part of the country. Some not-really-explained thing happens, in an abandoned “Scooby Doo” house out on the sea-side, and Owen gets fabulous mud-based powers!
Spoiler: mud-based powers are not actually all that fabulous.
As with Jack Staff,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
I have generally not been in favor of Big Two superhero comics going “realistic.” That’s mostly because what counts as realism in superhero comics looks more like cynicism or nihilism from any other point of view, and because superhero comics are inherently one of the very most artificial artforms ever devised by the hand of man.
So I’m happy to point out that Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? is very artificial, and revels in it. The only other series I’ve seen that has as many introducing-this-character-with-their-fantastic-logo! boxes is Paul Grist’s deeply quirky Jack Staff. But this book does that trick one better: the person being introduced every single time is Mr. James Olsen himself, our hero and main character, in an unending sequence of sillier and sillier locutions about Superman’s wingman.
(I’m pretty sure I remember “Superman’s wingman” somewhere in the middle there. Nearly...
So I’m happy to point out that Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? is very artificial, and revels in it. The only other series I’ve seen that has as many introducing-this-character-with-their-fantastic-logo! boxes is Paul Grist’s deeply quirky Jack Staff. But this book does that trick one better: the person being introduced every single time is Mr. James Olsen himself, our hero and main character, in an unending sequence of sillier and sillier locutions about Superman’s wingman.
(I’m pretty sure I remember “Superman’s wingman” somewhere in the middle there. Nearly...
- 11/11/2021
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Written by Paul Grist | Art by Andrea Di Vito, Paul Grist & Various | Published by Marvel Comics
As a British comics fan growing up in the 1970’s,, one of the things I always loved about Marvel was that they genuinely seemed to care about their British fans. They had a strong reprint presence in the newsagents, something DC didn’t have until much later, and Stan Lee and various Marvel writers and artists often popped over to Old Blighty and detailed it in Bullpen Bulletins. The love affair between Marvel and the U.K was always a mutual one, if at times Marvel could be a little Dickensian with their portrayals of bobbies on the beat and ‘gor blimey, guvnor’. As much as I love characters like Captain America and Iron Man, I’ve always had a huge fondness for the Brits. I’ve loved Captain Britain, Union Jack, The Invaders,...
As a British comics fan growing up in the 1970’s,, one of the things I always loved about Marvel was that they genuinely seemed to care about their British fans. They had a strong reprint presence in the newsagents, something DC didn’t have until much later, and Stan Lee and various Marvel writers and artists often popped over to Old Blighty and detailed it in Bullpen Bulletins. The love affair between Marvel and the U.K was always a mutual one, if at times Marvel could be a little Dickensian with their portrayals of bobbies on the beat and ‘gor blimey, guvnor’. As much as I love characters like Captain America and Iron Man, I’ve always had a huge fondness for the Brits. I’ve loved Captain Britain, Union Jack, The Invaders,...
- 12/7/2020
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
It can be annoying to catch up on something you’re enjoying. Doubly so if “caught up” means “read up to the stuff published in 2009, which just sort of stops.”
But I just caught up with Paul Grist’s quirky British superhero comic Jack Staff, with the back half of the collections — the third book was Echoes of Tomorrow and the fourth one was Rocky Realities . They’re both roughly a decade old at this point, and I don’t think there’s been any new Jack Staff material since then.
(See my posts on the first two volumes — Everything Used To Be Black and White and Soldiers — for more background and details. In general, since those posts are from earlier this year, I won’t talk about anything I mentioned then, like the tropism to have a splash panel and logo every time the focus shifts to another major character.
But I just caught up with Paul Grist’s quirky British superhero comic Jack Staff, with the back half of the collections — the third book was Echoes of Tomorrow and the fourth one was Rocky Realities . They’re both roughly a decade old at this point, and I don’t think there’s been any new Jack Staff material since then.
(See my posts on the first two volumes — Everything Used To Be Black and White and Soldiers — for more background and details. In general, since those posts are from earlier this year, I won’t talk about anything I mentioned then, like the tropism to have a splash panel and logo every time the focus shifts to another major character.
- 9/11/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
It was just a little over a month ago that I covered Jack Staff Vol. 1 here, a decade after it was published. I’m accelerating a bit now, getting to 2010’s second volume with what passes for blinding speed around here.
Jack Staff, Vol. 2: Soldiers sees Paul Grist’s superhero universe transformed into full color with the addition of Phil Elliott as colorist to the team, and possibly some increased distribution from a then-new publishing management with Image. (The first series of Jack Staff came out from Grist’s own Dancing Elephant Press.) Otherwise, this is still an all-Paul Grist production: he writes and draws and (I’m pretty sure) letters as well.
Since this was the big relaunch, it needed to stand on its own. Traditionally, that’s the time to trot out a retelling of the origin, but Grist hadn’t revealed that yet — I’m not...
Jack Staff, Vol. 2: Soldiers sees Paul Grist’s superhero universe transformed into full color with the addition of Phil Elliott as colorist to the team, and possibly some increased distribution from a then-new publishing management with Image. (The first series of Jack Staff came out from Grist’s own Dancing Elephant Press.) Otherwise, this is still an all-Paul Grist production: he writes and draws and (I’m pretty sure) letters as well.
Since this was the big relaunch, it needed to stand on its own. Traditionally, that’s the time to trot out a retelling of the origin, but Grist hadn’t revealed that yet — I’m not...
- 3/22/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
This book has more panels introducing its characters than any comic I’ve ever seen in my life. I know it was originally published as twelve individual issues of the Jack Staff comic, but it’s much more common than that — so often that I started to think this had been serialized somewhere, no more than five pages at a time, for an audience with short-term memory loss.
It’s clearly on purpose, even if I’m not sure why creator Paul Grist is doing it. Is it some meta-commentary on superhero comics? A sly jab at the big comics universe-building instinct, so that every important character gets a hook and a logo, ready to spin off into his own book at the drop of a hat?
In any case, that’s how Jack Staff, Vol. 1: Everything Used to Be Black and White goes — every time the plot shifts to Jack,...
It’s clearly on purpose, even if I’m not sure why creator Paul Grist is doing it. Is it some meta-commentary on superhero comics? A sly jab at the big comics universe-building instinct, so that every important character gets a hook and a logo, ready to spin off into his own book at the drop of a hat?
In any case, that’s how Jack Staff, Vol. 1: Everything Used to Be Black and White goes — every time the plot shifts to Jack,...
- 2/15/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Out of all the eclectic characters who inhabit the universe of Mike Mignola's Hellboy universe, the Visitor, an alien assassin who spared the demon's life is perhaps one of the most intriguing. Thankfully, Dark Horse's new comic book series The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed will shed more light on the mysterious alien, and with the first issue coming out tomorrow, we caught up with Chris Roberson (iZombie) to discuss collaborating with Mike Mignola on the new Hellboy series.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Chris. How did you get involved with The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed?
Chris Roberson: The series came out of a long lunch that I had with Mike Mignola and our editor Scott Allie the winter before last. I was wrapping up work on Witchfinder: City of the Dead, and we got to talking about other...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Chris. How did you get involved with The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed?
Chris Roberson: The series came out of a long lunch that I had with Mike Mignola and our editor Scott Allie the winter before last. I was wrapping up work on Witchfinder: City of the Dead, and we got to talking about other...
- 2/21/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
He wasn't supposed to live, but Hellboy was granted a chance at life when the alien assassin assigned to kill him had other thoughts. In Dark Horse's new comic book series The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed, readers will discover why Hellboy's life was spared, and as a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we can exclusively reveal Mike Mignola's variant cover for the first issue that will only be available at the ComicsPRO annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
In addition to creating the ComicsPRO exclusive cover for the first issue of The Visitor, renowned artist Mignola also co-wrote the five-issue series with iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson, who told us:
"When Hellboy first arrived on Earth as a baby, an alien assassin was there waiting for him. The Visitor: How And Why He Stayed tells the story of why the assassin chose not to execute Hellboy on the spot,...
In addition to creating the ComicsPRO exclusive cover for the first issue of The Visitor, renowned artist Mignola also co-wrote the five-issue series with iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson, who told us:
"When Hellboy first arrived on Earth as a baby, an alien assassin was there waiting for him. The Visitor: How And Why He Stayed tells the story of why the assassin chose not to execute Hellboy on the spot,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Dark Horse Comics' Hellboy in Hell may have concluded its run, but there are still many adventures ahead for the beloved (and feared) demon. This week marks the release of Hellboy in Hell: The Death Card Volume 2, and in the future, readers will be treated to several epic comic book stories within Mike Mignola's immersive universe, including Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, a new graphic novel that is teased in our exclusive set of preview pages ahead of the story's release next year.
In addition to Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, 2017 will also see the release of The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed, a new comic book series featuring Hellboy and enigmatic aliens (that alone should have readers anxiously awaiting February's arrival).
To learn more about both of these projects, we have their official press releases with full details, below, as well as a teaser video...
In addition to Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, 2017 will also see the release of The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed, a new comic book series featuring Hellboy and enigmatic aliens (that alone should have readers anxiously awaiting February's arrival).
To learn more about both of these projects, we have their official press releases with full details, below, as well as a teaser video...
- 10/20/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Since Doctor Who began, if you forgave its occasional production shortfalls, it paid you off generously with Amazing performers and casting. And in the Classic Series, casting often was everything. The New Series mostly continues the impeccable standard. I stand with a majority of fans and say they’ve Never blown casting the role of the Doctor, and more often than not the companions have been perfectly rendered too. Many, Many iconic villains are what they are not because of ring modulators or Dalek casings – They were effortlessly portrayed through perfect casting, sometimes by names that were justly famous already (Martin Jarvis, Kylie Minogue, Brian Blessed, Julian Glover, and Sir Ian McKellan for example) or who rose to fame shortly thereafter (We can count Andrew Garfield, Martin Clunes, and Carey Mulligan amongst those who broke out on “Who”).
Sometimes, though….they get it So wrong. New and Classic Who sometimes...
Sometimes, though….they get it So wrong. New and Classic Who sometimes...
- 3/19/2013
- by John McGrath
- Obsessed with Film
Tuesday brought sad news for punk rock fans with the death of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene. Flagrant music lovers Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie shared what she meant to them, both as a music icon and performer with a punny name.
The flip-side of authority in the U.K. continued to trend in conversations as well, though, with Mark Millar and Paul Grist sounding off about the British royal family and their ensuing wedding. Read on for jabs, queries, and "Doctor Who" and "The Killing" criticism.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for April 26, 2011.
Poly Styrene pt. 1: @kierongillen Rip Poly Styrene. Her voice meant more than a tweet can hold. X-ray Spex made me feel invulnerable and fragile simultaneously.
-Kieron Gillen, Writer ("Phonogram," "Thor")
Poly Styrene pt. 2: @McKelvie Poly Styrene. There was a pun name. None of this Perry Farrel business. Rip.
-Jamie McKelvie,...
The flip-side of authority in the U.K. continued to trend in conversations as well, though, with Mark Millar and Paul Grist sounding off about the British royal family and their ensuing wedding. Read on for jabs, queries, and "Doctor Who" and "The Killing" criticism.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for April 26, 2011.
Poly Styrene pt. 1: @kierongillen Rip Poly Styrene. Her voice meant more than a tweet can hold. X-ray Spex made me feel invulnerable and fragile simultaneously.
-Kieron Gillen, Writer ("Phonogram," "Thor")
Poly Styrene pt. 2: @McKelvie Poly Styrene. There was a pun name. None of this Perry Farrel business. Rip.
-Jamie McKelvie,...
- 4/26/2011
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
Voting in the 2010 Eagle Awards is now open. After compiling votes from around the world including not just the UK and the USA but also more than 40 other countries including Finland, Israel, Russia, Taiwan, Ghana, Costa Rica, Croatia and Chile, the top five nominees in each of 29 categories have been chosen by the thousands of participants. To cast your vote for your 2009 favourites, log on to http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/vote.aspx
Voting is to close at midnight (British Summer Time) on Sunday July 4th 2010. The winners will be announced later this year at a venue yet to be determined.
2010 Eagle Awards Nominees
Favourite Newcomer Writer
Al Ewing
Jonathan Hickman
Kathryn Immonen
Kieron Gillen
Mike Lynch
Favourite Newcomer Artist
David Lafuente
Declan Shalvey
Jamie McKelvie
John Cullen
Matt Timson
Favourite Writer
Alan Moore
Geoff Johns
John Wagner
Tony Lee
Warren Ellis
Favourite Writer/Artist
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Darwyn Cooke...
Voting is to close at midnight (British Summer Time) on Sunday July 4th 2010. The winners will be announced later this year at a venue yet to be determined.
2010 Eagle Awards Nominees
Favourite Newcomer Writer
Al Ewing
Jonathan Hickman
Kathryn Immonen
Kieron Gillen
Mike Lynch
Favourite Newcomer Artist
David Lafuente
Declan Shalvey
Jamie McKelvie
John Cullen
Matt Timson
Favourite Writer
Alan Moore
Geoff Johns
John Wagner
Tony Lee
Warren Ellis
Favourite Writer/Artist
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Darwyn Cooke...
- 6/21/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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