Advantages: A great book for scathing satire on the state of television and pop culture. Cutting, but human. Disadvantages: Not Charlie Brooker at his best. A few articles resemble his imitators more than his peak form.
If you've not heard of Charlie Brooker, chances are you don't live in Great Britain or you don't watch many of the panel shows where he's been earning his keep recently. Self-deprecating isn't the half of it, he'll deprecate anything that moves - the arc ...
Advantages: A good history of comics, likeable prose style Disadvantages: Some turgid drug writing, lack of illustrations
Amazon have this book for £11 at time of writing.
Superheroes are going through a popular phase at the moment, with movies based on surprisingly obscure characters doing well at the box office (and some bombing. Bad luck, Green Lantern, I guess the wor ...
