From issue #13, Generation Hope will no longer be written by Kieron Gillen and Sebastian Shaw will be heading up the team. No I haven't lost my mind, it's all part of the X-Men Regenesis that's coming off the back of Schism. The new writer will be James Asmus who's definitely got some X-Men form having written some Dark X-Men: The Beginning, specifically the Mimic story and some of the Manifest Destiny stories, clearly they've been gearing him up to take over an X-book for quite some time now. He'll be joined by artist Ibraim Roberson who also worked on Dark X-Men, The Zombie Survival Guide and then some the Second Coming stories, I'm a big fan of his classical pencils and especially the way he renders Hope:

Read more »

“And when hell is full the dead shall walk the earth” Yup, you guessed it, this week is Zombie week, with two reviews of zombie-orientated books, both by the same writer. Also, in a cunning twist, one of the books is not a graphic novel but an actual novel, no pictures or nothing, just words.

First up is “The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded attacks” written by Max Brooks (World War Z, Justice League voice artist), he’s also the son of Mel Brooks, which in itself is very cool. The book is illustrated by Ibraim Roberson (cover artist for much of X-Men: Second Coming and Necrosha)

Read more »