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Sharp Lines and Wired Figures: The Legacy and Influence of Martin Emond

Originally published on The Gutter Review on February 18, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, creeps! By Robert Smith Martin Emond didn’t want to be remembered just as a […]

Spawn de Replay #17: Battle in Simmonsville!

By Steve Morris May the lithe 90’s angels forgive me, I have to talk about 2000 AD. “The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic” provides me with my job and salary, so I apologise for being so crass, but as we head into part two of Grant Morrison and Greg Capullo’s ‘Reflections’ storyline, I have to do the […]

Marvel Method, Mecha Madness: The Superhero Work of Adam Warren

Originally published on The Gutter Review on February 24th, 2023. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, creeps! You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that […]

Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Gideon Graves

Is evil what it used to be? The most popular villains in comic book history are almost all characters who debuted half a century ago, their terrifying legacy and merciless reputation continuing onwards through countless reboots and relaunches around them. Shelfdust’s Year of Evil heads back to the first time iconic villains showed up on […]

You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 31, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, creeps! You can also support via Patreon, as Chloe has brought Trash Humper online […]

Spawn de Replay #16: The Anti-Spawn!

By Steve Baxi Todd McFarlane was very direct about his goals for Spawn as a title. Absent the history and prestige of DC and Marvel, he wanted to use his considerable artistic talents and fanbase to launch an original character that could compete with Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, a character whose existence would be a […]

A Celebration of That Random Crystal Green Lantern Who Always Shows Up

By Steve Morris I’ve long been a supporter of the Green Lantern Corps, a huge organisation of space cops who show up whenever a major galactic crime has been committed and the universe needs interference from an unelected private militia overseen by tiny blue bald dudes. Is it because I back those blues? No. It’s […]

Darkness There, and So Much More: Between Richard Corben and Edgar Allan Poe

Originally published on The Gutter Review on April 4, 2023. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, creeps! By Tom Shapira Is “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe the greatest poem […]

Superman Lover ’83

By David Brothers My name is David Brothers and my mother raised me. I was born in 1983 a few months after she turned eighteen. I was a kid during Reagan’s war on drugs, but I was blessed with the background radiation of a then-popular Afrocentric position for balance. Rappers and singers wore Africa medallions […]

Colouring Outside D’Lines: On D’Israeli and the Continued Evolution of British Cartooning

Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 24, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here to buy it, creeps! By Robert Smith Anybody who has been in a long-term relationship with the […]