Some comics I read in 2025: Battletoads: The Lost Adventure
Hands up: who knew there was a tie-in comic to the Battletoads reboot? Anyone? I know I was clueless!
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Some comics I read in 2025: Earthworm Jim
It was only after writing the last blog post about Earthworm Jim comics that I was able to get my peepers on the two recent hardback endeavours, Launch The Cow and Fight The Fish. Rather than limited-series or one-off comic books, these are proper graphic novels, a good 150 pages each of continuous content made to be read in one gulp.
It truly makes the most of its medium, taking the time to really establish a sense of place to every location and setpiece, and how all these seemingly disparate characters and concepts connect together. Aside from a one-shot starring Evil the Cat, I believe this is the first time we’ve seen Doug draw these characters in more than just promo/concept art and animation layouts, and it’s interesting to see him tackle this world with his own vision, warts and idiosyncrasies and all.
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Some comics I read in 2024: Earthworm Jim
I mentioned before that I had one sorry, solitary issue of an Earthworm Jim comic in the ’90s, and was surprised not just by the dire lack of information on it online, but that it wasn’t the only one — there was a Marvel Comics mini-series as well! I was on a short-lived Jim kick after my stint with the games, and you better believe I had to gobble up whatever media I hadn’t consumed yet.
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Tales from storage: comics upon comics
I feel like I owe people an apology on behalf of my Turok column…! Firstly, for leaving it dormant for so long; COVID kind of threw the world for a loop, plus my own iffy health, other responsibilities, procrastination, any number of excuses. You know how it is.
Secondly, I feel like it led people to believe I’m a comics person. I’m really not! I respect comics in so many ways, and I do hope that comes across in my write-ups, but the total number of comic series I’ve read can probably be counted on my fingers and my toes.
It’s been so long I sincerely can’t recall what my local newsagents carried…! I collected Sonic the Comic for its entire run from around issue #50 onwards, and I did read The Beano for longer than was healthy; whatever I owned was donated to the children of parent friends years ago, and I’ve nothing to show for them in my collection. Aside from those, I’m drawing a blank! Obviously kiddies football magazines were on shelves, but I don’t believe newsagents dealt in traditional American comics, not unless they were published in a different format.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #136: Runaway
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #47
Andy chooses who his family is.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #135: Visitantes Del Espacio
Turok: El Guerrero De Piedra #7
Mexican Turok has his first of many close encounters of the third kind.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #134: Blood of the Son
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #46
A war between tribes becomes a clash of family values.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #133: The Painted Mystery
Turok: Son of Stone #69
The buffalo never wanted this to be its legacy.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #132: Bred Up In Darkness
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #45
Meeting old friends and new threats, not all of whom are mutually exclusive.
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Dinosaur Hunter Diaries #131: The Hunted
Turok: Son of Stone #68
Andar’s ego nearly kills them all.
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