Existential Ennui

Just in time for London Book Fair – which I was doing the rounds at yesterday – there's a cover up on Amazon for my next book: DC Cinematic Universe: A Celebration of DC at the Movies ....

http://www.existentialennui.com/2024/03/cover-reveal-dc-cinematic-universe-by.html

If it seems like all I ever blog about on Existential Ennui these days are books that I've written – or edited – that's because I'm too busy writing – or editing – those books to blog a...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2023/10/marvel-arms-and-armour-out-now.html

Speaking of covers, as I was last month  in relation to my forthcoming book Marvel Arms and Armour , which is out in the autumn, there's also a cover and info up on Amazon for another book I...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2023/07/the-art-of-classic-sci-fi-movies.html

Just a quick note to say there's a rather splendid-looking cover up on Amazon for my next book, Marvel Arms and Armour: The Mightiest Weapons and Technology in the Marvel Universe . Titled, n...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2023/06/marvel-arms-and-armour-by-nick-jones.html

Or rather, Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy The Ultimate Guide New Edition by Nick Jones (i.e., me) is out now in the United States  and on Thursday 6 April in the UK . So actually it's out twice...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2023/04/marvel-guardians-of-galaxy-ultimate.html

The earliest DC comics I remember reading as a kid were reprints in various British publications, chiefly 'Superman, You're Dead... Dead... Dead!' from Action Comics #399 (April 1971), a shockin...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2023/02/batman-detective-comics-dc-heroes.html

It's almost two years since we launched the DC Heroes & Villains Collection , the fortnightly graphic novel collection of which I'm editor and chief feature writer (and over three years since I ...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2022/12/dc-heroes-villains-collection-festive-50.html

I posted this on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, but it deserves a post here as well, if only to raise the consciousness of Existential Ennui from the freezing reefersleep it's slipped into. Wha...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2022/11/guardians-of-galaxy-ultimate-guide-new.html

The next release going out to DC Heroes & Villains Collection subscribers is significant, because not only does it boast one of the volumes I was keenest to include in the collection when I ...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2022/03/meanwhile-in-dc-heroes-villains.html

Time was I would mark the end of the year with a post , or even a series of posts (ha! those were the days...), rounding up everything I'd read or watched or listened to or, sometimes, worke...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/12/the-existential-ennui-review-of-year.html

Something I don't really get into in my bonus feature on Tim Truman, Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert in the DC Heroes & Villains Collection edition of Hawkworld – which has just been published ...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/12/on-tim-truman-and-dc-heroes-villains.html

Something I neglected to mention in my piece on Brian Bolland's Joker comic book covers in the back of the DC Heroes & Villains Collection edition of Joker: Last Laugh – which has just be...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/05/brian-bollands-first-joker-cover.html

A little remarked-upon aspect of the graphic novel partwork I'm editing, the DC Heroes & Villains Collection – well, little remarked-upon by me, anyway – is that if you subscribe to the coll...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/03/free-stuff-dc-heroes-villains.html

Further to this post on the graphic novel partwork I'm editing, the DC Heroes & Villains Collection : I've noticed in the Facebook member's group (there's also a public Facebook page ) that some...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/03/testing-testing-coming-soon-in-dc.html

Here's something I've been working on for well over a year now. The DC Heroes & Villains Collection is a fortnightly partwork comprising 100 hardback graphic novels, collecting comics storie...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2021/01/introducing-dc-heroes-villains.html

I'm breaking my blogging silence (blame the pandemic for the lack of blog posts this year – it's as good an excuse as any... and it actually has been a tough year in some respects, as it ha...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2020/10/dc-comics-cover-art-by-nick-jones-out.html

What scant posts there have been on here of late have been to do with comics – those are, after all, what have been preoccupying me both personally and professionally over the past year or so ...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2020/02/a-ripleys-game-reprise-1974-us-knopf.html

I've barely had time to think over the past few months, let alone blog. Besides editing Star Trek Magazine – the next one, #74, is out in January – and related specials – a Star Trek: Voyag...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/12/a-big-long-list-of-comics-graphic.html

Back in July, over successive days one weekend, there were two distinct but related comic marts, both titled Comics And Beer, in two different Brighton pubs. One was in a couple of smallish r...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/08/mostly-80s-comics-cavalcade-brighton.html

Anyone with even half an eye on events at this past weekend's San Diego Comic-Con 2019 can't have failed to notice the revelations about the forthcoming Patrick Stewart-starring Star Trek: Picard...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/07/star-trek-magazine-71-picard-borg-jeri.html

I've documented most of the early–mid 1980s Gerry Conway/Doug Moench/Don Newton/Gene Colan et al Batman and Detective Comics , er, comics I've collected – in fact have pretty much finished c...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/07/80s-comics-cavalcade-back-issue-bonanza.html

I wasn't planning on commemorating Anthony Price, who died last Thursday, 30 May ; I was content to let my 2011 two-part interview with the spy novelist stand as tribute (along with all my ...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/06/anthony-price-19282019.html

So much for maintaining my blogging momentum this year: this is the first post I've managed since I declared my intention to blog more frequently two bloody months ago. I've been pecking awa...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/04/80s-comics-cavalcade-collecting-conway.html

It's perhaps a measure of the neglect Existential Ennui has suffered in recent times – on my part I mean; whatever commensurate neglect there's been on the part of the readership is neither her...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/02/first-editions-of-raymond-chandlers.html

In my previous 80s Comics Cavalcade post I mentioned how Doug Moench and Gene Colan's 1983–84 stint on Detective Comics and Batman made a big impression on 13–14 year-old me. But what I did...

http://www.existentialennui.com/2019/01/80s-comics-cavalcade-detective-comics.html