Scotland Yardie
These are caricatures by dint of their very likeness, tautologies of themselves, buckled to the fast dialogue and tic tac caustic critique, working a humour pitched towards a knowing affection for its sources and illustrious originals whilst simultaneously pointing pointingly to their defects. Knowing the detectives and their shows you’re ready for the shoe-horned well-known premises, the outsider cop and his sidekick buddy and all that jazz where a fast and hilariously layered plot makes its contrivance answer all purposes and understand each swift visual interruption and eruption that the ‘Scotland Yardie’ graphic novel represents.
Richard Marshall reviews Bobby Joseph and Joseph Samuels’ Scotland Yardie graphic novel.
Patricide: An American Mess
At its best, Patricide is devastating, thanks to Foy’s hyper-detailed account of Pat as it follows him from a broken childhood through a debauched adolescence and concludes, in adulthood, with his search for understanding and forgiveness. Throughout, Foy wades through the complexities of a damaged life behind closed doors, siphoning out the marrow of these experiences beyond the margins that are so often not discussed and even actively forgotten.
Saxon Baird reviews Patricide by D. Foy.