Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2019

Celebrating a year of blogging

Some comics I've recently reviewed It's June 2018, and I've been freed from the life-consuming stress of A-levels. With my newfound freedom, all I want to do is read comics all day - but what if I could turn my love for the graphic novel into something more productive? The name came first. Paperback in Action probably sounds a bit silly, but at the time I thought it was genius and wanted to claim it before anyone else did - so I set up my blog straight away. This site started off with a garish purple and gold colour scheme in a poor attempt to recreate the feel of the poster for Infinity War , complete with an Avengers font and low-res images of various comic book characters. Still, like furnishing a new home, I felt proud of the little internet space I'd created and was ready to get writing. In my first post , I described Paperback in Action as "a chronicle of all the new books I find, and a place to share my thoughts on some old favourites". My go...