This version of Ex Astris was originally published on the ROK Comics platform
Month: October 2007
Save Kids TV campaign – Petition the PM!
Pact has set up a petition on the Number 10 website to highlight the plight UK kids TV is under, highlighted by the Save Kids TV campaign who have a comic about the issue on ROK Comics, republished below. To… Read More ›
New Dennis the Menace animation in the works
Beano character Dennis the Menace is being updated in a new animated version for CBBC. Trade magazine Broadcast and other sources report DC Thomson is working with animation company Red Kite to deliver the 52 x 12-minute Dennis & Gnasher… Read More ›
Happy Birthday Sputnik!
Space flight is 50 years old this week and although the space race may well have been borne by the desire to develop bigger and better nuclear weapons – according to the accounts of Russian scientists reported in USA Today… Read More ›
Wallace & Gromit Return
Huzzah! Variety reports Aardman Animation’s Wallace & Gromit are back at work, with a new film to be shown on BBC1 at Christmas next year. Trouble at’ Mill, co-written by Nick Park and Bob Baker, sees Wallace and Gromit open… Read More ›
Jeff Hawke – Lunar 10
The Jeff Hawke Club have released their Cosmos special, Lunar 10. This 192 page softcover book collects 10 different complete Jeff Hawke stories set on the Moon. It includes Time Out Of Mind, originally published in the Daily Express in… Read More ›
Titan Magazines’ new DC title
Titan Magazines recently launched a fourth comic licensed from DC Comics. DC Universe Presents Batman Superman follows on the heels of Superman Legends, Batman Legends and Justice League Legends to the UK news stand. Featuring stories and artwork never previously… Read More ›
New Eagle Times
(with thanks to Richard Sheaf): The latest issue of Eagle Times, the quarterly journal of the Eagle Society (the Society is dedicated to the memory of Britain’s national picture strip Weekly – Eagle) has just been published. Volume 20, issue… Read More ›
Moffatt on Tin Tin
(with thanks to Jeremy Briggs) The Hollywood Reporter and Empire Magazine reports that Steven Moffat, acclaimed writer on Doctor Who and Jekyll, is to write the trilogy of Tintin films being overseen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. The directors… Read More ›
Book Palace British Sale – and Mart News
(with thanks to Richard Sheaf): The Book Palace has finally started listing some of theirextensive stock of British comics and annual online. The next “ABC” show will be on Sunday 7th October from noon, in London. It’s the best comics… Read More ›
Spaceship Away #13 counting down
Issue 13 of ace Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away — a stunning A4 sized full colour glossy magazine published three times a year — is due for release at the end of October, but a teaser image of the cover… Read More ›
Miss Moneypenny Dead
We were sorry to hear the news that actress Lois Maxwell died at the weekend. Best known as the actress who starred as M’s long-suffering secretary Miss Moneypenny in fourteen James Bond movies, she appeared in over 50 films (her… Read More ›