Panini UK’s new ThunderCats Magazine will be hitting the shelves on 22nd March 2012, a four-weekly magazine based on the brand new series of ThunderCats currently being shown on Channel 5 and Cartoon Network. The new title features stunning strips… Read More ›
Month: March 2012
British Comic Stamps: The Beano
Here’s the second of our ten posts to mark the release of the Royal Mail’s Comic Collection, celebrating 75 years of British comics. The Royal Mail have kindly sent us large versions of each stamp, so we thought we’d show… Read More ›
British Comics Stamps Launch this week
Stand by for First Class fun and frolics as Britain’s Royal Mail pays homage to the great British comic on ten new stamps launched this week. As we previously reported, The Comics Collection, commemorating Britain’s rich comic book heritage, features… Read More ›
US publisher IDW announces Judge Dredd title
US publishers IDW have announced they’re to publish a Judge Dredd ongoing series, which will launch this autumn. No creators have yet been announced but the title will feature original stories alongside classic reprints from 2000AD – a combination that’s… Read More ›
Thrill Electric now on iTunes
At long last the wait is over. The Thrill Electric is now free to read on iPad and iPhone via iTunes. This free ten-part (150 page) enhanced comic is set in Victorian Manchester and demonstrates the extraordinary parallels between the… Read More ›
Vanguard 2 anthology now online for free
The second issue of the UK indie anthology comic Vanguard is on sale now, continuing the stories that began in issue 1. As before, art duties on the International Woman of Mystery tale “Atomic Call” are by David Blankley, while… Read More ›
Charting the Marvelman saga
Comics expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid has posted story about the complicated story of Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane’s ongoing disputes, presented as a timeline, which you can see here. “On the 27th January, Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane finally settled… Read More ›
Marvelman Challenge!
As it’s recently been noted on several blogs and forums that the Dez Skinn-created Warrior was first published 30 years ago (including Lew Stringer’s terrific blog, see: http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/30-year-flashback-warrior-no1.html), I thought I’d throw down a challenge to readers and members of… Read More ›
Flesh chomps back into 2000AD
Time-travelling cowboys and murderous lizards are rampaging back into the pages of 2000AD, as Flesh returns again. One of the all-time classic strips from early 2000AD, Flesh made a thrilling, blood-splattering return to the weekly British anthology title last year… Read More ›
Go Undercover, Low Life!
From the world of Judge Dredd, comes Mega-City Undercover 02 – four tales about the idiosyncratic members of Justice Department undercover unit, known as the ‘Wally Squad’. But they patrol no ordinary patch – this is the Low Life, the… Read More ›