50 Volumes Young! Aces Weekly Powers On

By John Freeman on April 1, 2021

We’ve been hugely remiss and totally failed to make mention of the fact that Aces Weekly Volume 50 is now running! So let’s make up for that, just a little…

This landmark event for the digital comics anthology published by artist and writer David Lloyd offers the same mad, marvelous, and massive mix it usually is, but even more so this volume, “as if somehow the most identifiable and special specific nature of our personality was destined to be dominant in this milestone of volumes,” he noted recently.

Tube in now for fantastic adventure, surreal satire, crazy comedy, social comment, thrillers, drama, plus some storytelling at its most abstract, from new Aces as well as familiar faces, including Chris Geary, Marcello Bondi, David Leach, Federico Zilli, Lew Stringer, Jok and Santullo, Alejandro Velasquez, Tobias Taitt, Anthony Smith, Jack Briglio, Steven Legge, Fer Calvi, and Paul Rainey, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybrid, and Philip Alan Whitmore.

All that talent, and still just £1 per week, in any currency, which gets you Volume 50, 51, 52, etc, etc, in seven-weekly parts coming directly to you via cyberspace, like a guy on a bike but without having to answer the doorbell.

Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to this long running comics publication since it began!

• Check out Aces Weekly at www.acesweekly.co.uk

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.