The top cop of a sprawling structure with over a million inhabitants has a triple homicide on her hands—and a new boss who can’t stand her. That’s the premise behind The Spire, launching next month, a new limited series from… Read More ›
Boom Studios
British Comic Shop Releases (3rd June 2015) – Custard Creams and Gunsuits!
Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (Wednesday 3rd June 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (June 2015 list here). This week sees the release of… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Arcadia #2
The second issue of Boom! Studios Arcadia written by British creator Alex Paknadel with art by Eric Scott Pfeiffer is released in comic shops tomorrow (3rd June 2015) – and here’s a sneak peek. Issue One went to a second printing, much… Read More ›
First Age Comics Top Ten Titles This Week (w/e 22nd May 2015)
Diamond has its top selling US comic lists, and so do the big London comic shops and many others. So here at downthetubes, we thought it high time we had our own Top Ten Comics chart documenting top… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (20th May 2015) – Resident Aliens and Holistic Detectives!
Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (Wednesday 20th May 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (May 2015 list here). Top of the list… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (13th May 2015) – Chrononauts, Star Slammers and Devlin Waugh!
Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (13th May 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (May 2015 list here). There are some great comics… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (22nd April 2015) – Time for some Lovelace and Babbage!
Here’s our list of both British and US comics on sale this week in comic shops (from Wednesday 22nd April 2015), complementing our monthly list of British graphic novel releases (April 2015 release list here). Top pick this week has… Read More ›
Arcadia Bound: An Interview with Writer Alex Paknadel
Alex Paknadel is a Lancaster-based comics writer, whose first work is being published in the form of Arcadia from US publisher Boom! Studios next month. Intrigued by the premise behind this new science-fiction story, I decided to have a chat… Read More ›
Sneak Preview: Arcadia #1 by Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeifer
When 99 per cent of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (11th February 2015) – Darth Vader, the Sculptor and the end of… Wild’s End!
Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 11th February 2015. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with a… Read More ›