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Aces Weekly celebrates its septuagenarian status with plenty of new adventures, including new “Tara Togs”

By John Freeman on October 30, 2024

Digital comics anthology Aces Weekly, known across the planet for its wild craziness, is back with a bumper, big Volume 71 now, running now – a set that includes all-new “Tara Togs” stories from Stephen White.

Stephen White's excellent junior detective and adventurer, Tara Togs, join Aces Weekly in two new and exclusive stories, starting with spooky times in bonnie Scotland... © 2024 Stephen White — *Stephen White’s excellent junior detective and adventurer, Tara Togs, join Aces Weekly in two new and exclusive stories, starting with spooky times in bonnie Scotland… © 2024 Stephen White*

Not one other publisher even brushes close to the Aces Weekly team led by David Lloyd in what we do – and this time around he assures the mad mix on offer is madder than ever before!

So what’s to be chomped on in the coming seven parts of seven weeks from now?

The deadly double of Pablo Barbieri Guionista and Jorge Luis Gabotto are back with another of the strange tales of life on Earth in its last days of civilization as part of their “Outpost Z” collection; the excellent Stephen White graces Aces Weekly with some fabulous, new and exclusive, “Tara Togs” stories; Federico Zilli continues his deep drama of a family crisis in “The Right Place”; and Ertito Montana and Roberto Corroto take “Sicarios” into a mad place between heaven and hell (really!).

"The Order of the High Ones": another tale in the many tales to be told of the last days of Earth and its denizens, who were vainly guarded from ultimate defeat by its bastions of resistance, including the iconic Outpost Z... © 2024 Pablo Barbieri and Jorge Luis Gabotto — “**The Order of the High Ones**“: another tale in the many tales to be told of the last days of Earth and its denizens, who were vainly guarded from ultimate defeat by its bastions of resistance, including the iconic **Outpost Z**… © 2024 Pablo Barbieri and Jorge Luis Gabotto

In “**The Right Place**” Part Two, saddened and frustrated by a desperately unhappy father he cannot meaningfully communicate with, Luca decides to enlist the help of a noted psychic… © 2024 Federico Zilli

Previously in "Sicarios"...Kooky contract killers, Riot Girl and Phil, have been hired to dispose of mad magnate, Leon Skum, but are obliged to take part in a combat tournament to get close to him. In the final round, things don't quite go to plan and Riot ends up hovering between Life and Death in a different crucial match with a very special opponent... © 2024 Roberto Corroto and Ertito Montana — Previously in “**Sicarios**“… Kooky contract killers, Riot Girl and Phil, have been hired to dispose of mad magnate, Leon Skum, but are obliged to take part in a combat tournament to get close to him. In the final round, things don’t quite go to plan and Riot ends up hovering between Life and Death in a different crucial match with a very special opponent… © 2024 Roberto Corroto and Ertito Montana

Plus, the dark fantasy saga of “Celestial Hunters” continues from Marcello Bondi and Alessandro Amoruso; and this spiffing new volume introduces a new super hero named “Bright Darkness”, who is, appropriately, depicted very brightly by the fabulous, Niccolò Pizzorno via the script of Petri Hänninen!

In "Celestial Hunters", a cry for mercy in a deadly confrontation between the hunters and the hunted... © 2024 Marcello Bondi & Alessandro Amoruso — *In “Celestial Hunters”, a cry for mercy in a deadly confrontation between the hunters and the hunted… © 2024 Marcello Bondi & Alessandro Amoruso*

Aces Weekly welcomes the bright, and brilliantly-painted, debut in our pages of a new though very imperfect superhero : Bright Darkness, in “The Good Soldier”© 2024 Petri Hanninen and Niccolo Pizzorno Letters: Marko Latva-Nikkola

That’s the deal. For just £1 – that’s £1 – per week, in any currency, you get the full seven weekly parts of this fabulous volume from this week, which culminates in up to 150 pages, including Extras, followed by the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, etc, in a continuous run for just that continuing sub.

“Yes,” David enthuses, “we’re not ordinary. If you want ordinary, you need Brand Ecchh. We’re just very good and… very big.”

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as 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.