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• Retro Review: Skrull Kill Krew Omnibus

  By downthetubes Guests on March 4, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Lucy Braithwaite – or is it? – catches up on plenty of Skrullduggery!

• Retro Review: Marvel Platinum Deluxe Edition – The Definitive Thor

  By downthetubes Guests on February 2, 2026

  

  Enthralled by Norse Gods once again!

• Who Remembers Gold Tokens Super Mag Comics?

  By downthetubes Guests on January 16, 2026

  

  Norman Boyd looks back at an overlooked comics promotion of the 1960s…

• Retro Review: Darkhold

  By downthetubes Guests on December 28, 2025

  

  Lucy Braithwaite revisits the Darkhold – no, not the real one!

• Game On: Why UK Comics is ready for its own “Ally Pally” moment

  By downthetubes Guests on December 17, 2025

  

  British comics “White Paper” published by Comic Book UK

• Filling the gaps on “From Cents to Pence” – Alan Class comics info sought

  By downthetubes Guests on November 28, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  Can you help From Cents to Pence! author Rob Kirby?

• In Memoriam: Comic book inker, Andrew (Drew) Hennessy

  By downthetubes Guests on November 14, 2025

  

  His passion for art led to a lifelong dedication to a career in comic inking

• In Review: Heritage Comics Presents Spellbound: Damian Darke and I Don’t Want To Be a Witch!

  By downthetubes Guests on November 7, 2025

  

  DC Thomson’s latest collection reviewed

• Looking Back at Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2025

  By downthetubes Guests on October 23, 2025

  

  Finn Miles assesses this year’s “LICAF”

• The Future Was Then exhibition opens at London’s Cartoon Museum

  By downthetubes Guests on October 11, 2025

  

  Step into a weird, wonderful future!

• Bayeux tapestry set to return to the UK – in medieval times it was like an immersive art installation

  By downthetubes Guests on August 29, 2025

  

  Is the Bayeux tapestry a work of art?

• Brought to book: How some classic Fleetway Pocket comic war stories were returned to print

  By downthetubes Guests on August 11, 2025

  

  Go behind the scenes on restoring classic British comics

• Target: 2025

  By downthetubes Guests on July 29, 2025

  

  “Well, here we go again!”

• Celebrating 200 Years of The Glasgow Looking Glass

  By downthetubes Guests on July 3, 2025

  

  Did cosmic coincidence help bring life to the New Glasgow Looking Glass?

• Doctor Who lands at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

  By downthetubes Guests on July 1, 2025

  

  Don’t miss two special Doctor Who-related exhibitions

• Comics, Creativity and Hastings Comic Con with Colleen Douglas, Dennis Menheere and Lucy Sullivan

  By downthetubes Guests on June 11, 2025

  

  David Baillie meets three more creators heading to Hastings this weekend

• Comics, Creativity and Hastings Comic Con with Russell Mark Olson, Karrie Fransman and Ant Williams

  By downthetubes Guests on June 10, 2025

  

  Three creators talk creating comics and comic cons

• In Review: The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV’s First Sci-Fi Classic

  By downthetubes Guests on June 4, 2025

  

  A book 36 years in the making – well worth the wait, says Andrew Pixley

• Celebrating 20 Years of Hibernia Comics

  By downthetubes Guests on May 29, 2025

  

  Publisher David McDonald reflects on 20 years of plundering comic archives!

• Why Comics and Crowdfunding Are a Perfect Match

  By downthetubes Guests on May 15, 2025

  

  Tyler James muses on why comics are outperforming games, tech, publishing, and more