Orders for a very special 21st anniversary issue of British independent media magazine TRIPWIRE are now being solicited through Diamond – and the title will be available to order in bookshops at the end of this month. The special edition,… Read More ›
Much later than expected or planned, Print Media has just announced that the print edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 2 should now be on sale in newsagents from Thursday 20th June 2013. In a statement on its… Read More ›
The Digital Dandy Issue 10 is out now, and it’s full of top class comic fun! Here are 10 things you won’t want to miss… Kingo Bango, the Dandy‘s big, blue cover star, is offering rides into space! Or is… Read More ›
Timed to coincide with the release of new Warner Bros film, Man of Steel, the first issue of Titan Comics new Superman is on sale now. Featuring Henry Cavill in the lead role and directed by Zack Snyder, the Man… Read More ›
The Beano is celebrating 75 wonderful years of rebellious fun, farts and laughter at Southbank Centre’s Festival of Neighbourhood in London – and you can join in the party at Beanotown, a recreation of the fictional home of the… Read More ›
The Beano is letting loose Dennis the Menace’s trusty sidekick Gnasher, to raise funds for the Bristol Children’s Hospital this summer, as the famous cartoon dog joins forces with Aardman’s triple Oscar-winning character Gromit, for charity initiative Gromit Unleashed…. Read More ›
The Commando team, as well as managing to publish 104 issues of the comic each year, have been using the official Commando Comics Facebook page to give some behind the scenes info on their titles. This includes some of the… Read More ›
Bertie Buncle’s Chemical Uncle has uncovered a new scientific formula! It’s… DD9 (D + D + D x C + G + DtvV) x iTAS + GP + d.com = FUN For any non-mad scientists out there, that means… Digital… Read More ›
DC Thomson has announced that a strip based on digital trading card game Fight My Monster will appear in The Beano for the first time in its Saturday 3rd August issue, alongside Dennis and Gnasher, The Bash Street Kids and… Read More ›
Two comics projects inspired by an obscure British Pulp hero published by DC Thomson the 1930s are in the works, illustrating, perhaps, the potential pitfalls of reviving “Golden Age” heroes in the public domain. Six-Gun Gorilla was published in Wizard,… Read More ›
Kat and the crew from Retro-Active face an explosive end to a rooftop rescue, Bananaman has a face-off with the ultra-naughty League of Super Villains, there’s some (nearly) bare-faced cheek as Desperate Dan tries to take a bath in private,… Read More ›
Well, all right, that headline is a little misleading. I’m not talking about new stories (although there have been some, find out more below…). Rather, the release of Doctor Who: Nemesis of the Daleks, a Seventh Doctor comic collection from… Read More ›
Here’s the lowdown on the latest Commandos
Here’s the info on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s last remaining war comic
Britain’s longest-running comic has been dishing up anarchic fun since 1937 but went solely digital eaerlier this year. The Dandy app for iPad and other devices is now being relaunched and includes a regular Dandy digital comic you collect on… Read More ›
Here on downthetubes we regularly promote DC Thomson’s (and indeed the UK’s) last digest or ‘Picture Library’ comic, Commando, a title that has changed little in the half century since it was first published. As well as war, DCT’s boy’s… Read More ›
With our review of The Last Round, downthetubes has now reviewed all 18 of the XIII books published by Cinebook over the last two and a half years – from the beginning of the saga of the amnesiac agent in… Read More ›
It has been a long haul, 18 books over almost two and a half years, but Cinebook have stuck with Jean Van Hamme and William Vance’s amnesiac tattooed agent XIII and that has lead us all to the final book… Read More ›
Four new Commando comics went on sale today in all good newsagents – and actually, their distributions seems to be improving, as we’ve spotted them in several new places recently. Here’s the low down on the stories… Commando No 4583:… Read More ›
The latest issues of war comic Commando are on sale now in all good newsagents, and digitally via iTunes for iPad and iPhone. Here’s the rundown – and you can now also read a preview of each issue and “try… Read More ›