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It’s Cold Outside – but there’s no need to skate to your newsagents for your comics when Aces Weekly comes to you!

By John Freeman on January 17, 2024

Aces Weekly Volume 66, Week 5, is running now, the latest set of episodes of the long-running digital anthology created by David Lloyd. Too cold to get out and get it? You don’t need to! Click for it – just click for it – and it comes right at you, right through the blizzard and straight to your screens!

Fabulous cartooning and terrific storytelling from the famed and the infamous, including the beautiful, near lyrical “The Whale House” by Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable.

*“The Whale House” by and* ©️ *Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable, from Aces Weekly Volume 66, Week 5*

Also in this volume: “Serraq” by Chris Geary; “Kilgore Home Nursing” by Scott Shaw; “Sarajevo 1992”, by Rodolfo Santullo and Gonzalo Martinez; much more, plus behind themes “Extras” such as amazing character designs, too!

Subscribe for just £1 per week, in any currency, which gets you Volume 66, then 67, then 68, and then onward, all coming to you in seven weekly parts, one after the other, like an endless caravan through a fantastic desert landscape… Take a chance! Lend fate a hand!

For those who came in late, Aces Weekly is the exclusively online comic art magazine from David Lloyd, published on a Monday evening. Serials and shorts designed specifically for your tablet, laptop, desktop – and your SMART TV! – are ready to read at your command in massive, seven-week volumes featuring top talent from across the globe.

Subscribing for just £1 a week, in any currency, gets a continuing run of seven-part volumes of up to 150 pages, including Extras, coming directly to you in 20-page chunks every Monday night, one after the other.

Too good to be true? Not in the economical world of cyberspace, where direct to reader rules…

*“Valley of Shadows” is available to read for free in the Aces Weekly “Free Samples” section of the digital anthology’s official website |* ©️ *David Lloyd & David Jackson*

If you’d like to try before committing to subscribing, every one of the Aces Weekly previous volumes can be bought separately at here, and there’s a lot more to see for free in the “Free Samples” section of the site.

All volumes have up to 150 pages, including Extras, and feature the exclusive Week2Week facility, which links all of the serialised strips of any completed volume together to make a collection you can read straight through that’s as big as six regular comic books combined.

• Find out more and subscribe 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.