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New 2000AD-inspired Zarjaz ‘zine, FutureQuake and more out in time for Thought Bubble

By John Freeman on November 3, 2016

Zarjaz Issue 27 – Cover by Neil Roberts

The latest issue of the 2000AD-inspired fanzine Zarjaz (Issue 27), FutureQuake and other great FutureQuake Press titles are now available online from the Future Quake web shop.

Featuring a cover by Neil Roberts, the new Zarjaz, on sale at this weekend’s Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds, issue includes the great-looking strip “Raid on Caliban” featuring 2000AD characters The V.C.’s, written by Matt Sharp and drawn by David Broughton, an artist I definitely think worth watching.

“Raid on Caliban” written by Matt Sharp, drawn by David Broughton

In the same jam-packed issue, Peeps the droid delivers guest writer Jim Alexander, drawn by Neil Sims, and 2000AD Thought Bubble art competition winner 2014, artist Daniel Dwyer, join many other great creators with another selection of Tales from Tharg’s toy box.

Tales Of Mega-City One- Law In Exile. Written by Santiago Mayaud, art by Daniel Dwyer, letters by Bolt-01

Overall, it’s another cracking read, as you’d expect with editor Dave Evans delivering an other gem.

Writers on Zarjaz 27 are James Alexander, Jim Alexander, David Fenn, Ryan Hickling, Mike Lynch, Santiago Mayaud, Matt Sharp

Art by Chris Askham, David Broughton, Daniel Dwyer, Norrie Millar, Neil Sims, Sam Weller, PL Woods. Cover by Neil Roberts

Letters by Bolt-01

• Zarjaz 27 – 48 pages for the astounding price of £3.00 from www.futurequake.co.uk/shop

Cover by ECH

Also out now is the massive 96-page FutureQuake 2016 – Winter edition, with tales that find folk good and bad explore the problems of time travel, run for the presidency, swap their brain into a robot body and in the continuing saga of Idea Space the team take a pause to focus on Alan Chance. All this wrapped in a cover by ECH.

Writers on this jam-packed anthology are Matthew Allen, Alexander Altman, Carlos Angeli, Inderjit Bhullar, Marcello Bondi, Kevin Bovy, Jeff Bowles, Adam Breen, Ethan Burns, Matthew Comer, Lawrence Conquest, Mario Fernandez, Rob Jones, Andre Mateus, Norrie Millar, Chris Nicholson, Carlos Pozo, JJ Robinson, Lee Robson, Dave Tomas, Scott Twells and Dan Whiston.

Art by Adam Caudill, Rafael Chrestani, Bryan Coyle, ECH, Jaye Franklin, Aidan Gilman, Dan Goodfellow, Andrew Hartmann, Darren Stephens, Martina Marzullo, Matt Sandbrook, Fran Strukan, Gustavo Vargas, Denis Vermesse, Edward Whatley and Nathan Webb. Cover by ECH

Letters by Bolt-01, Brian Coyle, Cristian Docolomansky, Ken Ryenolds and Edward Whatley

• FutureQuake 2016 – Winter – 96 pages, trade paperback format, only £6.50 From www.futurequake.co.uk

Cover by RH Stewart

The season has changed, the nights are drawing closer and there is a chill in the air. Time to hunker down and read the latest collection of tales from Something Wicked. In the latest 100 page issue there are Demons, Hauntings, posessions, another race for the presidency and at least one psychotic home appliance. All this is wrapped in a cover by RH Stewart.

Writers on Something Wicked 2016 are Marcello Bondi, Karl Brandt, Nick Bryan, Alec Charles, Kirill Chernov, Matt Finney, Steven Fraser, Russell Hillman, Emmet Kiernan, David McCluskey, Dan McKee, Scott Melrose, George Pickett, Patrick Scattergood, Chris Tresson, Virgil Yendell

Art by George Coleman, Damian Johnston, Łukasz Kowalczuk, Mattia Marini, Martina Marzullo, Rui Mendes, Joe Palmer, Pavlos Pavlides, Marco Renna, Barry Renshaw, RH Stewart, David Thomas, Scott Twells, Denis Vermesse, Glyn White, P. L. Woods. Cover by RH Stewart

Letters by Bolt-01, Valia Kapaldi, Barry Renshaw, Ken Reynolds, Glyn White

• Something Wicked 2016, only £6.50 From www.futurequake.co.uk/shop

Cover by D’Israeli

Finally – don’t miss the latest issue of Dogbreath (Issue 32) , on the case once again to bring to trial the finest stories the Galactic Crime Commission can dig up. Dirty deeds – check. Time travelling murderer – check. Betrayal – check. All wrapped in a wonderful cover by the one and only D’Israeli.

Letters by Bolt-01, Cristian Docolomansky Also in this issue Leigh Shepherd continues his ‘Case File’ review by looking at ‘Tales from the Doghouse’, ‘The Town That Died Of Shame’ and ‘Incident At The Birth Of The Universe’

48 pages for the astounding price of £3.00!

Writers on Dogbreath Issue 32 are Alexandar Altman, Alec Charles, Richmond Clements, Paul Eldridge, James Feist, Matt Sharp

Art by David Broughton, Patrick Brown, James Feist, D’Isreali, Scott Twells and JP Vilchis.

• If you’re heading to Thought Bubble in Leeds this weekend, you’ll be able to buy current and back issues of FutureQuake, Zarjaz and more from editor Dave Evans at the FutureQuake table which is table 87 in the New Dock Hall

• Find all FutureQuake titles online at www.futurequake.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.