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• Ex Astris Continues in Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  

  Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll) and I have just completed work on the second episode of “Secrets of Ceres”, the Ex Astris prequel strip running in science fiction comic magazine Spaceship Away, which goes to the printers soon. There were… Read More ›

• Ask Alan!

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  Joe Gordon from Forbidden Planet International has been in touch to let us know that as a follow up to their cracking big interview with Alan Moore, conducted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid (Part One here, Part Two here), the pair… Read More ›

• What’s Chores? No Heroics on ITV1 tonight…

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  The second episode of the ITV2 superhero comedy No Heroics, produced by Tiger Aspect, will be getting its first airing on ITV 1 at 11.35pm. The six-part series features a group of British off-duty superheroes living their day to day… Read More ›

• New Garth on MyEBook

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  

  The first new adventure of longtime Daily Mirror hero Garth, which has already been published on the British newspaper’s web site, have now been collected and are available in an online format from British e-publisher myebook.com. As noted in an… Read More ›

• Planetary Stories with a British flavour…

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  (via writer Erwin K. Roberts): The coming of the new year also brings new issues of the quarterly sister web magazines Planetary Stories and Pulp Spirit, described by their editor as an online homage to the S-F pulp magazines of… Read More ›

• Weetabix to launch new Shaun the Sheep Promo

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Shaun the Sheep creators Aardman have teamed up with Weetabix to launch a special promotion on over 20 million packs of Weetabix, Minis, Bitesize and Ready Brek in the UK. Yes – that’s right. 20 million boxes of Shaun covered… Read More ›

• Commando Webbing: 12 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Over Christmas the boffins on the Commando Mag site launched a sneek attack under the radar and added a fourth complete on-line Commando story before they had even finished the third. Last Laugh is a World War II story of… Read More ›

• Paul Cornell Signing in London

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Captain Britain and Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell will be signing copies of the Captain Britain and MI13 – Secret Invasion graphic novel, the first collection of the Marvel Comics series, at Forbidden Planet later this week (Thursday 15th January)…. Read More ›

• New Judge Dredd Movie: First Look

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  (via Rufus Dayglo and I09): 2000AD artist Jock has posted some designs for the new Judge Dredd film online, prompting excitement from fans hoping this time round the movie won’t turn into the disappointment for many of the Sylvester Stallone… Read More ›

• Tintin is 80!

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Happy birthday Tintin! 80 years ago this weekend (on 10 January 1929), Hergé’s Tintin made his first appearance in Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly children’s supplement of Le XXe Siècle. With Steven Spielberg working on a Hollywood film of the… Read More ›

• Woolworths RIP

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009 • ( 3 )

  What is the least popular of the current batch of Doctor Who action figures? If the closing down sales in Woolworths were anything to go by it was the Destroyed Cassandra, a toy which rather looks like the sprue left… Read More ›

• Panel Borders Podcast News

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009

  

  Alex Fitch of ResonanceFM and Panel Borders has been in touch with information on his new broadcasts / podcasts: On Air Now: Strip – The work of Raymond Briggs The UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books returns after… Read More ›

• Fox Challenged on Watchmen

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009

  Above: the latest promotional video for Watchmen featuring more on the Minute Men’s role in the movies story and includes brief interviews with Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons who worked on the graphic novel with comic’s writer Alan Moore. By… Read More ›

• Ex Astris on Clickwheel

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  

  The Ex Astris strips first featured on ROK Comics are now appearing on Rebellion’s iPod and iPhone service Clickwheel. Ex Astris is a multi-strand CGI-created strip written by John Freeman and drawn by Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll). The strip… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 8 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  • Things to buy this month – Marvel Heroes #3 from Panini UK, which allegedly features an Iron Man story by Al Ewing and Kev Walker, and Judge Dredd Megazine #280, on sale now in UK newsagents, which has the… Read More ›

• Frost, Pegg for TinTin?

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  After what seems like months of no news on the project since it was first announced back in May last year, reports are appearing online suggesting Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have reportedly signed up to play the Thompson Twins… Read More ›

• In Review: Aya of Yop City

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  • Written by Marguerite Abouet • Art by Clement Oubrerie • UK Publisher: Jonathan Cape • Released: 15 January 2009 For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is… Read More ›

• Countdown To Hi-Ex

  By Jeremy Briggs on 6 January 2009

  The first British comics convention of the year, Hi-Ex, will be taking place at the Eden Court in Inverness over Valentine’s weekend, 14 and 15 February. Guests this year will include 2000AD artists Mick McMahon and Colin MacNeil, Dan Dare… Read More ›

• Mike Battle: Stirred, Not Shaken!

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  For years Sgt Mike Battle, the creation of artist-writer Graham Pearce, has been defending America (and sometimes her allies) from harm… but in his latest adventure he has to call in some help in the form of a certain British… Read More ›

• More Manga in Barrow

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  Kate Holden from IndieManga has been in touch to let us know she’s running another Manga workshop in Barrow. “Bookings won’t be open for a week or two yet, but it’s still free of charge and will be at Barrow… Read More ›

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