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• New Airfix Doctor Who Kits

  By John Freeman on 16 January 2008 • ( 1 )

  Airfix, the British model kit manufacturer, had many problems last year attempting to get the first of their new Doctor Who kits, Welcome Aboard, into shops in time for Christmas. The saga was even detailed on the BBC TV series… Read More ›

• 007 Exhibitions

  By John Freeman on 16 January 2008

  With the Royal Mail’s James Bond stamps already with us, the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming is continuing to be being celebrated with two separate exhibitions. For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond will… Read More ›

• Comics Grow Up!

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2008

  The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh will be putting on an exhibition on the historical development of comics and graphic novels from their earliest beginnings to their modern contemporary diversity entitled Comics Grow Up! Running during April and May… Read More ›

• One Book – One Edinburgh 2008

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2008

  One of the most successful original graphic novels of 2007 was the Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. This was created for the One Book One Edinburgh reading campaign in Scotland’s capital in February 2007…. Read More ›

• Jeff Hawke Back Issues

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2008

  Back issues of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos and one of the special editions are now available from the SF strip’s fan club. These are as follows: Volume 1: Numbers 1, 2, 3 availableVolume 2: Numbers 1, 2, availableVolume 3: Numbers 1,… Read More ›

• Titan’s Dan Dare books to continue

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2008 • ( 2 )

  Contrary to reports on some web sites, the upcoming Titan Dan Dare book, Reign of the Robots, is not the last Titan collection. downthetubes spoke with the head of Titan Books this morning and the company is all set to… Read More ›

• New Torchwood Magazine features official comic

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2008

  The first ever official Torchwood comic strip debuts in the first issue of Titan’s Torchwood magazine, on sale 24 January. Written by Transformers legend Simon Furman, and drawn by SL Gallant (Marvel Adventures), The Legacy of Torchwood One sees a… Read More ›

• More from Moore-Reppion Duo

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2008 • ( 2 )

  Hot on the heels of the release of Space Doubles #1 from US publisher Th3rd World Studios (a five-issue mini-series in a flipbook format, emulating the old Ace doubles paperbacks) and the Raise the Dead hardback from Dynamite Entertainment which… Read More ›

• Read Yourself Raw Updated

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2008

  The latest update of UK-based comics site Read Yourself Raw includes previews of new book, comic and manga releases for March 2008, including Kafka’s The Trial, adapted by David Zane Mairowitz & Chantal Montellier and The Complete Terry & The… Read More ›

• Thunderbirds: End Of The Road

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2008

  Redan’s Thunderbirds comic has been cancelled with the current issue 89 being the last. The final issue comes with a free gift of a water pistol. With no repeats of the Thunderbirds series on British terrestrial television screens for some… Read More ›

• Spider-Man: Agent of SHIELD

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2008 • ( 1 )

  The latest issue of Panini UK’s Spectacular Spider-Man, #162, brings Peter Parker’s search for information on his parents to Edinburgh. In Local Hero, writer Ferg Handley and penciller Andie Tong have Spidey swinging through the Edinburgh skyline trying to find… Read More ›

• IDW Goes Junior

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2008

  Perhaps taking a leaf from UK Publishers such as Titan and Panini, US comics house IDW, best known as a publisher of horror, action, and SF comic books including Star Trek and Doctor Who, is launching a kid’s division titled… Read More ›

• Primeval: Less Pants

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2008

  Primeval actress and and former SClub 7star Hannah Spearritt has put a stop to “panty scenes” in the show’s second season. The actress, who plays reptile expert Abby Maitland in the ITV1 drama (but spent much of the first episode… Read More ›

• Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2008

  The latest issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos, Vol 4 Number 2, is now available. Bill Rudling’s 72 page A4 fanzine continues to provide full length reprinted Jeff Hawke stories from the Daily Express newspaper. The cover comes from The Helping… Read More ›

• Billy’s Birthday

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2008

  A belated tribute to the first Doctor of Doctor Who, William Hartnell. Had he lived, this fine actor would would have been 100 on Tuesday, 8th January. Born in London on 8th January 1908, Hartnell began acting professionally in 1924… Read More ›

• MamTor Music

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2008

  Not content with publishing some pretty cutting edge comics in the past few years, UK Publisher MamTor, run by my old mucker artist Liam McCormack Sharp (you’ll remmber him as now has its own music divsion via amazingtunes.com. “Mamtor” is… Read More ›

• Get Wasted!

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2008 • ( 1 )

  Comics writer Alan Grant (Batman, Judge Dredd) wants you to get Wasted! Grant is one of the big names behind Wasted, a new independent comic. It’s Earth’s new comic-book for today’s Youth gone wild!* Wasted features a cracking cover from… Read More ›

• Who writer Gary Russell Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2008

  With a new Doctor Who comic book on its way from IDW Publishing (and reprints of the Marvel UK/Panini Who strips already on sale only in the US via the company), comics site Broken Frontier has an interview with its… Read More ›

• Best Videos of 2007?

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2008

  It’s the time of year for “Best of..” lists and a look back at highlights of 2007, and here at downthetubes we thought our readers might be interested on what made it into the animated “all star” highlights over at… Read More ›

• New Journey to the Centre of the Earth

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2008

  RHI Entertainment, makers of TV dramas such as Earthsea, Flash Gordon, Tin Man and Pandemic, have produced a new version of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth as a two-hour telefilm which Jeremy Briggs tells me has… Read More ›

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