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• Save Kids TV campaign – Petition the PM!

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2007

  Pact has set up a petition on the Number 10 website to highlight the plight UK kids TV is under, highlighted by the Save Kids TV campaign who have a comic about the issue on ROK Comics, republished below. To… Read More ›

• New Dennis the Menace animation in the works

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2007

  Beano character Dennis the Menace is being updated in a new animated version for CBBC. Trade magazine Broadcast and other sources report DC Thomson is working with animation company Red Kite to deliver the 52 x 12-minute Dennis & Gnasher… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday Sputnik!

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2007

  Space flight is 50 years old this week and although the space race may well have been borne by the desire to develop bigger and better nuclear weapons – according to the accounts of Russian scientists reported in USA Today… Read More ›

• Wallace & Gromit Return

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2007

  Huzzah! Variety reports Aardman Animation’s Wallace & Gromit are back at work, with a new film to be shown on BBC1 at Christmas next year. Trouble at’ Mill, co-written by Nick Park and Bob Baker, sees Wallace and Gromit open… Read More ›

• Jeff Hawke – Lunar 10

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2007

  

  The Jeff Hawke Club have released their Cosmos special, Lunar 10. This 192 page softcover book collects 10 different complete Jeff Hawke stories set on the Moon. It includes Time Out Of Mind, originally published in the Daily Express in… Read More ›

• Titan Magazines’ new DC title

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2007

  Titan Magazines recently launched a fourth comic licensed from DC Comics. DC Universe Presents Batman Superman follows on the heels of Superman Legends, Batman Legends and Justice League Legends to the UK news stand. Featuring stories and artwork never previously… Read More ›

• New Eagle Times

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2007

  (with thanks to Richard Sheaf): The latest issue of Eagle Times, the quarterly journal of the Eagle Society (the Society is dedicated to the memory of Britain’s national picture strip Weekly – Eagle) has just been published. Volume 20, issue… Read More ›

• Moffatt on Tin Tin

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2007

  (with thanks to Jeremy Briggs) The Hollywood Reporter and Empire Magazine reports that Steven Moffat, acclaimed writer on Doctor Who and Jekyll, is to write the trilogy of Tintin films being overseen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. The directors… Read More ›

• Book Palace British Sale – and Mart News

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2007

  (with thanks to Richard Sheaf): The Book Palace has finally started listing some of theirextensive stock of British comics and annual online. The next “ABC” show will be on Sunday 7th October from noon, in London. It’s the best comics… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away #13 counting down

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2007

  Issue 13 of ace Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away — a stunning A4 sized full colour glossy magazine published three times a year — is due for release at the end of October, but a teaser image of the cover… Read More ›

• Miss Moneypenny Dead

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2007

  We were sorry to hear the news that actress Lois Maxwell died at the weekend. Best known as the actress who starred as M’s long-suffering secretary Miss Moneypenny in fourteen James Bond movies, she appeared in over 50 films (her… Read More ›

• Virgin Comics’ Dan Dare – More News

  By John Freeman on 29 September 2007 • ( 1 )

  A few more images have started to surface regarding the upcoming Dan Dare comic from Virgin. This one, taken from the Virgin website, shows the variant cover to Issue #1 by artist Greg Horn, best known for his work on… Read More ›

• Classic Hammer Films on DVD

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2007

  15 October 2007 sees the long awaited UK release of The Brides of Dracula and The Evil of Frankenstein on DVD, courtesy of Showbox Entertainment. The Brides of Dracula is Peter Cushing’s second outing as Van Helsing and David Peel’s… Read More ›

• George Bush Speaks his Mind

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2007

• Moore-Reppion: Radio Stars

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2007

  This afternoon (Thursday, 27 September, 2007, 5.00pm BST) London and Web radio station Resonance FM will be broadcasting a telephone interview with Albion and Wild Girl writers Leah Moore and John Reppion. Leah Moore (daughter of Alan) and her husband… Read More ›

• Knight Rider returns

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2007

  

  Variety has reported that US broadcaster NBC is bringing back Knight Rider, the show created by Glen Larson starring David Hasselhoff that was such a success for them between 1982 and 1986. Taking a leaf from the recent Transformers movie, expect… Read More ›

• Halo: Holy Combat

  By John Freeman on 26 September 2007

  With all the media attention for the launch of Halo 3 a spoof cover of a Halo game, which seems to have kicked off around the ‘net in 2004 with the launch of Halo 2, has re-surfaced. Promotional copy appearing… Read More ›

• Doctor Who – Damned (or Cursed) To Reprint Forever?

  By John Freeman on 25 September 2007

  Neorama has put up new art for the first of IDW’s American Doctor Who comics and it shows that, once again, the early Doctor Who Weekly strips drawn by Dave Gibbons are going to be reprinted. The first of these,… Read More ›

• Luminous Spooks!

  By John Freeman on 21 September 2007

  There’s nostalgia and then there’s nostalgia. For some of us older types, it’s the 1966 World Cup, “Love Cats” by the Cure and TV21. For the owner of the web site linked here, it’s Luminous Spooks. I’d never heard of… Read More ›

• Story of 2000AD on Radio 4

  By John Freeman on 20 September 2007 • ( 2 )

  With BBC4 taken over by comics this month on TV, BBC Radio 4 is getting in on the act, too. The radio station will be broadcasting Futureshock! The Story of 2000AD this Saturday (22 September) at 10.30am, narrated by Phil… Read More ›

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