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• Quick Switch

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2007

  The traffic to this blog on my downthetubes.net site wasn’t growing that quickly, but uploading revisions etc. was, I think, adding to my bandwith quite considerably. So I’ve switched the blog to Google’s own host. There will be some hiccups… Read More ›

• Ringtones: The Ultimate Horror

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2007

  Ring tones are a matter of personal choice (I will confess to currently having Shaun the Sheep on my mobile, much to my wife’s despair no matter how much she likes the show), but imagine the sheer horror of your… Read More ›

• Time Piece Trivia

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2007

  Tipped off by SciFiTech over on scifi.com, I thought these rather nifty-looking Pixel Watches, available in white, brown or pink, reminiscent of Blake’s 7‘s teleport bands as featured in that inexplicably popular BBC show. Available from online store Red 5… Read More ›

• New Planet discovered

  By John Freeman on 25 April 2007

  The European Space Agency’s discovery of a new planet five times the size of the Earth that just might have water and thus could support life is great news, although it probably means we’ll now start getting scare stories about… Read More ›

• Weird Crime Stories

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2007

  It seems the bad year for Captain America just got that little bit worse. 6 News, a Florida TV station is reporting that a Central Florida doctor has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a costume party while… Read More ›

• Effluent Flows…

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2007

  A comment on the sewage disaster in the Foray of Firth, reported nationally here. I found this report in The Scotsman, which suggests that there’s quite a discharge of sewage into the Forth on a regular basis anyway, but no… Read More ›

• Second Life Star Trek

  By John Freeman on 20 April 2007

  Okay, this is just so wrong, but not entirely unexpected. Seems some creative types in the Second Life virtual community have got the drop on Perpetual Entertainment and produced their own Star Trek-styled avatars. (There’s quite a lot of Trek… Read More ›

• Spider-Man Muscial Madness

  By John Freeman on 20 April 2007

  Okay, I think we’re probably reaching Spider-Man saturation point here because after several rumours Marvel released a statement yesterday confirming that Spider-Man is indeed headed to Broadway … as a musical no less. Hot on the heels of the release… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Brant Parker

  By John Freeman on 18 April 2007

  God, people will be thinking I’m an incredibly morbid kind of bloke, which isn’t the case at all, but there’s been another death in the comics community. Just days after reporting the death of Italian artist Massimo Belardinelli (2000AD co-0creator… Read More ›

• The Perils of Beta Testing

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2007

• In Memoriam: 2000AD artist Massimo Belardinelli

  By John Freeman on 13 April 2007

  

  A 2000AD legend has passed

• Should Alan Moore be proud?

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2007

• Online Digital Comics Woes

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2007

  Just read this rather worrying note about poor customer service from digital comic store Direct2Drive on the Kung Fu Rodeo blog. Sounds to me like a lesson in how not to run your business in an age when comments on… Read More ›

• More Blair and Bush

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2007

• Create your own comics

  By John Freeman on 11 April 2007

  ROK’s new comics project, now in beta, is up and running – check out www.rokcomics.com — and we’ve had some terrific and positive feedback from a wide variety of comics creators. Delivery to mobile is still in progress but the… Read More ›

• Johnny "BC" Hart Dies

  By John Freeman on 9 April 2007

  76-year-old Johnny Hart, award-winning creator of the popular B.C. comic series and co-creator of The Wizard of Id with Brant Parker, died this weekend. He apparently suffered a stroke while working at his drawing table at home in Nineveh, Broome… Read More ›

• Promoting Comics rant

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2007

  Hmf. I’ve been trying to add old blog entries from previous blogs to this one, back dating as I go. I’m having little success doing this – it either works once, and then starts treating the entry as a modern… Read More ›

• Mite-Sized Judge Reid!

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2007

  Brilliant artist Gary Hall joins in this growing gallery of dangerous present day politicians adopting 2000AD-styled law giving with “Mite-Sized Judge John Reid”. Thanks, Gary!

• Zombie Captain America

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2007

  Thought you might appreciate this April Fool story Forbidden Planet’s Kenny Penman spotted via a German comics news site: a new Marvel book starring a zombie Captain America, drawn by Charlie Adlard… although given the popularity of zombies right now… Read More ›

• 2000AD Britain – It’s Really Happening

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2007

  Responding to an appeal for comic images of Britain inspired in part by news of the establishment of a Ministry of Justice, straight from the pages of 2000AD, the ever brilliant SMS sent me this image, hot on the heels… Read More ›

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