From the futuristic Aldebaran via the contemporary Lady S to Biggles flying in World War II skies, downthetubes’ reviews of Cinebook graphic novels have been moving backwards through time and the theme continues with the Papyrus book, The Rameses’ Revenge…. Read More ›
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Tube Surfing: The Dark, Fat Man, Milk and Mirabilis
• Here’s the trailer for Chris Lynch’s new cyberpunk/superhero comic The Dark, which is being published by Markosia (see news story on the downthetubes mobile blog). Written by Chris and with art by Rick Lundeen, it will be released later… Read More ›
In Review: Biggles – Spitfire Parade
James Bigglesworth, popularly known as Biggles, is one of those fictional characters that has entered the British public consciousness whether or not they have read any of the novels or short stories written by Captain WE Johns. The first Biggles… Read More ›
In Review: Lady S Volume One – Here’s To Suzie!
If you are looking at the cover and thinking that Lady S could to be a story along the lines of Modesty Blaise then you are not far off the mark. Like Modesty, Suzan Fitzroy has a complicated, and not… Read More ›
In Review: Aldebaran – The Catastrophe
Created by a Brazilian and originally published in French, Aldebaran was never going to be that traditional a story for British bande dessinee publisher Cinebook to translate into English for the first time. Set on the human colony world of… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Thursday 21 May
• ComicBitsOnline is wondering why Britain’s biggest comic publisher has not been nominated for an Eagle Award — and it’s not DC Thomson, Panini or Titan but Cinebooks Ltd., which now publishes some 40 top quality comic albums a year… Read More ›