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The way it seemed to me at the time: Uncanny X-Men 501
“This ride is incredible, Warren. You’re really giving me one?” Says Cyclops, through a smile that punches a hole in the fourth wall. I laugh, imagine it’s not a question, and flick back a few pages....
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“Doomed to a life of unimaginable solitude”– Kapow! 2011 Unimagined!
Aww, fuck. Might as well start off with a quote from Millar, the Instigator: “But I love that Kapow! is sold out. I want people to turn up, find that out and think: ‘Damn, I’m definitely going to get...
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There’s a blog post in there somewhere
Bryan Talbot creates Alan Moore, from Brainstorm Comix #1, 1975 Cheers to the Keeshman for the gimme. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
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Ghost Stories: Finding a Finder part 2
Being: the second of three posts on Carla Speed McNeil’s “aboriginal science fiction” comic Finder… He did not want to compose another Quixote —which is easy— but the Quixote itself. Needless to say,...
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“You know Judge Dredd? Well, he just hit on me!”– Thought Bubble 2011
As previously mentioned, the Mindless dream team of The Beast Must Die, Illogical Volume and Andrew “Mandrew” Hickey made it down to Leeds for this year’s Thought Bubble comics convention. These are...
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Dundee Comics Day, or “Sexy Future Batmen* Incorporated”
*and Batwomen, obviously! As anyone unlucky enough to follow me on twitter will know by now, I was at Dundee Comics Day yesterday with Botswanna Beast, Mister Attack, Ben Deep Space Transmissions and...
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2012 – in Mindless Mass Mind
The Beast Must Die: So frazzled, bedraggled and maybe even bedazzled we all arrived safely back from this year’s Thought Bubble 2012 comics festival in Leeds, which once again proved itself to be a...
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Crossing the Rubicon : Mister Attack at the halfway point of Transformers:...
Despite my seeming full mental breakdown after the first issue of Transformers: Regeneration One, I held on to my sanity well enough to continue buying it on a monthly basis. Didn’t take long for a...
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The Weegie Board presents – C.R.E.A.M. part 1
The Weegie Board will return at the same time next week with the second part of C.R.E.A.M.! Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
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The Weegie Board presents – C.R.E.A.M. part 2
You can read part 1 of this story here, or if a lifetime spent watching TV shows from other countries has given you a taste for watching seasonal specials months after their initial airing, you...
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GAH-dians More Like (Geddit?)
I’m going to become quite unpopular among my friends, I suspect, when I say that I didn’t like Guardians of the Galaxy very much at all. I didn’t *hate* it — it had an excellent cast, the effects work...
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The Multiversity 1
10:22 PM, I get an email. “New Arrival! BoJack Horseman is now on Netflix” 10:24 PM, I open the comic. The first page on the inside is an advert for BoJack Horseman. It has today’s date on it. Andrew...
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OMAC, What Is Best In Life?
Do you think that he’d even know? I’m not sure. He’s always so busy, isn’t he? The character and the book he starred in are a perfect match that way. I’ve been spending a lot of time round at Kirby’s...
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The Multiversity #1
There’s always a danger in reviewing the first [issue] of anything, of course, said the wise man. Yeah but fuck it mate seriously who cares? There’s your fair warning so. What follows may get silly....
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Nae Bad for a Corridor Wee Corridor Stuffed With Toys: A Sample Dialogue
“Have you guys got The Best of Milligan and McCarthy in?” “…” “You know, the big hardback collection of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy comics?” “…” “Peter Milligan? Guy who wrote Enigma and...
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I Am Not a Comics Critic #1: Shanzhai
SARAH HORROCKS – BRUISE (self-published, 2014) From the cool blue risotone colour to the grey static hiss of the prose, Bruise is heavy on the cyberpunk stylings: The comic itself follows up on that...
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Fight Club 2: A Rebuttal
This comic is a machine, but that’s okay because this is a machine age. Fighting is useless. Fight Club is useless. Give in. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
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How to Pass Through a Portal
Here, the map is the territory. This is about to get seriously earnest, adjust your sets… I’ve read Grant Morrison comics from the age of 7, on and off (I was too much of a wimp for 2000AD as a teen...
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Howl
I don’t get to the comic shop as often now as I used to. I still tell myself that I love comics, and superheroes, and I do, deeply. I just… don’t get to the comic shop as often now as I used to. Of...
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Justice: A Joint Effort, Sort Of
AND IT CAME TO PASS that fully paid-up member of women Maid of Nails, deep Dundonian Botswana Beast and comics artist/aesthetic superstar Dan McDaid had many thoughts regarding the Justice League. The...
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