Archive | May, 2008

Waltz with Bashir

22. May 2008

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The BBC’s Razia Iqbal reports from the Cannes Film Festival where the Israeli animated film Waltz With Bashir is apparently the front runner for the prestigious Palme d’Or (no, it isn’t about a dancing doctor from Deep Space Nine). The film, created by director Ari Folman, draws on his own time having to perform national [...]

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Comics Day at the Dundee Literary Festival

22. May 2008

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The Dundee Literary Festival will be taking place from Thursday 19th of June to Sunday the 22nd and, in addition to a fine range of authors and workshops (from Ian Rankin to workshops in how to write for television) there’s an entire day (the Sunday) put aside as Comics Day. How great is that?!?! The [...]

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Pratchett On the Ropes

21. May 2008

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John Humphry’s guest on BBC Radio 4′s On the Ropes programme (where he interviews “successful people who have weathered storms in their careers”) yesterday was none other than the great Terry Pratchett, discussing his career, Saint Peter shoplifting one of his Discworld books and how he is coping with the Alzheimer’s diagnosis he recently revealed. [...]

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George Takei to marry longtime partner

21. May 2008

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George Takei, forever beloved to generations of fans for his portrayal of Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek (and his more recent appearances in Heroes), has announced that he and his longtime partner Brad Altman, will take advantage of the recent overturning of the ban on gay marriage in California (take that, Arnie!) and tie the [...]

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Mike Western passes away

21. May 2008

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Steve Holland has sad news of the passing of Mike Western at the age of 83. Mike was a stalwart of the British comics scene since the 1950s, working on titles from Buster to Valiant, Battle Picture Weekly to Roy of the Rovers. I’m not even going to attempt to sum up Mike’s contribution to [...]

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Russell T Davies leaves Doctor Who

21. May 2008

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Its the shock news that really we’ve all been expecting for some time – Russell T Davies, the man most responsible for the spectacular resurrection of the world’s longest-running science fiction series is leaving Doctor Who, it was announced late yesterday. As I said, it isn’t really a shock as Russell has made clear on [...]

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Propaganda is on the Contraband

21. May 2008

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Contraband Written by Thomas J Behe Art by Phil Elliott / Ian Sharman with grey tones by Cherie Donovan Beneath Contraband’s ultra stylish cover lies a tale of high action and drama in a very near future where technology and communications have become inescapable. And just because it’s a tech heavy book doesn’t mean it’s [...]

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L’Assiette au Beurre

20. May 2008

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Sometimes you’re just idly browsing the web or scanning your feeds without looking for anything really, when suddenly you stumble over something so wonderful, so sublime that you wonder how you hadn’t seen this before. It is completely awe-inspiring, it’s been around for quite a while and still it is totally new and fresh. Today, [...]

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More naughty schoolgirls on the way

20. May 2008

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Ealing Studios announced some new British movie projects at the Cannes Film Festival, including news that they planned a follow-up to the recent St Trinian’s film, St Trinian’s: the Legend of Fritton’s Gold. According to an article on the BBC site the movie will be like “Goonies meets The Da Vinci Code” – although presumably [...]

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Super-Sam – Face Three to Face Two

20. May 2008

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This week Darryl has a special treat for us with a two-page Super-Sam, wrapping up a segment of the story so far, but here he is to tell us more about it himself: “Well, this episode draws to a close the first part of the Super Sam and John of the Night Story, which I’ve [...]

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Andy Winter has true Brit

20. May 2008

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You might remember Eagle award-winning Andy Winter’s name appearing on the blog recently when I posted a review of his very powerful new comic Septic Isle. Matthew Badham just pointed me in the direction of Andy’s own blog where he’s just posted news of another new title, Brit Force, the first issue of which boasts [...]

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Sliders competition

19. May 2008

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Fans will be delighted to hear that the Emmy-nominated science fiction series Sliders will soon have the fourth season DVDs appearing on shelves. The dimension-hopping series which saw the cast ‘slide’ through portals between a wide variety of alternative Earths, will have a box set of the fourth season hitting stores from today (the season [...]

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Podcasting from Bristol

19. May 2008

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Barry Nugent drops me a line to say that the Geek Syndicate podcast recorded at panels during the recent Bristol International Comics Expo is now up for your aural delight. From the Geek Syndicate description: “Well this is it, our first feature from this year’s 2008 Bristol Comic Expo. In this special we have for [...]

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Indy premieres at Cannes

19. May 2008

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The fourth Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, with the BBC’s Mark Savage seemingly quite pleased with this long-awaited flick: “All the classic ingredients are thrown into the mix – murky temples with devilish contraptions, ancient pictographs scrawled on walls, and horrible creepy-crawlies scurrying over the [...]

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Propaganda looks at Echo. The next big project from Terry Moore

19. May 2008

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Echo # 1 Written and illustrated by Terry Moore Echo is the new series from Terry Moore, much loved round these parts for his series Strangers In Paradise (link to the review of SiP). When that series ended many of us wondered what he was going to do next and although this technological chase thriller [...]

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