Archive | July, 2008

The comic to change my reading life – updated

27. July 2008

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If I may just borrow the blog and your good selves for a moment for a sort of personal update. A while ago now I did an article for this blog about Captain Britain. (FPI article) in which I put forward the idea that my entire comics reading life could be placed firmly at the [...]

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Propaganda – Prepared to be astonished all over again

26. July 2008

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Astonishing X-Men 25 by Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi. As I wrote some time ago, I loved the Joss Whedon & John Cassaday run on Astonishing X-Men. The full review of Volumes 1-3 is here. But to give you an idea of what I thought: Astonishing X-Men is the only X-Men book you really need [...]

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Matthew Craig on BBC Radio WM Sunday 27th

26. July 2008

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Matthew Craig, recently featured on the blog here and reviewed here has written to let us know of a forthcoming radio appearance: I thought I’d let you know that we – Donato Esposito, Jack Davies and I – will be appearing on BBC Radio WM’s Carl Chinn Show this Sunday (July 27th), to discuss Bostin [...]

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Get Your Video War On

26. July 2008

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By now I imagine most of you reading this will be aware of Get Your War On, the political cartoon by David Rees, which has been a constant source of funny for a log time now. But it’s now being turned into an animated series available at 23/6. And they’ve done a good job on [...]

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Justice Department lingerie

25. July 2008

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Mark at Bad Librarianship (via Matthew Badham) brings an expectant world news of …. drum roll, please… Judge Dredd underpants! Are these standard issue Justice Department knickers, I wonder? I’d have thought Dredd might need something with some padding around the back to make sitting on that bike all day more comfortable and prevent chafing. [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

25. July 2008

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Over on the Blank Slate blog Kenny has just posted up a little more on the forthcoming second BS collection of translated work from German comics creator Mawil; it goes under the title Meister Lampe in German, but the pun (something to do with rabbits and lights) doesn’t translate so well into English so here [...]

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Batman’s dog issues

25. July 2008

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You might remember a few days ago I mentioned how a list PETA had made up of animal friendly superheroes was altered after the Dark Knight opened, with the Batman being removed because of scenes involving him fighting dogs. Simon Owen at Bloggasm followed it up, talking to the post’s writer, Christine Doré, who wondered [...]

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“He woke, and remembered dying.” Best Science ficiton opening lines

25. July 2008

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IO9 has compiled a list of great opening lines from science fiction, supported with some reasons as to why they selected them. The above quote comes from one of my all-time favourite authors, Ken MacLeod (from the Stone Canal) and I can see why they chose it; its one of those opening lines that grabs [...]

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Edinburgh Zine and Small Press gig this weekend

25. July 2008

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This Saturday sees the Edinburgh Zine and Small Press Fair, which is due to take place from 12 noon to 5pm in the upstairs section of the Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh. Malcy Duff tells me he will be in attendance and he has a new comic, the 4th 4th Bridge, which has just [...]

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No sci-fi signing at the RSC

25. July 2008

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The Royal Shakespeare Company have declared a ban on the signing of science fiction materials at the stage door on their current Hamlet production. With David Tennant and Patrick Stewart involved the RSC has, understandably, generated a lot more interest across a wider potential audience than they might other wise have done, but say this [...]

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Kev Sutherland pulls his socks up at Edinburgh

25. July 2008

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Here in sunny Edinburgh we locals are girding our loins (and indeed loining our girds, you can’t be too careful) for the annual madness we call the Edinburgh Festival to descend upon us. The world’s largest arts festival kicks off in August and between the various festivals and the hundreds and hundreds of different shows [...]

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Alice in movie land

25. July 2008

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Tim Burton looks to have found the actress to play Alice in his forthcoming adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s wonderful (not to mention incredibly clever) fantasy Alice in Wonderland. Mia Wasikowska, an Australian actress, is said to be in final negotiations for the role according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which should begin shooting this [...]

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Katherine confesses her guilty BL passion

25. July 2008

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Everybody’s got cultural guilty pleasures, or semi-guilty pleasures: that cartoon series you loved as a kid and can’t stop loving even though you should have outgrown it, the stack of Laurell K. Hamilton novels that you hide behind the sofa when you’ve got company (“guilty pleasures” and Laurell K – was that a subtle joke? [...]

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Vanity Fair pastiches the New Yorker

24. July 2008

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Vanity Fair’s August cover pokes fun at the recent New Yorker cover (see here) which generated controversy when it depicted Barack Obama and his wife in a satirical cartoon (I still say he should have laughed it off and worn that image on a T-shirt). Apparently although they are taking the mickey a little at [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

24. July 2008

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Its Thursday afternoon so it must be time for the man who likes to Strip! for radio, Alex Fitch, to tell us about some of his upcoming audio treats and some recent broadcasts which are available now online to listen to if you missed them first time round; as usual check the Panel Borders blog [...]

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