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James Bacon - who has written 35 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Soulless – The Manga
At San Diego Comic Con in 2010, it was announced that the Gail Carriger novel Soulless would be turned into a manga, with Rem, who previously has worked on Tokyopop’s Vampire Kisses, looking after the artistic duties. The book was published in chapters on the online manga magazine Yen+plus and now it’s being collected by [...]
Continue reading...How an idea grows. Razorjack, the prose element.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
John Higgins is an established, well known and desirable artist. His work varies from massive painted pieces to his skilled fine-lined style in 2000AD. He has worked on characters from Hellblazer to Jonah Hex, Batman to Judge Dredd. He’s a two-time winner of the coveted Harvey Award (for his colouring on Watchmen and Batman: The [...]
Continue reading...Into the Woods
Monday, March 5, 2012
Into the Woods, A Fairytale anthology edited by Stacey Whittle. Aye Saw Comics It is a time of action, not talk, and here Stacey Whittle, a comics commentator for SFX’s blog and regular podcaster on Small Press Big Mouth, has decided to package together a wonderful selection of dark fairy tales. This black and white [...]
Continue reading...Róisín Dubh #2
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Roisin Dubh Issue 2 Written by Maura McHugh, art by Stephen Byrne from an idea of Robert Curley Atomic Diner The second issue in so many ways is like the second album: will it still be awesome, will it still keep you turning the pages, will its uniqueness have tired or be as strong? These [...]
Continue reading...Victory – web SF from Ireland
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
In a departure from comics, I have been considerably enthused by the release of a webisode of ‘Victory‘. An Irish Science Fiction series, funded by our national broadcaster, RTE, is and was unthinkable. I grew up loving Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Gerry Anderson, but there was always a dearth of SF from Ireland, in many [...]
Continue reading...A surprising nightmare in Boston
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
I am in Boston, New England, at Arisia, a science fiction convention with over 3,000 people along, where science meets adventure, and it’s definitely great craic. It’s similar to conventions in the UK, only they embolden their membership and encourage a real sense of fun here. The convention is fantastic, four days of continuous activities, [...]
Continue reading...Clements and Moore’s Turning Tiger
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Turning Tiger Richmond Clements and Alex Moore Renegade Arts Entertainment This is a superb comic, a really nice well told story of a young girl, Sarah who is intrinsically connected to a military robot fighting machine, although she is unaware of this when we start our story in a fairly normal yet not clichéd suburban [...]
Continue reading...Increased Leisure Citizen
Monday, January 9, 2012
As we blogged last week the fine Lass O’Gowrie in Manchester continued their tradition of support for comics and science fiction with a new stage adaptation of one of early 2000 AD’s more unusual series, Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s brilliant Halo Jones (see here for Mutt Badham’s interview about the play with the Lass’ [...]
Continue reading...Equality in the Big Meg – Tour of Duty
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: Backlash and Mega City Justice By Wagner, MacNeil, Walker, Critchlow, Higgins, Ezquerra et al Published Rebellion Approaching a Judge Dredd graphic novel is not as easy as it seems; Dredd is for me personally an iconic character going back to my childhood, so when you read the story that is [...]
Continue reading...Our canny man James heads to the Canny Comic Con
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Look, it’s real simple: if we the consumer don’t go or don’t buy things which are pretty cool, then at some stage they won’t exist. Although this is in no way the only motivator I had on Saturday as I boarded a train for a journey of over three hours, it was at the back [...]
Continue reading...Thought Bubble – James’ take
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
It’s a misty chilly morning in Leeds, but Scarlet Witch strikes quite an image as she walks towards Tesco’s, neon yellow and bright green, vividly startling at half past nine on this achingly early Saturday morning of Thought Bubble. She is flanked by three other costumed, crusading comic fans and so my pilgrimage north to [...]
Continue reading...Hanging between two realms: Ranson and Grant’s classic Mazeworld
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Mazeworld Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson 2000 AD/Rebellion Mazeworld is a complete story, here in one volume, and it’s a fine piece of classic British comic book storytelling, brought back into print by Rebellion who listened to a lot of fans (see Richard’s post here) who made it clear this was a classic story they [...]
Continue reading...So Shall You Reap – Judge Dredd Megazine 316
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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For me, the route into a science fictional hobby for life began with 2000AD, and although I was a regular reader for many years, I admit that I opt to buy the graphic novels rather than go out every week and buy the comic. I remember when Crisis, Revolver and the Judge Dredd Megazine were [...]
Continue reading...A Sort of a Review – James & Pádraig Have a Chat about Alan Moore: Storyteller
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Alan Moore: Storyteller By Gary Spencer Millidge, Published Ilex It’s a chilled October afternoon and Pádraig Ó Méalóid and I are sitting down to contemplate the biographical work that Gary Spencer Millidge has lovingly put together. Although we recognise the photo of Alan Moore on the cover from elsewhere, we are actually somewhat impressed with [...]
Continue reading...London Comic Mart
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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There was little ceremony about The National Comic mart passing hands, but there is obvious evidence online and in the venue that an event which is borderline institution has changed management, so I made it my business to get into the National Hotel, venue of the re-branded ‘London Comic Mart‘. The company ‘Showmasters‘ who run [...]
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- Sneak Peek: Darryl Cunningham’s History Tales
- 2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1777
- Ty Templeton’s Easter Message x 2
- Art For Art’s Sake
- Upcoming: Silver Darlings…. upgraded
- Happy Easter… Peanuts style
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