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Civil War arrives

13. April 2007

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It will surprise no-one to learn that some of the Civil War graphic novels have suffered from delays, just as the comics did, but at last the collection simply entitled “Civil War” by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven has finally arrived – a day later than usual this week because of the Easter weekend, but [...]

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The final Potter

1. February 2007

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JK Rowling has announced the publication date for the final volume of the incredibly popular Harry Potter novels, the Deathly Hallows, due this summer on the 21st of July (sighing booksellers round the world will be marking it on their calendars and preparing to gird their literary loins for waves of enthusiastic youngsters at midnight [...]

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new arrivals – from Daredevil to Yellow Brick Roads

20. December 2006

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Still hunting for a last minute gift for someone? Or maybe you need to buy yourself a gift as a reward for all your diligent Christmas shopping? There’s a fair mix of new titles going out on the shelves tomorrow, including some very attractive hardback collections from Marvel in the shape of David Finch and [...]

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Mignola loves the Portent

15. December 2006

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The Most Excellent Mike Mignola in the Image Newsletter postively raves about the new graphic novel The Portent by Peter Berting, which which just arrived on the shelves yesterday and does indeed look most intriguing (in fact the creatures on the front put me in mind of Mike’s art): “The Portent is one of the [...]

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New arrivals – Bolland, Ware and assorted creepy monsters!

29. November 2006

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You may recall a few weeks ago we had Joe Pruett chatting away here on the blog and one of the subjects that came up was the Art of Brian Bolland book Joe had been working heavily on for Image. It was due a number of months back and has seen its publication date pushed [...]

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Comics at the Cape

29. November 2006

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The Cape Town Book Fair, due to be held in South Africa next June, is going to double the amount of floor space for the 2007 event, the second to be held. And I’m pleased to see that among the new areas to be included in the expanded book fair is a whole area given [...]

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Apocalypse (war) now

17. November 2006

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Slightly overdue but very welcome nonetheless, the fifth volume of Rebellion’s outstanding Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files has just arrived in-store and it’s a mighty tome, weighing in at just under 400 pages of classic 2000 AD goodness. Volume five has the massive epic from the 1980s, the Apoclaypse War and the precursor arc [...]

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New Babylon 5 from Straczynski

14. November 2006

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My fellow Bab 5 fans rejoice – the mighty J Michael Straczynski is taking a break from his (often excellent) comics output to return to the franchise which made him a household name among geeks worldwide. ICV2 carries news from Warners that JMS will write and direct a straight-to-DVD new segment entitled Babylon 5: the [...]

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Doctor Who an ‘icon of Englishness’

10. November 2006

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An online government project has added Doctor Who to a list of icons of England on a site with entries voted for by the public. It seems a little odd to me that any one part of the United Kingdom should have any particular claim over the series, currently produced by BBC Wales and starring [...]

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Chester Gould

1. November 2006

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Among the new graphic novel goodies you can browse on the shelves tomorrow is the first volume of a quite splendid looking Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy from IDW. Similar in format to Fantagraphic’s lovely Complete Peanuts collections, this is a thick, landscape-format hardback, the first in a series which will eventually collect some five [...]

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New arrivals

11. October 2006

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There will be some choice new graphic novel goodness for you to browse in our stores (and online of course) tomorrow as the weekly ritual of New Comics Day arrives. There’s a nice showing from Image Comics this week, with the second, massive Spawn Collection (bringing together a lot of long-out-of-print early material, so a [...]

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