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Taxidermy Tales

1. June 2012

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Taxidermy Tales By Gill Hatcher and A.J. Smith Taxidermy Tales is a flip comic, a gentle horror double bill from Gill Hatcher (Team Girl Comic) and A.J.Smith (Khaki Shorts) with each artist getting just 10-pages, including the cover, to try and tell their tales, and although it’s short and sweet, both artists actually do rather well; getting [...]

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The Whale House

31. May 2012

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The Whale House Part One By Andrew Cheverton and Chris Doherty As a first issue this collaboration between the writer of West and the creator of Video Nasties is a refreshing example of how to do the whole content/setup/mystery thing just right with plenty of reading across the 22 pages, with Doherty’s artwork regularly presented [...]

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Welcome to MCC’s End Of The World…

30. May 2012

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Midlands Comics Collective – The End Of The World Is Nigh By Simon Woolford, Ellie Cummins, Tony McGee, Hunt Emerson, Kevin Lee Bennett, Jane McGuiness, Giuseppa Barresi, Mikey B, Josh Clarke, Ryan Taylor, Yee Morgan, John Crawford Edited by Laura Howell Midlands Comics Collective Something of a mixed bag anthology this one – 12 tales dealing, [...]

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Best Of Enemies

29. May 2012

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Best Of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations (Part One: 1783-1953) By Jean-Pierre  Filiu and David B. SelfMadeHero I wasn’t exactly looking forward to this one. It felt, purely on the the title and the blurb, a little too history heavy, a little dry. Even David B’s cover didn’t do much. But [...]

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Video Nasties revisited….

28. May 2012

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Video Nasties – The Collection By Chris Doherty Way back at the start of 2011, I reviewed Chris Doherty’s Video Nasties, or at least the first 6 issues of this 7 issue series. Yes, it’s a dumb way to do it, yes, I did leave myself rather hanging. Back in that review I found it [...]

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Eat Me!

25. May 2012

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Eat Me! A Food Anthology Jack Davies, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss & Harry Griffin-Hayes, Sammy Borras, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sarah Fogg Inspired Comics Hmm. The urge to pepper this one with hideous puns and food references is almost too much. You’ll forgive me “pepper”. I promise that will be the last of them. Right then. Six comic strips all on the [...]

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Not Really A Review of Black Dossier, In Any Real Sense, More an Examination of One Tiny Part of It

24. May 2012

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In March this year Knockabout published the first British edition of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sourcebook, Black Dossier. In theory, this should be the first time that this book is available on this side of the Atlantic, even though it was published in America in 2007, five years ago now. [...]

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Valerian & Laureline – The Land Without Stars.

24. May 2012

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Valerian And Laureline Volume 3: The Land Without Stars Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divided [...]

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Psircus

23. May 2012

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Psircus Issue 1 – The Origins of Kathy and Icarus Written by Daniel Bell, art by Katja Lindblom, Iain Buchanan, Daniel Bell Yes, PT Barnum presents…. yes, the same PT Barnum who runs the circus. Except in here, it’s the Psircus he’s running, the Psircus being a way for writer (and sometime artist) Daniel Bell [...]

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Spirou and Fantasio… reporters and adventurers

22. May 2012

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Spirou & Fantasio: Running Scared Written by Philippe Vandevelde (Tome), illustrated by Jean-Richard Geurts (Janry) Cinebook Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of [...]

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SPOOKS – Weird Enforcement Special Team

21. May 2012

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SPOOKS Volume 1: The Fall Of Babylon By Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury, art by Christian Rossi Cinebook “1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. [...]

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2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1783

19. May 2012

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In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” It says Block War on the front of that Karl Richardson cover (don’t [...]

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Haunted Bowels

18. May 2012

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Haunted Bowels – Collected Comics Volume 1 By Craig Collins, Dave Alexander, James Corcoran, Iain Laurie, Paul McCann, Rob Miller, Nulsh, Curt Sibling, Robert Thomson and Jacek Zabawa. Craig Collins has featured here on the blog already in 2011 with his and Iain Laurie’s Roachwell collection. That was a seemingly disconnected slightly absurdist collection of strips, one and two-pagers that managed to become [...]

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Largo Winch – the priceless thriller that’s all about the money…

17. May 2012

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Largo Winch Volumes 9 & 10: The Price Of Money & The Law Of The Dollar Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook Okay… here’s the blurb… The Price Of Money: “A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his [...]

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Crisp Biscuit Comics #2

16. May 2012

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Crisp Biscuit Comics #2 By Robert Wells Issue 2 of Rob Wells’ Crisp Biscuit Comics – and apart from the upgraded paper stock and the crisper printing, it’s essentially more of the same from issue 1 – reviewed back in 2011. But don’t misunderstand me – more of the same is not necessarily a bad [...]

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