Tag Archive | "Necessary Monsters"

Necessary Monsters finally gets booked?

Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s Necessary Monsters series looks like it may finally be getting it’s long promised book release. And from a newly ressurected First Comics of all places. Yes, First Comics. As in American Flagg, Grimjack, Badger, Nexus et al. Seems they’re back. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has a few details on the [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s a damp Thursday at the end of February, one half of the UK shivers in snow, the other half in dismal rain, but who cares when we can stay in by the fire and listen to the new-fangled wireless type talking entertainments of Alex Fitch. As ever for more information and links to podcasts [...]

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The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]

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Best of the Year: Sean Azzopardi’s faves

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year guest is one of our best indy creators on the UK small press scene, creator of the excellent 12 Hour Shift, co-creator of Necessary Monsters and many other works and a good chum of the blog, Sean Azzopardi: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over [...]

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Necessary Monsters – the finale

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Necessary Monsters 5 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self-published And here we are, at the end of the five issue first series of Necessary Monsters; Goodbrey and Azzopardi’s monster action-thriller that I’ve reviewed in depth twice before (reviews of issues 1&2 and 3&4). Issue 5 ties it all up nicely, giving us the [...]

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Necessary Monsters collection coming soon

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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We’ve really been enjoying Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi‘s collaboration on Necessary Monsters, in individual issues and online. In fact Richard said of it: “Spy Horror Thrills galore with more than a touch of the magical thrown in. James Bond with Hellblazer characters perhaps. This is Necessary Monsters; a fantastic and fantastical series from [...]

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More of those Necessary Monsters…

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Necessary Monsters issue 3 & 4 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self Published. “There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengence, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is the Chain; a covert agency [...]

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