Tag Archive | "Paul Cornell"

Director’s Commentary: Ryan Kelly, Giulia Brusco and Paul Cornell welcome us to Saucer Country

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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One of the new series from DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint we’ve been eagerly anticipating launches this very day – Saucer Country from the team of Ryan Kelly, Giulia Brusco and Paul Cornell. And I am delighted to say the three of them have very kindly taken the time to talk us through some of the [...]

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Best of the Year – Paul Cornell

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from one of our favourite writers, regardless of whether he is scribbling away frantically on television scripts, science fiction novels or comics, and someone who I’ve known and talked to via the web for years but only finally got to meet in person this year, which was a [...]

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Comics Anonymous talks to Paul Cornell

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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(Paul Cornell signing in the Edinburgh FP recently, pic from my Flickr) Gary at Comics Anonymous caught up with that fine chap Paul Cornell when he was signing in our Glasgow store recently and has posted up an interview with him: “Gary: You’re writing two very different books as part of the new 52. Did [...]

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DC52 – Demon Knights

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Demon Knights DC Comics, By Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves Right from word go, this comic feels different. It’s without doubt firmly set in the fantasy genre, with the best elements of DC’s darker fantasy, sometimes well known from Vertigo pages, but also drawing on characters that are a key part of the main DC [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in Edinburgh FP today

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Edinburgh peeps, don’t forget you have a rare chance to meet the very fine Paul Cornell this afternoon as he visits the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet from 5 to 6pm – great chance to meet one of our best scribes and also get your new DC 52 signed at the same time! See you there!

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in Glasgow FP this evening

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Glasgow peeps, don’t forget, not only can you pick up the latest new issues from New Comics Day today, including the next batch of the DC 52 issues, you can also meet scribe Paul Cornell and get them signed! Paul is at our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street from 6 to 8pm this very day, [...]

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Paul Cornell in FPI Glasgow tomorrow, Edinburgh Thursday

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Reminder for folks in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the most excellent Paul Cornell, scribe behind numerous SF&F novels, some of the best scripts in the revived Doctor Who and a whole brace of comics (including, now, part of the massive DC 52 relaunch we’ve been covering extensively on the blog), will be in the Glasgow Forbidden [...]

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DC The New 52 – a few mini reviews from week 1 …. O.M.A.C., Stormwatch and Green Arrow….

Monday, September 12, 2011

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My turn, as a lapsed superhero fan and convoluted continuity hater, to have a go at the new DC Universe titles… As I wrote a week back, after my hmmm reaction to Justice League #1, the whole idea of completely reworking the DC Universe, hopefully making it work for new readers and lapsed readers like [...]

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More new voices looking at the new DC 52…. Mark Roberts tackles Stormwatch, Action Comics and JLI.

Monday, September 12, 2011

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We really can’t stop bringing you new writers covering this new DC 52 at the moment. We’ve had Andrea’s take on Justice League, followed by Swamp Thing and Action Comics, and we’ve had James and Oli East tackle Justice League as well. Now our next debutante; Mark Roberts, whose It Came From Dartmoor blog has [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in FP Glasgow and Edinburgh this month!

Friday, September 2, 2011

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A reminder for your diaries this month – screenwriter, novelist and comics scribe, the excellent Paul Cornell, will be in our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street on Wednesday 21st of September from 6 to 8pm and in the Edinburgh FPI on Thursday 22nd from 5 to 6pm. Mark it in your diaries now, peeps! Keep [...]

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Paul Cornell signing in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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The excellent Paul Cornell, writer extraordinaire with SF novels, a whole brace of major comics and, of course, some of the best episodes of the new Doctor Who series to his name, is going to be in Scotland next month and oh lucky readers, he will be making appearances in both our Glasgow and our [...]

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Paul Cornell, Jimmy Broxton and some cosplay: FCBD at N&C

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton were guests at our Nostalgia and Comics store in sunny Birmingham for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, seen here relaxing with a cuppa generously laced with laudanum before the events kicked off (it’s how we keep the writers and artists manageable). And of course it wouldn’t really be FCBD [...]

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To do tomorrow – the Nostalgia & Comics Free Comic Book Day event….

Friday, May 6, 2011

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Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham – my favourite comic shop in the world (yes, I’m biased, I did work there for 19 happy years off and on after all) is having a very special event for tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day. There are, of course, the usual piles and piles of free comics for the [...]

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The Two Pauls

Friday, February 25, 2011

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London’s fine Orbital Comics recently hosted The Two Pauls – Cornell and Rainey – and now there’s video from the event online, via the Orbital site:

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Paul Rainey gives us more Time and the debut appearance of The Two Pauls…..

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Paul Rainey, of the excellent There’s No Time Like The Present, has been in touch to tell me about the extra exclusive supplemental TNTLTP pages he’s produced for the Paul Gravett curated That’s Novel exhibition. Here’s one, the rest are at Paul’s website found at the TNTLTP pages: And on February 19th Paul will be [...]

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