Tag Archive | "Paul Rainey"

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Friday, May 25, 2012

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One of our long-time favourite Brit small press comic creators Paul Rainey drops us a line to say that the Milton Keynes Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Pushwagner art this summer. This will be the first solo exhibition of Norwegian artist and comics creator Hariton Pushwagner outside of his native land and will [...]

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Thunder Brother – the return of The Two Ronnies?

Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Well that was rather well timed, and no, I didn’t do it on purpose – what do you think I am? Organised? (I can hear Mrs B guffawing in the background). After the review of Paul Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division up on Friday, Paul’s blog announces that Thunder Brother: Soap Division is returning tomorrow [...]

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Thunder Brother Soap Division

Friday, March 2, 2012

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Thunder Brother Soap Division By Paul Rainey Rainey’s got previous form with a long running, multi-character epic after his time travelling soap opera odyssey There’s No Time Like The Present. That was a great series, sprawling sci-fi meets tight, very personal soap opera characterisation. It concluded with issue 13 in 2010. And now he’s returned with Thunder [...]

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Dundee Comics Prize

Monday, October 31, 2011

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The first Dundee Comic Prize was given out over the weekend at the Dundee Comics Day; Graphic Scotland‘s twitter tells us the big winner was Belle’s Magic Mobile, but sadly they didn’t catch the name of the artist. Luckily I managed to get in touch with Doctor Chris Murray at the University of Dundee and [...]

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Paul Rainey’s Thunder Brother ….

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Yes, I know Joe mentioned this the other day, but I didn’t get chance to flick through until today and I have to say Paul Rainey’s new online comic Thunder Brother: Soap Division is off to a fine start, two strips in, with a cleaner, finer line than his previous work and a bright colour [...]

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Thunder Brother: Soap Division

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Paul Rainey, who created the brilliant Book of Lists (which still makes me chuckle) and the superb There’s No Time Like The Present series, has just started a brand new webcomic this week, Thunder Brother: Soap Division. He is deliberately not telling us much about it for fear of spoiling it – we’ll need to [...]

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Two more for FPI’s Most Wanted…. one right now, one in May

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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A couple of great comics that I stupidly left off the FPI Most Wanted for this month (FPI Most Wanted is our monthly look at what’s coming your way over the next couple of months). One because I didn’t know about it until this morning and the other because I have a terrible memory and [...]

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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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There’s No Time Left…….

Friday, September 17, 2010

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There’s No Time Like The Present Issue 13 by Paul Rainey Self-published. “If you’re new here …. then you’re really going to be confused.” Those are Paul Rainey’s opening words in his editorial for issue 13 – the final part of his time travelling, dimensional warping, head spinning sci-fi soap opera odyssey after nearly six years [...]

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Time’s Up….

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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Currently sitting on my shelf waiting to be read is the 13th and final episode of Paul Rainey’s There’s No Time Like The Present. The culmination of Rainey’s near 6 year epic of time travel and personal relationships. I’ve looked at all the various  parts so far here on the blog (here’s the most recent [...]

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And now the end is near …. Paul Rainey’s sci-fi kitchen sink OAP series nears the end.

Friday, May 14, 2010

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There’s No Time Like The Present issue 12 (of 13) by Paul Rainey Self Published It’s getting very close to the end of Paul Rainey’s excellent sci-fi/ time travel/ kitchen sink drama of OAPs and collector culture. And since it’s a very complex story that demands the reader consumes all 11 previous issues before tackling [...]

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2000 AD Prog Slog comes to an end

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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(the first Prog of 200 AD; dinosaurs fighting cowboys from the future, Volgs invading Britain, MACH 1 and the return of Dan Dare. It was 1977, I was ten, it was brilliant) Regular readers may remember us mentioning from time to time Paul Rainey (writer/artist of a couple of comics series we absolutely love) embarking [...]

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There’s No Time Like The Present 11

Monday, February 15, 2010

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There’s No Time Like The Present issue 11 (of 13) by Paul Rainey Self Published. It’s really difficult reviewing this one, since I really don’t want you to read it. At least I don’t want you to read it quite yet. Like I’ve said before, Paul Rainey’s There’s No Time Like The Present series is [...]

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Lucky 13 for Rainey?

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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Over on his blog Paul Rainey writes that he’s just finished plotting out the finale to his most enjoyable series “There’s No Time Like The Present“. In the past he always said he reckoned 12 issues would see it finish and wrap up satisfactorily. But after plotting it all out, he’s decided it needs an [...]

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