Tag Archive | "Spandex"

Spandex in Comic Heroes

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Sometime contributor to this very parish Matt Badham has a two-page spread in the latest Comic Heroes talking to Martin Eden about the brilliant Spandex. We’ve been very impressed with Spandex on the blog, not just because of how it portrays LGBT issues but because it is a cracking read too, and we’re delighted that [...]

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Upcoming: Spandex Book 1

Thursday, March 29, 2012

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Another in our series of UPCOMING posts, this time highlighting Martin Eden’s Spandex. We’ve featured Spandex here on the FPI blog since issue 1 and have continued our support with each issue since as Eden’s multi-coloured gay superhero title started strong and just got better and better. Here’s a little of what it’s all about: [...]

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Spandex Issue 6 – O.M.F.G. indeed….

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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Spandex Issue 6 By Martin Eden Spandex is Martin Eden’s Brighton based multi-coloured superhero series. It started good, and over the course of the six issues so far (reviews of previous issues here: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5) it just got better and better, tighter and tighter. Sure, with a little over zealous desire to bring his [...]

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Spandex news – Issue 6 very soon, and a graphic novel collection!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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Always great to see someone get the deal they’ve been after and find a way to get their work out there in front of more people. Martin Eden has been putting out comics for a loooong time, firstly with the long running series The O-Men, and latterly with his technicolour all-gay superteam Spandex (reviews of [...]

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Best of the Year 2011 – Martin Eden

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes courtesy of Martin Eden, a comics creator who always looks good in Spandex; Martin’s managed to combine sexual politics and identity with the capes’n'tights genre in a unique and unusual way – while mainstream comics make a big thing out of having a token, solitary gay character [...]

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O.M.F.G. – it’s Spandex Issue 5!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Spandex #5 By Martin Eden Five issues in and we know what to expect from Martin Eden’s Spandex; bright, bold colours, great artwork, diverse sexual politics, personal intrigues cast against the backdrop of superheroics…. and most of all a damn fine, highly enjoyable all-gay superteam soap opera series. Here’s a previous summary (but a note [...]

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Propaganda’s 3 from… May 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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Here’s the May edition of the roundup of my three favourites of the things reviewed on the blog this month…. Cindy and Biscuit By Dan White “…..that’s what Cindy and Biscuit does to me, each and every time of the multiple readings so far – it fills my heart with simple joy and then breaks it [...]

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Spandex Issue 4 – O.M.F.G.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Spandex Issue 4: O.M.F.G Part One – True Colours By Martin Eden Spandex is Martin Eden’s multi-coloured superhero series set in Brighton. With the previous three issues (reviews #1, 2, and 3) the quality has been building and building with each issue. Issues 1 and 2 introduced the various characters in this all-gay superteam soap [...]

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Next weekend: Bristol International Comics Expo

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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Bristol International Comics Expo happens next weekend. And it looks like it will be a great event. Sadly, I’m not going, but we’ll keep you up to date with reports and pics when we get them. Guest of Honour this year is the great Rick Veitch, artist on Brat Pack, Maximortal, Rare Bit Fiends, Greyshirt, [...]

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Hello Kitties! New Spandex…..

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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Now aint that just great? Martin Eden’s Spandex comic has been going from strength to strength, all 3 issues are great reads, but issue 3 really hit the spot: “All in all Spandex is turning into something rather special. A self contained story in every comic, an ongoing soap opera storyline and, with this issue, [...]

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A Technicolour Ray Of Light In The Grey – Spandex Issue 3

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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Spandex Issue 3 – “…If You Were The Last Person On Earth” By Martin Eden. Martin Eden trailed this issue as the Gay Zombies one, but instead of the multi-coloured gore fest I imagined, this issue of Spandex actually turns into something very, very different and hugely enjoyable. Issues 1 & 2 (reviews here and [...]

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Spandex Issue 3 Trailer – Gay Zombies Time…

Saturday, November 20, 2010

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Martin Eden’s latest issue of Spandex should be available today at Thought Bubble. If, that is, he managed to finish it – seems he’d been working towards getting it done for next weekend, which is when he thought Thought Bubble was taking place. Reviews of issues 1 & 2 should show you how much fun [...]

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Spandex goes Japandex

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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In the latest issue of Spandex, Martin Eden’s sexy super team heads off for Japan to great effect (see the review here) and to celebrate/promote the event and the comic Martin’s invited comic artists to contribute images with a unique Spandex-y Japanese twist – it’s called Japandex and although there’s only a couple online right [...]

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Spandex issue 2 – you can never have too many pink ninjas….

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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Spandex #2 by Martin Eden Well, this was an unexpected pleasure – last time I had a look at Spandex issue 1 (review here) Martin Eden was saying that the first issue was merely a teaser for the graphic novel he was working on. But the success of that first issue meant he just couldn’t [...]

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Best of the year – Martin Eden’s picks

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest blogger arrives nattily clad in shimmering, bespoke spandex splendour, creator of some cracking comics with gender and sexuality challenging characters such as the recent Spandex (which received many plaudits, not least from our own Richard, see here), Martin Eden: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially [...]

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