Tag Archive | "zombies"

Debuting at Kapow this weekend: Overload

Friday, May 18, 2012

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Launching this weekend at London’s Kapow comic-con is new 36-page Brit comic Overload, boasting this absolutely splendid piece of zombie Thatcher cover art by Graeme Neil Reid. The brainchild of writer/editor Martin Conaghan (who brought us the fine Burke and Hare), it is, in classic Brit comics fashion, an anthology (using creator owned tales), with [...]

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Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]

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Zombie Maggie

Friday, May 4, 2012

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Graeme Neil Reid shares the truly terrifying cover art for the first issue of the forthcoming Overload, which will launch at the Kapow comic con in London later this month. Zombie Maggie Thatcher! Even the most seasoned horror gore hound quakes in terror…

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Win The Revenant DVDs

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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Award-winning horror-action flick with a sense of humour (okay, a sick sense of humour, but that’s how we like it!) writer-director Kerry Prior’s The Revenant is out on DVD and Blu Ray on April 2nd. When soldier Bart is killed in Iraq only to wake up and find himself a Revenant, returned from the dead [...]

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Max Brooks in FP Glasgow today!

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Glasgow peeps and assorted zombies, don’t forget this evening we have World War Z author Max Brooks coming into our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street, right round the corner from where some of the filming for the movie vesion of his book has been going on, from 5.30 to 6.30pm!

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Zombie guide to the library

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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I love this – BoingBoing reports that McPherson College Library has created a tutorial in comics form (with zombies!) as a guide to how to use the library. Brilliant! I could have used this back in my college days, I worked part time in the college library and was constantly amazed how some undergrads could [...]

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Sprouse, Witterstaetter, McKinnon and Adkins in FP Glasgow

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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The Glasgow Forbidden Planet International has a couple of great in-store events coming up for your pleasure next month. On Saturday May 14th Iain McKinnon and Travis Adkins will be in the store (on Buchanan Street, right by the Underground) from 4 to 6pm to sign their work – there will also be face painting [...]

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Zombie holidays

Friday, December 24, 2010

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Zombies – the undead apocalypse can be a nuisance at the best of times, but during the festive season it can really ruin your family holidays, so here’s some proper, good old-fashioned 50s style advice for dealing with a zombie outbreak over Christmas (via BoingBoing):

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Superheroes – Picasso style

Friday, November 5, 2010

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It’s the superheroes we’ve known and loved for decades, but influenced by the stylings of one of the 20th century’s most famous artists – yes, it’s Picasso style superheroes by Mike and Matt, the Wonderbros – their selling the portraits on their Etsy store, alongside their zombie Beatles (via Blastr and High Definite)

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In this week’s new releases: ducks, zombies and classic Brit boy’s war comics

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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It’s a bumper week for new releases, with a slew of graphic novels hitting our shelves for New Comic Day this very morning. But purely for the sheer visual fun of it this cover for Marvel Zombies Volume 5 made me smile, big time – I mean it’s Howard the Duck and he’s kicking undead [...]

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Villemolle 81 out on DVD

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Full disclosure : I am a huge fan of the French publisher Les Requins Marteaux, and expecially of the books of one of their star cartoonists, Winshluss.  I am in awe of their ability to combine the grossest and most obnoxious subject matter with an absolute obsession with artistic and production quality.  Winschluss’s Pinocchio, in [...]

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Walking Dead behind the scenes

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Enjoy a glimpse behind the scene of the forthcoming AMC TV adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant Walking Dead series which hits the US screens this autumn and the UK screens fairly soon afterwards (I haven’t seen a date yet, but FX in the UK have been showing clips from it in their upcoming new [...]

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The dead shall walk… Leeds

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Sabrina Peyton alerts us to the fact that the walking dead shall be shambling their way through Leeds for charity on the 21st of November as part of Zombie Aid, the day after the upcoming Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds, so it’s going to be a happening weekend there (please remember some zombies may [...]

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Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Ahead of yesterday afternoon’s signing for Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary, which coincides with the show version of How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month (at the Zoo Southside, details on the official site), we had an invasion of the walking dead at the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet (pics from my [...]

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Lock up your brains: zombies hit the Edinburgh Fringe

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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On Sunday 8th the Edinburgh chapter of Zombie-Aid will trudge and stagger their decrepit and decomposing way through the streets of the city, staggering through the massive Edinburgh Festival crowds, while on the Fringe there’s a showing of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Check their Facebook group for more info and I believe it [...]

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