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01.05.2024
SUPERNOVA STORIES FROM A SIDEWAYS UNIVERSE! It's the summer of true nuclear fusion as 2000 AD mashes and smashes its most popular strips t...
26.04.2024
I have been slacking on the Bear Alley Books front for a few weeks following the release of BEYOND THE VOID: THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF BADGE...
25.04.2024
Tanks, Mosquitos, Legionnaires and a grenade-wielding British Officer, all in Commando i ssues 5743-5746! On sale from today, Thursday 25th ...
24.04.2024
Constanza’s Vampiric War Continues! Pre-Order Fiends of the Eastern Front Vol 2 Today! The second omnibus in the Fiends of the Eastern Front...
20.04.2024
Another year, another volume of Eagle Times , the remarkable magazine dedicated to the original Eagle . Remarkable because the original las...
19.04.2024
I have been keeping busy with a third commission from The Guardian , this one on the late Trina Robbins, which took me four days to complete...
17.04.2024
The latest episode of the 2000AD Thrill-Cast is not for the nervous! At least that’s what Ghastly McNasty, the editor of Scream! might clai...
14.04.2024
If you're read BEYOND THE VOID: THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF BADGER BOOKS , you'll know that I've nominated Barney Ward as probably the worst s...
13.04.2024
After last week's late-running Comic Cuts column, I was convinced I wouldn't have any similar problems this week. Of course, I wasn't takin...
11.04.2024
Commando issues 5739-5742 are on sale from today, Thursday 11th April, 2024, featuring aerial hi-jinks and jeep hijacks! 5739: King and Aces...
10.04.2024
Battle Action Force Treasury Editions . Battle Action Force was published weekly from October 1983 to November 1986 by IPC Magazines limite...
06.04.2024
Um... where do I start? I had planned to take a couple of days off — just relaxing — because it has been a rough couple of weeks, thanks to ...
05.04.2024
OK, so there's no column for Friday as we had an electrical blow-out this (Thursday) morning that still isn't completely fixed as I write th...
03.04.2024
Dare You Read It Alone? A classic horror series rises from beyond the grave in 2024, featuring four brand-new chilling adventures from some ...
02.04.2024
Here's Jules Burt's latest video covering the recent Paperback & Pulp Book Fair at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury on Sunday, 24 March. I'm inter...
30.03.2024
Where was I? Oh, yes, at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, at the Paperback and Pulp Book Fair. By mid-day I'd sold out of BEYOND THE VOID and, ...
29.03.2024
Well, that was a heck of a week, with some highs and lows and a relentless pace. In the movie of my life this week would be interrupted by t...
28.03.2024
Commando celebrates legendary Commando cover artist Ken Barr with four special issues in an one-off set dedicated to the master himself. Com...
27.03.2024
New readers start here! The new issue of 2000 AD has been precision-tooled for those hungry to discover why it’s called the Galaxy’s Greates...
24.03.2024
Somewhere I can talk about my favourite subjects: old British comics, story papers and paperbacks.
22.03.2024
The week started badly, with Mel feeling poorly and then testing positive for Covid. Then I received a message on Monday from the printers o...
20.03.2024
At the very end of 2023, the legendary artist John M Burns sadly passed away. While well known amongst 2000 AD fans for his extensive work o...
18.03.2024
15.03.2024
Let's talk about a classic of science fiction: "Not long got back home to discover a copy of Steve Holland's latest magnum opus – I should s...
14.03.2024
Commando Issues 5731-5734 are on sale from today, Thursday 14th March, 2024! 5731: Leg Before Chindits Major Charles Beevor thought his hope...
13.03.2024
It’s the story that’s shocked readers and shaken Dredd’s world – and now you can grab every episode of ‘Judge Dredd: A Better World’ in one...
08.03.2024
Finally, I can announce a release date for Beyond the Void: The Remarkable History of Badger Books which will be available from 25 March. I...
06.03.2024
VOTE METTA FOR BETTA! As Marshal of Badrock, Metta Lawson saved the town she has come to love from being annihilated by the corrupt cor...
01.03.2024
Finally, I'm back onto the Forgotten Authors book after a lengthy distraction. I wanted to write something that I could dip in and out of w...
29.02.2024
On sale from today, Thursday 29th February, 2024, Commando marks International Women’s Day with four special issues spotlighting on female c...
28.02.2024
BATTLE ACTION RETURNS WITH A COLLECTION OF TWELVE NEW STORIES! Air Ace Johnny Red and Angel of Death Nina Petrova face off against the Nazi ...
26.02.2024
In a brief foreword, Alan Clark notes that "It seems that comic papers and the stage have always been intertwined. What appeared on the 'boa...
23.02.2024
My laptop problems are slowly being sorted out. I mentioned in a sitrep on Sunday that I had managed to reinstall the operating system. This...
22.02.2024
Heritage Comics and Commando Comics presents… Codename: Warlord the graphic novel collection! Featuring the original adventures of Lord Pete...
The official 2000 AD podcast is back! We switched Molch-R on and off again, and it did the trick – the Thrill-Cast again takes you behind-t...
19.02.2024
A quick update on the laptop. I eventually pressed the button on the nuclear option and downloaded a new operating system -- or, rather, a n...
16.02.2024
Vale my laptop... and I'm rather fearful that I might also be saying vale to my new laptop – the one I bought last January (pictured abov...
15.02.2024
Commando's latest issues are on sale from today, Thursday 15th February, 2024, with new contributors joining the Commando ranks – including...
14.02.2024
Reprinting the immediately sold-out Judge Dredd by Brian Bolland Apex Edition this Masterpiece Edition is expanded and reformated for a wi...
09.02.2024
I have been cracking on with the Forgotten Authors book, having now completed the last essay... I hope it's the last essay, anyway. I then ...