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Weekly Treats! Marvel NOW! Fables, Scalped, Lobster Johnson, Scene of the Crime
Marvel's NOW! train is really picking up some momentum. All-New X-Men #1 in a neat idea, actually sees the old X-Men as the 'new' guys when Beast plucks them from the past. Brian Michael Bendis...
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Swoon Soon-ish! Jupiter's Children
Aiming for no less than the scope of Lord of the Rings or the Star Wars saga, Mark Millar's Jupiter's Children (Image) is a planned 12 issue series and follows the holy trinity law by breaking the...
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Weekly Treats! Captain America, Hulk, Walking Dead, Fairest
MarkWaid has already brought us the strongest re-launches for a while (and currently one of my favourite superhero titles) with the award-winning Daredevil so it with quite some anticipation that eyes...
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Swoon Next Year! Age of Ultron
I know, I know; it's getting near Christmas so you're thinking: what's Marvel's big story for next year?That'll be Age of Ultron by Brian Michael Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Carlos Pacheco and Brandon...
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A Few Thoughts About...
Another prestigious book award nomination list and yet again I'm scratching my head not necessarily over what made the list but what didn't. Obviously there's no accounting for taste and the fact that...
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Weekly Treats! Nausicaa, Grandville, Hellboy, Avengers & more...
Elbowing its way to the front of the queue of releases is a book that's actually a re-print but is something of a masterpiece which has now found itself in a wonderful two-book hardcover format that...
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2012-2013
Happy New Year to you - so sorry about the lack of blog activity over the last couple of weeks but it was for the best reason: a busy Christmas period. Obviously comic/graphic novel shops are selling a...
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Weekly Treats! DC New 52 Volume Two's, Superior Spider-Man
Excuse the quick run through - there are a ton of housekeeping jobs to plough though this time of year and yet quality comic releases don't rest for no beast so....The main headline is that the second...
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Essential Interview - Mark Waid
There's a great interview on ComicsReporter (see here) with Mark Waid who after thirty years in and out of mainstream comics turns in some thoughtful points about being a writer and insightful comments...
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Bravo Tharg!
Ah cross-over events. A marketing ploy to lure in the readers with an enormous story contrived to be filled with as many characters as they can, or a regular reader delight when all the pieces come...
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Weekly Treats! The One Trick Rip-Off, Reset, Fables
At 288 pages, book of the week is a hardcover piece of chunky punk. You can see the influence of Paul Pope's flowing, energetic art style in several comic artists in recent times and The One Trick...
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Swoon Soon! The Murder Mile
King of Robot City and good friend of the shop Paul Collicutt has a new book due for release next month. The Murder Mile (SelfMadeHero) is Collicutt's first non-Robot City original graphic novel...
View ArticleKickstarting! Alt-Brighton
Was it really a whole year ago that QueenSparkBooks launched the initiative to develop an anthology graphic novel of stories about Brighton's history and people (see here)? Well under the watchful eye...
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Weekly Treats! Young Avengers
Quick: Thanks to an internet lapse I have exactly 48 seconds to either save the world or write the Weekly Treats blog post and as it's cold and raining outside I'll go for the latter. Marvel just about...
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A Few Thoughts About.... Comic 'Textbooks'
LogicomixSo a recent study in America has found that graphic novels are more effective at communicating information than traditional textbooks (see here). Sounds like common sense really: put...
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Weekly Treats! Dollar Bill, Moebius & Stan Lee, Justice League
“Are you kidding? I’m only an actor, not a real crimefighter.” And so to a the character we know least about from Watchmen - so it seems a shame that it's only one issue. Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill...
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Swoon Now! The Silver Darlings
As I write this the weather is cold and wet. People outside are pulling those bulldog-chewing-a-wasp faces against the icy spray. They're the perfect conditions to be reflecting on a wonderful book by...
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Weekly Treats! Aya, New Deadwardians, Superman
This week sees the release of the second collected volume of Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie's Aya series entitled Aya: Love In Yop City (D&Q). A rich, light-hearted soap opera set in 1970's...
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Swoon Soon! The Murder Mile - UPDATE: SIGNING!
As promised:On 21st February the shop will be open 6:30-9:00pm as Paul Collicutt will be in the store for the official launch of his new original graphic novel The Murder Mile, published by...
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Weekly Treats! Batman, Doctor Who, Mars Attacks
Here's a curious one: Batman: The Night of the Owls (DC) is technically the next volume release in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman series but it actually only features two issues - #8 & 9 -...
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