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The Weird World Of Jack Staff -A GREAT British Comic!

THE WEIRD WORLD OF JACK STAFF #1
 

story PAUL GRIST, art & cover PAUL GRIST
Image Comics32 PAGES, FC, $3.50  
 
BEGINNING A BRAND NEW ERA IN THE LIFE OF
BRITAIN‘S GREATEST HERO!
 
Castletown is home to giant robots, vampire reporters, victorian escape artists and also
Britain’s Greatest Hero. Welcome to the Weird World of Jack Staff!  
John Smith is […]

Bomb Scares From Time Bomb Comics……BOOOOM!

below:”First Solids”

BOMB SCARES 

Time Bomb Comics
US Size
Black & white
56pp
£4.00/$5.50
US
 
I thought:”Why not let Steve Tanner,boss at Time Bomb,tell us about Bomb Scares?” It seemed a novel and rather lazy approach so here we go from their blog [which you can find at: http://timebombcomics.blogspot.com/ ]
 
“Bomb Scares, our long-awaited horror anthology one-shot, is the first big 2010 release […]

KHAKI SHORTS No.23

KHAKI SHORTS no.23 

28pp
Black and white
A5
£1.00 +50p p&p
 
“The Comics Underground For Just One Pound!”
 
The Khaki Shorts MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/khakishorts
 
Nice cover by Shug 90.  These issues tend to be fairly regular now so it’s a pity my memory for names is still so bad!!  Who publishes the thing…Rob Miller.  Hey,ain’t it about time an address and editorial […]

My Excess -More Goodies From David Gordon!

It was a big treat to get the latest books from David Gordon’s MyExcess imprint.  Rather than just blandly review them I thought I’d let David explain each one then write what I think!  So…
HOW FAR CAN TOO FAR GO 
 

“How Far Can Too Far Go comes in two different flavours, the Prime edition is 192 […]

Cinebook -The Blue Coats

The Bluecoats - The Skyriders 
Authors: Lambil & Cauvin
Age: 8 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
paperback
Publication: January 2010
ISBN: 9781849180146
£5.99
In this volume,Blutch and Chesterfield go up in an observation balloon in order to spy on the Confederate troops. But the plot thickens when our heroes crash land on their superiors. The […]

Cinebook -IR$

I.R.$ - SILICIA, INC. 
Authors: Vrancken & Desberg
Age: 15 years and up
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
PAPERBACK
 
Publication: January 2010
£5.99
ISBN: 9781849180139
 
Larry B. Max is an unusual specialist from a little-known branch of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service),the all-powerful tax-collecting agency of the United States,which has every technological method at its disposal to investigate […]

Cinebook -The Chimpanzee Complex 2

The Chimpanzee Complex - The Sons of Ares 
Authors: Richard Marazano & Jean-Michel Ponzio
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 56 colour pages
Paperback
Publication: January 2010
ISBN: 9781849180153
£6.99
In 2035,a strange space capsule has crashed in the Indian Ocean with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! Who,then, are the men who came back from the 1969 […]

Cinebook -Blake & Mortimer

Blake & Mortimer - The Affair of the Necklace 
Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Age: 10 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 72 colour pages
Paperback
Publication: January 2010
ISBN: 9781849180375
£7.99
A necklace that used to belong to Marie Antoinette, the last French queen before the French Revolution, turns up in the hands of a British collector who decides […]

Khaki Shorts No.22

A5 [Digest]
24pp
black and white
£1.00 [see http://www.myspace.com/khakishorts ]
The MySpace site has a brilliant colour version of this cover -if only it weren’t too expensive to add colour cover!
The review I did of this and another title appears to have vanished without trace from CBO.  I believe that the disappearance is due to Gordon Brown’s government of humourless […]

All That Glister’s…

Glister: The Faerie Host 
By Andi Watson
Categories: Graphic NovelPublication details:Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781406320503 Published: 04 Jan 2010 Price: £4.99  Size: 185 x 135 mmPages: 80
For readers aged: 8+
 
 
The third book in a delightfully quirky and funny series for girls told in comic-strip and featuring Glister Butterworth – girl-magnet for the weird and unusual. It is coming […]