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Ever Heard Of Pothi?

As I’ve mentioned before,Black Tower Comics & Books are available now via Pothi.com in India. They are fast and very helpful [more than certain services I won't name]. The titles are cheaper but there is a problem if you want to buy from the UK in that international postal charges cost more than the item [...]

Over Use Of The Term “Staggered”

The new WordPress dashboard is quite interesting and it tells me a lot that I normally do not bother with such as days with the highest number of hits: March 26, 2010 ……8463 June 25, 2010 ……8081 July 11, 2010 ……7466 June 7, 2010 ……7077 March 17, 2010 ……7061 Now that is certainly an increase [...]

Cheaper Black Tower Books?

As Black Tower now uses Pothi and India based company for its books it might be that some of you fancy saving a few coins [lulu.com books are priced at £7.00 while at Pothi they are £5.00 -Rs 350]? The link is: http://pothi.com/pothi/buy I’ll add this to the blog roll

Betty & Veronica -Apologies

I mean,seriously,”BFF” isn’t what I thought.  Note to self:Cut back on internet porn..which I only use for reference.

A Big Thank You

Indeed,a Very BIG “Thank You” to Terry Pavlet who has helped out on Black Tower covers.  Terry’s art and info can be viewed via Blog Roll links.

And On It Goes….

I thought,in case anyone was interested,I’d explain why I have withdrawn the two volumes of Centaur Heroes from lulu.com. Firstly,as I’ve explained a few times,these books involved a lot of work -re-sizing,cleaning,toning to make the art look good and make the text legible.  Each book took over a month to produce and those who contributed [...]

Is There Anything I Write People Agree With??

As I said to Elvis in 1979,while we were in the Memphis Belle Burger & Cheese Joint:”Aint life strange?” I was waiting for no response to the Archie Red Circle article but got one rather sarcastic response [I'm guessing it was sarcastic].  I got three emails: “Archie can’t use these characters -they don’t know how!” [...]

Red Circle,DC and Archie Comics

Back in July,2007 I wrote about my appreciation of the MLJ/Archie super heroes.  The article can be found here: http://www.comicbitsonline.com/2007/07/21/too-many-super-heroes/   When DC again licensed the characters we were promised that this would be the characters familiar to fans appearing alongside Batman in Brave And The Bold and being gradually integrated into the DC Universe.  [...]

Slapped With A Wet Lettuce

After beating me ecstatic with a wet lettuce leaf Mr Brown has achieved what AOL Time Warner could not –my retracting a statement! Yes,Browner Knowle 5 is,I’m told,nearing completion.  However,I suspect a slight delay since one of Mr Brown’s fav pop singers is heading The Reading Festival -Ken Dodd. News as it happens or I [...]

Shock! Horror! The 1980s Return -As Hooper Predicted!

We’ve a conservative [oops -"coalition"] Government,its raining and Black Tower is set to publish new work by Ben Dilworth and Tom Elmes -two stalwarts of the 1980s Zine scene! More news to follow. Now,if Mr Brown and Mr Northall can get their acts together….