tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327380972024-03-18T17:08:48.860+00:00Bear AlleySomewhere I can talk about my favourite subjects: old British comics, story papers and paperbacks.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comBlogger5300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-76292249164339007572024-03-17T17:03:00.000+00:002024-03-17T17:03:02.444+00:00Comic Cuts – 17 March 2024Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-22796188504314682492024-03-16T05:04:00.000+00:002024-03-18T17:08:16.358+00:0018 Mar. Andrew Sumner interviews Michael Moorcock about the second volume of Moorcock's Multiverse from Titan. "Moorcock and Sumner, as usual, also chat about a whole bunch of other things, including: the dark side of late stage capitalism; Moorcock's upcoming short story Wigan (plus Wigan the northern English town, Bowen's chunky steak pie and pie-coveting canine Alfie Evans); J.G Ballard; the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-22298199036256782252024-03-15T05:03:00.001+00:002024-03-15T05:03:00.140+00:00Comic CutsLet'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 say, mega-magnum
opus – his history and study of Badger Books, BEYOND THE VOID. This is
astonishing as it not only looks at the whole history of Badger Books – not just the sf and supernatural series but everything else – war,
westerns, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-2887101340583082912024-03-14T05:03:00.028+00:002024-03-14T05:03:00.139+00:00Commando 5731-5734 Commando Issues 5731-5734 are on sale from today, Thursday 14th March, 2024! 5731: Leg Before ChinditsMajor Charles Beevor thought his hope was all out as he led a depleted group of Chindits deep into the jungles of Burma. Surrounded by the Japanese and cut off from British lines, only the support of Subedar Singh and their mutual love of cricket could save the day. Together, they were out for Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-15745546281095288552024-03-13T05:03:00.030+00:002024-03-13T05:03:00.137+00:00Rebellion Releases — 13 March 2024It’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
print or digital bundle.It’s ‘defund the police’ comes to Mega-City One as writers Rob Williams
and Arthur Wyatt, with artist Henry Flint, craft a taut political
thriller in which a large-scale experiment by Justice Department
accountant Judge Maitland Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-60377929987064575742024-03-08T05:03:00.142+00:002024-03-08T08:05:06.597+00:00Comic Cuts – 8 March 2024Finally, I can announce a release date for Beyond the Void: The Remarkable History of Badger Books which will be available from 25 March. I've picked that date because the day before, Sunday, 24 March, is the Paperback & Pulp Book Fair at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury in Coram Street, London. The fair sits alongside the Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair, so there will be something for everyone to browse Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-63640344485860048632024-03-06T05:03:00.001+00:002024-03-06T05:03:00.145+00:00Rebellion Releases — 6 March 2024VOTE METTA FOR BETTA!
As Marshal of Badrock, Metta Lawson saved the town she has come to
love from being annihilated by the corrupt corporation Munce Inc.,
established it as a thriving haven of free trade, and brokered an uneasy
peace with the enigmatic Zhind race. Now, having resigned her position
as Marshal, Metta faces a new kind of fight, a political battle for the
mayorship of Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-2269641951867926862024-03-01T05:03:00.293+00:002024-03-01T05:03:00.159+00:00Comic Cuts - 1 March 2024Finally, 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 while I was trying to sort out my laptop, and it rather took over the last two weeks.It wasn't even the thing I planned to write. I have been thinking about how to follow-up the Badger book, and one of the ideas is to do a similar sort of thing about Curtis Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-27410382771710537392024-02-29T05:03:00.001+00:002024-02-29T05:03:00.131+00:00Commando 5727-5730On sale from today, Thursday 29th February, 2024, Commando marks International Women’s Day with four special issues spotlighting on female contributors and characters.5727: The ViperBacuit Bay, Palawan Island, Philippines, 1944. Imelda Hernandez, nicknamed “The Viper” is a schoolteacher turned guerrilla commander intent on annihilating the Japanese invasion with her bolo knife and lightning-fast Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-89616275438107635102024-02-28T05:03:00.061+00:002024-02-28T05:03:00.130+00:00Rebellion Releases - 28 February 2024BATTLE ACTION RETURNS WITH A COLLECTION OF TWELVE NEW STORIES!Air Ace Johnny Red and Angel of Death Nina Petrova face off against the Nazi invaders, lethal British agent Dredger deals with the abduction of the only person dear to his stony heart, and the louche Major Eazy must lead his men through the Devil’s Garden of El Alamein. There’s action aplenty with roguish British commandoes Rat Pack, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-49356546350780850382024-02-26T05:03:00.002+00:002024-02-26T07:19:40.406+00:00Comic Papers, Music Hall & Early Cinema by Alan ClarkIn a brief foreword, Alan Clark notes that "It seems that comic papers and the stage have always been intertwined. What appeared on the 'boards' was soon seen on the pages of the comic weeklies." It was not a one-way street, as comic characters soon made their way into the theatre... so, while Ally Sloper would visit Augustus Harris's pantomimes in Drury Lane every year, Sloper himself was being Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-64501223854749324842024-02-23T05:03:00.191+00:002024-02-23T05:03:00.234+00:00Comic Cuts – 23 February 2024My laptop problems are slowly being sorted out. I mentioned in a sitrep on Sunday that I had managed to reinstall the operating system. This completely trashed the original system and all the files, folders, programmes, preferences, bookmarks, etc., etc., that I'd built up over the year I have been using it.The good news: I managed to copy all of my files and folders back onto the laptop, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-8656779100255397572024-02-22T05:03:00.018+00:002024-02-22T07:16:35.631+00:00Codename: Warlord reprint releasedHeritage Comics and Commando Comics presents… Codename:
Warlord the graphic novel collection! Featuring the original adventures of Lord
Peter Flint from Warlord alongside the Commando reboot of Codename: Warlord! In 1974, British comics publisher DC Thomson launched
WARLORD, bringing a weekly anthology of action and adventure to comic readers
across the UK and further afield. Amongst the most Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-37541035757765733802024-02-21T07:40:00.007+00:002024-02-21T07:59:20.265+00:00Rebellion Releases - 21 February 2024The 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-the-scenes on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comics!
We launch the first episode of 2024 with a special chat for readers new or unfamiliar to 2000 AD
– newly minted droid Steve Morris talks to comics critics Rachel
Bellwoar and Zack Quaintance about the best ways Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-54742497819032055842024-02-18T09:29:00.002+00:002024-02-18T09:32:22.481+00:00Comic Cuts - 18 February 2024 -- Laptop UpdateA quick update on the laptop. I eventually pressed the button on the nuclear option and downloaded a new operating system -- or, rather, a new version of the old operating system (Windows 11). In so doing, every file, programme and preference stored on the laptop was utterly wiped. There was, before the button was pressed, a recovery option for me to clone the contents of the hard drive Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-66686984855605937832024-02-16T05:03:00.235+00:002024-02-16T05:03:00.142+00:00Comic Cuts – 16 February 2024Vale 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 above), so I've only had it for a year. It took me that long to get it all set-up the way I wanted, and now it looks like I might have to go through the whole process again.The laptop that died was an old Dell Inspiron that I've had for twenty years. I used to watchStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-52145844410512922832024-02-15T05:03:00.025+00:002024-02-15T05:03:00.136+00:00Commando 5723-5726 Commando's latest issues are on sale from today, Thursday 15th February,
2024, with new contributors joining the Commando ranks – including
Commando’s first female artist!
5723: Tomasz and the Top-Secret Engine
Tomasz Zielinski had escaped Poland and the German Blitzkrieg in 1939 by
hopping aboard a Polish armoured train headed for safety. That was
then, and now, in 1940, he was itching Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-43870974017910153252024-02-14T05:03:00.045+00:002024-02-14T05:03:00.135+00:00Rebellion Releases - 14 February 2024Reprinting the immediately sold-out Judge Dredd by Brian
Bolland Apex Edition this Masterpiece Edition is expanded and reformated
for a wider audience!
Acclaimed as one of the greatest artists of his generation for his
work on such titles as Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke, Brian
Bolland’s work on Judge Dredd helped catapult both the series and
Bolland Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-56400468899930280502024-02-09T05:03:00.010+00:002024-02-09T05:03:00.134+00:00Comic Cuts - 9 February 2024I 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 spent a day double-checking information in another one and attempting to cut it down. I snipped out about 400 words that I thought were wandering off-topic, and then added about 600 as I checked sources that expanded on some of the story I was trying to tell. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-57273354546129900392024-02-07T05:03:00.001+00:002024-02-07T05:03:00.147+00:00Rebellion Releases - 7 February 2024Collected in its entirety for the first time since it
originally appeared in Wham! sixty years ago, Kelpie the Boy Wizard is
an exciting, magical adventure illustrated by British Comics’ legend,
John Burns.
In days of old, when King Arthur reigned over Britain, there was at royal Camelot an apprentice sorcerer by the name of Kelpie.
Together with his venerable master,Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-49472079830979939032024-02-02T05:03:00.003+00:002024-02-02T05:03:00.150+00:00Comic Cuts - 2 February 2024February hasn't been a good month so far, and we're only one day in. On Wednesday we noticed a leak under the kitchen sink, so I have spent this morning (I'm writing this Thursday afternoon) trying to fix it. Unfortunately, it isn't a blockage, as I'd hoped (because that means unblocking it makes the problem go away). Rather, the seal has perished, so now, if you pour a bowl of water into the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-22830259013499865482024-02-01T05:03:00.011+00:002024-02-01T10:38:34.134+00:00Commando 5719-5722Globetrotting action and adventure in Commando Issues 5719-5722 — on sale from today, Thursday 1st February, 2024!
5719: The Spy of Sweslik Castle
In the Bavarian mountains perched Sweslik castle. In times past, the
castle had been a monastery, but in 1943 it was an impregnable fortress
which housed Allied prisoners of war. Its German guards claimed that any
and all escape was impossible, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-46056106344135188432024-01-31T05:03:00.041+00:002024-01-31T05:03:00.143+00:00Rebellion Releases - 31 January 2024Duncan Jones wraps principal photography on Rogue Trooper movie.Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute) eagerly anticipated movie adaptation of classic British comic Rogue Trooper has wrapped principal photography in the UK. Written and directed by Jones, Rogue Trooper is an animated science fiction feature from Rebellion and Liberty Films.Shot at Rebellion Film Studios in Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-61255127378346952002024-01-26T05:03:00.093+00:002024-01-26T07:03:37.850+00:00Comic Cuts - 26 January 2024This month seems to have flown by and I'm frustrated at not having Beyond the Void out already. This is what comes of trying to cut costs... My idea was to try and get the next Forgotten Authors book in a position where I could order a proof copy alongside some restocks of other books, plus the proof of Beyond the Void to spread the cost of postage. Unfortunately, one of the new essays has Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-28067717008821734932024-01-24T05:03:00.001+00:002024-01-24T05:03:00.135+00:00Rebellion Releases - 24 January 2024Best of 2000 AD is a landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest stories for a new generation of readers.
Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and
gems from the vault. In each edition you’ll find an explosive new Judge
Dredd adventure, fresh essays by prominent popular culture writers, a
graphic novel-length feature presentation by Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.com0