Halloween

In anticipation of the spooky goings-on, here's my pumpkin carving for this year - it's harder than it looks!

Levi Stubbs

The voice of Audrey 2 passed away last week. Here's two great performances:

Surreal Super-hero Moment

Britain's got the Pop Factor has been as strange and unusual as previous years, but 2up 2down's finale performance was one of the highlights. They're a lot like the Fantastic Four...

Do you know your rights?

Ch-Ch-Check it out:

Birmingham Round-up

Dan Fish in fetching shirt. Isn't it though?
Originally uploaded by surprise truck

The Forbidden Planet blog has a good round-up of reviews and photos from the 2008 Birmingham International Comics Show (BICS). My pictures are here.

Comics Must Go!

I might have mentioned before, but in case you've never looked, may I point your attention to my Comics for Sale page? Many of these have gone already, and the rest may soon end up in recycling, charity shops or beside railway sidings.

If there's anything that takes your fancy, let me know quickly, and we'll work out a price. Recent unlisted additions to the pile include Thunderbolts 110 Venom variant, and Robinson/Charest WildCATs run. Drop me an email while stocks last!

Life of Reilly

Back in the 1990's, Marvel Comics released some really quite bad Spider-Man comics. The behind-the-scenes story behind the increasingly convoluted and confused 'Clone Saga' storyline is a fascinating examination of the opposing company and creative forces responsible for the whole mess.

The 35 part essay has been available online for some time, but the authors now have plans to expand and release the project as a book.

"The Clone Saga also gave us The Life of Reilly, though, a unique piece of longform comics journalism that summarizes and explains not only the complex, at times non-sensical plotlines, but more importantly, it includes first-hand reportage of how this story went so horribly awry from the editors, writers and others involved in its creation."