FUTURESHOCK Books & Comics, 200 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6LN - 0141 332 7785

Our Glorious Future

2011-10-19T07:20:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed this article about technologies we were promised in comics/SF mags but never delivered:

12. Jet Packs
11. Virtual Reality
10. Auto-size adjusting clothing
9. Robots That Do Our Bidding
8. Hoverboards
7. Rocket Cars (that don't kill you)
6. Terraforming Devices
5. X-Ray Glasses
4. The Cure for the Common Cold
3. Time Travel
2. Replicators
1.Teleportation

YELP

2011-07-30T09:18:00.000-07:00

I was told I had been reviewed positively on Yelp and here it is.

The name of this shop is so apt.
Listen: I'm a comic book fan. Worse, I'm a comic book fan that reads comic book message boards. I flaunt my knowledge on online forums. I am a geek. I probably know more about the history of the X Men than I do about the history of this country. It's ok, you can judge me.
If you, like me, are a geek, then you will know what to expect from most comic book shops. Even decent sized bookshops have their own graphic novel section these days and you'll almost always get the same kind of stuff.
A bunch of essential era Marvel trades, some tie ins to whatever movie is out that week, some Lone Wolf and Cub, Cerebus, Sandman, Ghost World, Watchmen etc. All of it great for sure, but very rarely anything surprising.
You don't get that in Futureshock.
For a start, this is not a place of organisation. This is a stash, a grab bag. Piles of books and comics and VHS tapes litter every available space in the tiny shop. There's barely enough room to open the door.
Lost without the classic alphabetical listings, you're forced to just start digging, see what you can find in this chaos of fantasy. Pile after pile of obscure, random titles. You pick up a tatty old sci fi paperback with a cover that's half Mills & Boon, half H R Geiger and think my god what is THIS?
I love that. You'd be hard pressed to find something specific here, but go in with a sense of adventure and you might be rewarded.

OK thiat is the best of the five - not everybody is so appreciative of vast quantities of stock in a small shop making it difficult to turn round

A little scary? yes. Not sure if you go you'll actually make it out again? a wee bit. Pretty jumbled and slightly chaotic inside? most definitely. Worth a visit....

but still friendly. Both FP & A1 get fairly favourable reviews, though I, perhaps biased, think mine have the edge. They certainly have the edge in saying giving mine a bit of individuality and range of stock, both of which please me.

Review of Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes

2011-07-12T04:37:00.000-07:00

Not impressed.

The problem with TV is that those running it think they are important and the subjects of their programmes merely background. The reverse is true. A well produced TV programme's structure should be unobtrusive, letting the subjects speak for themselves.

Last night's programme was the opposite. It essentially consisted of soundbites, few if as long as 10 seconds, strung together with comic book pictures, cut into the smallest possible sections so that it would look like something Roy Lichtenstein had copied. Strung together as much as it had any connecting links, by somebody wearing improbable Clarke Kent's specs to look as geeky as possible.They should just have done straight interviews with the various creators. In half an hour they could have done 4 five minute interviews/speeches in which each could have shared some real opinions about their art or the business.

I have said elsewhere why television would be an ideal vehicle for serious formal political debates but that this would reduce the ability of the on screen talent" to feel self-important and that is exactly what was wrong with this programme.

Also you could see how eager the BBC were to portray comics as Bang Thud as per the Batman TV series. I suspect the Batman TV series, Clark Kent's specs and Roy Lichtenstein is all many Beeboids know of comics. Throughout the panels they chose to magnify and show were very "comic booky". We have in Glasgow one of the world's best artists, Frank Quitely, not only extremely popular but admired technically by other artists who see his remarkable economy of line. If they wanted to show what contemporary comic books look like (well look like at their best) while enhancing the Scottish connection that was the purpose of the programme, they could have used something beautiful like this for their panel shots

Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes

2011-07-10T08:59:00.000-07:00

This is on on Monday 11th BBC2, Scotland only.

It looks well worth watching with interviews with Mark Millar, Grant Morrison , Alan grant etc, despite the BBC hiding it away at an unpopular time on an unpopular day on the unpopular channel.

US Paperback Releases

2011-07-10T08:48:00.000-07:00

Basilisk - Thurman, Rob

A national bestselling author continues the thrilling sci-fi adventure begun in "Chimera," in which two reunited brothers try to stop a madman from unleashing death incarnate upon the world. Original.

Germline - Series: Subterrene War - #1; Subterrene War Trilogy - #1 - McCarthy, T C
A new entry to the military sci-fi genre, this debut--the first in a series--by an experienced CIA analyst during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reads like "The Hurt Locker" set 100 years in the future. Original. US SRP: 7.99 -

Imperial Glory - Series: Imperial Guard - #8 - Williams, Richard

Tired and broken by war, the men of the Brimlock Eleventh Imperial Guard are a force on the verge of collapse. They are presented with one final battle that will allow them the reward they all seek: to colonize the distant world of Vorr and live out the rest of their days in peace. Original. US SRP: 8.99

Mission of Honor - Series: Honor Harrington - #12; Honor Harrington Series Honor Harrington - #12
Weber, David

The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. US SRP: 7.99 -

Omnitopia Dawn: Omnitopia #1
Duane, Diane

Created by Dev Logan, Omnitopia is the most popular and successful massive multiplayer online game ever. But now as Dev is about to roll out a major new expansion to Omnitopia, there are people preparing to play a different game--one meant to bring the entire system crashing down. US SRP: 7.99 - (Discount: REG)

Out of the Dark Weber, David

Annotation: In the stunning launch of a new military-science fiction series, bestselling author Weber tells the tale of humanity's near-extinction by hostile aliens and of the surprising alliance that fights back. US SRP: 7.99

Outlanders #58 - Truth Engine - Axler, James

Cerberus Redoubt, the rebel base of operations, has fallen under attack. The enemy is at the gates and Kane and the others are his prisoners. The stone god demands Kane lead his advancing armies as he retakes Earth in the ultimate act of revenge. Original. US SRP $7.99
Ragnarok

Contributor(s): Vanner, Patrick A

Annotation: Captain Alexandra "Alex" McLaughlin is not a woman to be underestimated, but humanity is locked in a war of survival with the Xan-Sskarn, an alien race that refuses to acknowledge the rights of "weaker" creatures to live. Alex realizes the horrifying truth--humanity has a traitor, and it's somebody close. US SRP: 7.99

Reality 36: A Richards & Klein Novel

Contributor(s): Haley, Guy

Annotation: Richards, a Level 5 AI with a PI fetish, and his partner Klein, a decommissioned German military cyborg, are on the trail of a murderer in the realm of Reality 36, but the killer has hidden inside an artificial reality. Richards and Klein must stop him before he becomes a god. Original. US SRP: 7.99

The Recollection

Contributor(s): Powell, Gareth L

Annotation: In modern-day London, failed artist Ed Rico is secretly in love with his brother's wife, Alice. When his brother disappears on a London Underground escalator, Ed and Alice have to put aside their personal feelings in order to find him. Their quest reveals to them terrifying glimpses of alien worlds and the far future. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Theirs Not to Reason Why: A Soldier's Duty

Contributor(s): Johnson, Jean

Annotation: The national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series brings her wildly entertaining (Jayne Ann Krentz) imagination to science fiction in a brand-new series. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes

Series: Star Trek: The Original; Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek: The Original

Contributor(s): Mollmann, Steve (Author); Schuster, Michael (Author)

Annotation: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the "Enterprise" crew from the original "Star Trek" series are back in this all-new adventure. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Star Trek: Cast No Shadow

Series: Star Trek; Star Trek Star Trek

Contributor(s): Swallow, James

Annotation: Swallow delivers an all-new novel based on "Star Trek: The Original Series"--a sequel to the hit film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." Original. US SRP: 7.99
Path of the Seer

Series: Eldar - #2

Contributor(s): Thorpe, Gav

Annotation: The ancient eldar are a mysterious race and each member devotes his life to a chosen path that will guide his actions and decide their fate. Thirianna abandons her simple existence to embark upon the mysterious Path of the Seer. She will tread a dark and dangerous road that leads her to the otherrealm of the warp. Original. US SRP: 8.99
Working Stiff: A Revivalist Novel

Contributor(s): Caine, Rachel

Annotation: Bryn Davis was killed after discovering her bosses were selling a drug designed to resurrect the dead. Now, revived by that same drug, she becomes an undead soldier in a corporate war to take down the very pharmaceutical company responsible for her new condition. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Battle of the Network Zombies

Contributor(s): Henry, Mark

Annotation: Irreverent and nasty, sexy and hilarious, this work treats readers to more outrageously campy urban fantasy courtesy of Amanda Feral, Seattle's most glamorous zombie. US SRP: 7.99
Black Night

Series: Black Wings - #2

Contributor(s): Henry, Christina

Annotation: Madeline Black is an Agent of death, meaning she escorts the souls of people who have died to the afterlife. Of course, not everyone is happy to see her. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Blood Sacrifice

Contributor(s): Lima, Maria

Annotation: "Blood Sacrifice" is the fifth book in Lima's critically acclaimed urban fantasy series. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Bloodlands

Series: Novel of the Bloodlands - #1

Contributor(s): Green, Chris Marie (Author); Cody, Christine (Author)

Annotation: The author of the Vampire Babylon novels brings some new blood to the genre as she presents the first novel in a compelling post-apocalyptic trilogy. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Cold Magic

Series: Spiritwalker Trilogy - #1

Contributor(s): Elliott, Kate

Annotation: From one of the genre's finest writers comes a bold new epic fantasy in which science and magic are locked in a deadly struggle. It is the dawn of a new age, but when the Cold Mages come for Cat, new dangers lurk around every corner. US SRP: 7.99

The Crown of the Conqueror: The Crown of the Blood Volume II

Contributor(s): Thorpe, Gav

Annotation: Ullsaard has the throne. But when he is confronted with a truth too shocking to contemplate, he has to choose between power and honour
The Hardrumal Crisis: Dangerous Waters

Contributor(s): McKenna, Juliet E

Annotation: From the renowned author of "The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution" and the Tales of Einarinn series comes the first book in a stunning new fantasy series. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Den of Thieves: The Ancient Blades Trilogy: Book One

Contributor(s): Chandler, David

Annotation: Enter a world of darkness and danger, honor and destiny in this debut series about thieves and cutpurses, intrigue, knights, and demons. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Devil's Business

Series: Black London - #NO. 4

Contributor(s): Kittredge, Caitlin

Annotation: Pete Caldecott did everything she could to save Jack from Hell. Still, Black London has not welcomed Jack back with open arms. So when a friend in Los Angeles asks for help tracking a sorcerous serial killer, Pete and Jack decide a change of scenery couldn't hurt. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Oath of Vigilance: Abyssal Plague, Book 2

Contributor(s): Wyatt, James

Annotation: Following "The Temple of Yellow Skulls," the heroes face the totality of the destructive and pestilent forces presented by the Abyssal Plague. The disease of the liquid crystal Voidharrow spreads throughout the land, transforming unsuspecting creatures into plague demons. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Eye of the Tempest - Series: Jane True - #4 Peeler, Nicole

Annotation: Peeler returns with the fourth installment in her hip urban fantasy series featuring half-selkie/half-human heroine, Jane True. Original. US SRP: 7.99
Farlander - Buchanan, Col

Annotation: Buchanan makes a stunning epic fantasy debut with this first novel in the Heart of the World series about an elite group of assassins in an empire born from a nihilistic urban cult. US SRP: 7.99
Heroes at Odds - Moore, Moira J

Shield Lee Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish are steadfast in their commitment to protect Westsea no matter what. But before the heroes can discern why so many people are suddenly interested in gaining control of Westsea, Lee's family arrives with some startling news. Original. US SRP: 7.99

The Hour of Dust and Ashes - Gay, Kelly

Annotation: Gay returns with the third book in her Charlie Madigan urban fantasy series--the follow-up to "The Better Part of Darkness" and "The Darkest Edge of Dawn." Original. US SRP: 7.99

The Infinity Gate: Darkglass Mountain: Book Three - Douglass, Sara

Annotation: The stunning conclusion to the epic DarkGlass Mountain saga--a dramatic tale of love, magic, and betrayal set in the world of the bestselling Wayfarer Redemption series. US SRP: 7.99

Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel - Series: Sandman Slim; - Kadrey, Richard

Annotation: Kadrey returns with the high-octane follow-up to "Sandman Slim," which findsStark as bodyguard to Lucifer. US SRP: 7.99

Labyrinth: A Greywalker Novel - Richardson, Kat

Annotation: To find the ghost of her killer--and rescue her father--Harper Blaine will have to enter into the Grey. And with her growing powers pulling her deeper into that paranormal world, she's afraid she may not be able to come back out. US SRP: 7.99
Path of the Sun: A Novel of Dhulyn and Parno - Malan, Violette

Annotation: On their search for two missing Mercenary Brothers, Dhulyn Wolfshead and Parno Lionsmane must track a serial killer into the Path of the Sun--an ancient labyrinth from which few people return. US SRP: 7.99
Pay Me in Flesh - Bennett, Kelly (Author); Bennett, K (Author)

Annotation: Bennett delivers the first title in a frighteningly funny and deliciously gory thriller series introducing Mallory Caine, a lawyer . . . and a zombie. Original. US SRP: 6.99
Regicide - Royle, Nicholas

British Fantasy Award winner Royle ("Counterparts, Antwerp") has written a powerful story set in a nightmarish otherworld of fathers and sons, hopes and dreams, love and death. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Jamieson, Trent

Shale is in trouble--the creature-filled darkness known as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land, swallowing cities whole. Where once there were 12 metropolises, now only four remain. It's up to a drug addict, an old man, and a woman bent on revenge to save the world. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Shadowflame - Sylvan, Dianne
It's been three months since musician Miranda Grey became a vampire and married David Solomon. But when a powerful force from David's past appears, Miranda begins to realize how little she really knows about her husband. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Adams, Cat

From a "USA Today"-bestselling author comes the second book in a contemporaryurban fantasy that features the alluring half-vampire, Celia Graves. US SRP: 7.99

Stormlord's Exile -Series: Stormlord - #3 - Larke, Glenda

Larke delivers the breathtaking conclusion to the adventure-filled Stormlord trilogy--the follow-up to "The Last Stormlord" and "Stormlord Rising." Original. US SRP: 7.99

Succubus on Top - Mead, Richelle

In Richelle Meads follow-up to her deliciously witty, devilishly sexy debut, "Succubus Blues," Seattle-based succubus Georgina Kincaid is back--and this time, her life on the line. Kensington Books US SRP: 7.99

Nagash Immortal - Series: Time of Legends - #3 - Lee, Mike
Annotation: In the tunnels of Nagashizzar, a new threat to the realm of the undead is rising. Nagash must call upon all his reserves of power to defeat the skaven assault and continue his unholy reign. Original. US SRP: 8.99

Defenders of Ulthuan - McNeill, Graham
Annotation: The high elves have long been the protectors of the Warhammer World, and their homeland of Ulthuan is known for the powerful magic that surrounds it. When Ulthuan comes under attack, the high elves must hold firm or face disastrous consequences. Original. US SRP: 8.99
Sons of Ellyrion - McNeill, Graham
Annotation: Ulthuan is a land at the verge of destruction. At Lothern, a fell army marches against the elven defenders of Prince Imrik and Prince Tyrion. In Averlorn, two brothers fight for forgiveness and their right to defend their people. But at Tor Elyr, the conflict will be lost and won. Original. US SRP: 8.99

Water to Burn - Kerr, Katharine
Annotation: Secret agent Nola O'Grady is back and ready to save San Francisco from all evildoers, alien and otherwise. With the aid of her bodyguard and lover Ari Nathan, Nolan's new mission is to track down and apprehend the mysterious head of the now-dispersed Chaos cult. Original. US SRP: 7.99

Will Power - Hartley, A J

The continuing adventures of Will Hawthorne and his ethically dubious compatriots, wherein they are transported by forces beyond their control to a land none of them have ever seen before, and are forced to play a vital role in the developing goblin-human conflict. US SRP: 8.99

ILLUSTRIOUS OMNIBUS OF SUPERPOWERS

2011-06-21T04:37:00.000-07:00

This is really cool if you are a superhero nerd like me

I regret I do not have access to the T-Shirt but you can rollover and zoom in on it in, far to much, detail here. I must admit to never having heard of Bouncing Betty before [Power of the Body - Body Manipulation - Inflatable Bouncing Body][though they did miss out Big Bertha}. Where would the world be without superpowers like that?

2010 Nebula Awards Nominations

2011-03-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for the 2010 Nebula Awards:
Novel
The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Novella
The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
‘‘Iron Shoes’’, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 9/10)
‘‘Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance’’, Paul Park (F&SF 1-2/10)
‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)

Novelette
‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 7/10)
‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
‘‘Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’’, Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
‘‘Stone Wall Truth’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s 2/10)
Short Story
‘‘Arvies’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 8/10)
‘‘How Interesting: A Tiny Man’’, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
‘‘Ponies’’, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
‘‘I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno’’, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed 6/10)
‘‘The Green Book’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex 11/1/10)
‘‘Ghosts of New York’’, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
‘‘Conditional Love’’, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s 1/10)

Ray Bradbury Award
Despicable Me
Doctor Who: ‘‘Vincent and the Doctor’’
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Toy Story 3
Andre Norton Award
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

via Locus

TOP 50 COMICS OF FEBRUARY

2011-03-08T07:40:00.000-08:00

1 4(rank by value) GREEN LANTERN #62
2 5 BRIGHTEST DAY #19
3 10 118.58 #20
4 1 AVENGERS #10
5 3 FANTASTIC FOUR #588
6 2 NEW AVENGERS #9
7 16 BATMAN AND ROBIN #20
8 17 BATMAN #707
9 23 FLASH #9 (FLASHPOINT)
10 26 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #654.1
11 24 X-MEN LEGACY #245
12 6 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #654
13 7 UNCANNY X-MEN #533
14 8 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #655
15 9 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #653
16 25 GREEN LANTERN CORPS #57
17 11 UNCANNY X-FORCE #5
18 12 SECRET AVENGERS #10
19 13 X-MEN #8
20 14 ULTIMATE AVENGERS VS NEW ULTIMATES #1
21 30 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #54
22 15 WOLVERINE #6
23 31 GREEN LANTERN EMERALD WARRIORS #7 (WAR OF GL)
24 34 WOLVERINE #5
25 18 ASTONISHING X-MEN #36
26 27 ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #153
27 29 ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #154
28 38 INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #500.1
29 20 THOR #620
30 21 CAPTAIN AMERICA #615
31 22 INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #501
32 36 SUPERMAN #708
33 39 DETECTIVE COMICS #874
34 28 ULTIMATE COMICS NEW ULTIMATES #5
35 47 NEW MUTANTS #22
36 45 DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #1
37 19 WOLVERINE #1000
38 51 GREEN ARROW #9
39 32 HULK #29
40 52 WONDER WOMAN #607
41 33 HULK #30
42 35 ASTONISHING X-MEN XENOGENESIS #5
43 53 ACTION COMICS #898
44 37 IRON MAN 2.0 #1
45 54 WALKING DEAD #81
46 55 BIRDS OF PREY #9
47 56 JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #19
48 59 INCREDIBLE HULKS #622
49 58 RED ROBIN #20
50 61 INCREDIBLE HULKS #623

Glasgow Comic Convention

2011-03-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

Should be good. The site is about 10 minutes up Marhill road from Kelvinbridge Subway (which is also 5 minutes from FUTURESHOCK in a different direction).

There are expected to be other names there but nothing formally confirmed yet.

MARK MILLAR CHECKLIST

2011-03-05T10:14:00.000-08:00

Since Mark is going to be at the June comic convention and is a well known local comi8cs writer and is appearing as part of the Aye Write festival on Monday at the Mitchell Library and because I intend to extend the Mark Millar back issue section I have decided to reprint this checklist:

UK publishers
Saviour (with Daniel Vallely and Nigel Kitching, Trident Comics, 6-issue mini-series, 1989–1990)
"Her parents" (with John McCrea, in Crisis #31, 1989)
Tharg's Future Shocks:
"The Foreign Model" (with Dave D'Antiquis, in 2000 AD #643, 1989)
"Self Awareness" (with Keith Page, in 2000 AD #648, 1989)
"Nightmare On Ses*me Street " (with Brian Williamson, in 2000 AD #785, 1992)
"A Fete Worse Than Death" (with Brian Williamson, in 2000 AD #786, 1992)
Judge Dredd:
"Christmas is Cancelled" (with Brett Ewins, in 2000 AD Winter Special 1990, November 1990)
"Crime Prevention" (with Carl Critchlow, in 2000 AD #829, April 1993)
"Great Brain Robbery" (with Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #835-836, May 1993)
"Tough Justice" (with Mick Austin, in 2000 AD #840, June 1993)
"Down Among the Dead Men" (with Brett Ewins, in 2000 AD #841, June 1993)
"War Games" (with Paul Marshall, in 2000 AD #854, September 1993)
"Judge Tyrannosaur" (with Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #855, October 1993)
"Book of the Dead" (with co-author Grant Morrison, and art by Dermot Power, in 2000 AD #859-866, 1993, reprinted, Hamlyn, 1996, ISBN 0-7493-9692-X)
"I Hate Christmas" (with Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD #867, December 1993)
"Frankenstein Div " (with Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD #868-871, January 1994)
"Crime Prevention" (with Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #872, January 1994)
"Top Gun" (with Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #879, March 1994)
"Under Seige" (with Paul Peart, in 2000 AD #880, March 1994)
"Mr Bennet Joins the Judges" (with Peter Doherty, in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1994, June 1994)
"Crusade" (with co-author Grant Morrison, and art by Mick Austin, in 2000 AD #928-937, February–April 1995)
"Man Who Broke the Law" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #968-969, December 1995)
"The Big Hit" (with G. Stoddart, in 2000 AD #1029-1030, February 1997)
Silo (with Dave D'Antiquis, in 2000 AD #706-711, November–December 1990)
The Shadowmen (with Andrew Hope, Trident Comics, only 2 issues released before the firm went bankrupt, 1990)
Insiders (with Paul Grist, in Crisis #54-59, 1991)
Red Razors:
"Red Razors" (with Steve Yeowell, in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 1) #8-15, 1991)
"The Secret Origin of Comrade Ed" (with Steve Yeowell, in Judge Dredd Mega-Special #5, 1992)
"Doctor's Orders" (with Steve Yeowell, in Judge Dredd 1993 Yearbook, 1992)
"Hunt For Red Razors" (with Nigel Dobbyn, in 2000 AD #908-917, 1994)
"Rites of Passage" (with Nigel Dobbyn, in 2000 AD #971, 1995)
Robo-Hunter:
"Robo-Hunter" (with Jose Casanovas, in 2000 AD #723-734, 1991)
"Return of the Puppet Master" (with Simon Jacob, in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1991)
"Killer Grannies" (with Graham Higgins, in 2000 AD Yearbook 1992, 1991)
"Escape from Bisleyland" (with Anthony Williams, in 2000 AD #750-759, 1991)
"Return to Verdus Prologue" (with Jose Casanovas, in 2000 AD #792, 1992)
"Return to Verdus" (with Jose Casanovas, in 2000 AD #793-802, 1992)
"The Succubus" (with Simon Jacob, in 2000 AD Yearbook 1993, 1992)
"Aces of Slades" (with Anthony Williams, in 2000 AD #813-816, 1992–1993)
"Serial Stunners" (with Jose Casanovas, in 2000 AD #819-822, 1993)
"Keith the Killer Robot" (with Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #825-827, 1993)
"Revenge of Dr Robotski" (with Simon Jacob, in 2000 AD #881-884, 1994)
Tales from Beyond Science (with Rian Hughes):
"The Men in Red" (in 2000 AD #774, 1992)
"Long Distance Calls" (in 2000 AD #776, 1992)
"The Secret Month Under the Stairs" (in 2000 AD Winter Special #4, 1992)
"The Man Who Created Space" (in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, 1994)
The Spider (with John Higgins/David Hine, in 2000 AD Action Special, 1992)
Purgatory (with Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD #834-841, 1993)
Tharg's Terror Tales:
"The Tooth Fairy" (with Greg Staples, in 2000 AD #839, 1993)
"The Uncanny Dr. Doctor" (with Shaky Kane, in 2000 AD #860, 1993)
"Milk & Honey" (with Kevin Cullen, in 2000 AD #895, 1994)
Maniac 5:
"Maniac 5" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #842-849, 1993)
"War Journal" (with David Hine, in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1993)
"Maniac 6 Prologue" (with Richard Elson, in 2000 AD Winter Special 1993)
"Maniac 6" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #956-963, 1995)
Big Dave (with co-author Grant Morrison):
"Target Baghdad" (with Steve Parkhouse, in 2000 AD #842-845, 1993)
"Young Dave" (with Steve Parkhouse, in 2000AD Yearbook 1994, 1993)
"Monarchy in the UK" (with Steve Parkhouse, in 2000 AD #846-849, 1994)
"Costa del Chaos" (with Anthony Williams, in 2000 AD #869-872, 1994)
"Wotta Lotta Balls" (with Steve Parkhouse, in 2000 AD #904-907, 1994)
Canon Fodder: "Canon Fodder" (with Chris Weston, in 2000 AD #861-867, 1993)
Sonic the Hedgehog (in Sonic the Comic #2, #3, #5, #11-13, #15 & #16, 1993; #72 & #73, 1994)
Streets of Rage (in Sonic the Comic #7-12, 1993; #25-30, 1994)
A Day in the Life of Robotnik (in Sonic the Comic #42, 1994)
The Grudge-Father (with Jim McCarthy, in 2000 AD #878-883, 1994)
Babe Race 2000 (with Anthony Williams)
"Babe Race 2000" (in 2000 AD #883-888, 1994)
"Bounty Hunter Mom" (in 2000AD Yearbook 1995)
Rogue Trooper (Friday): "G.I. Blues" (with Chris Weston, in 2000 AD #901-903, 1994)
Janus: Psi-Division:
"A New Star" (with Paul Johnson, in 2000 AD #980-984, 1996)
"Faustus" (with co-author Grant Morrison, and art by Paul Johnson, in 2000 AD #1024-1031, 1997)
US publishersAmerican comics (sorted by year of publication, when available) include:

Marvel
Skrull Kill Krew (5-issue miniseries (co-written with Grant Morrison), Marvel, 1995, tpb, 2006 ISBN 0-7851-2120-X)
Ultimate X-Men #1-12, 15-33 & Ultimate War #1-4 (Marvel, 2000–2003) collected as:
*Volume 1: The Tomorrow People (#1 - 6)
*Volume 2: Return To Weapon X (#7 - 12)
*Volume 3: World Tour (#13 - 20)
*Volume 4: Hellfire & Brimstone (#21 - 25)
*Volume 5: Ultimate War (Ultimate War #1 - 4)
*Volume 6: Return Of The King (#26 - 33)
The Ultimates #1-13 (with artist Bryan Hitch, Marvel, 2002–2004)
*The Ultimates, Volume 1 - Super Human
*The Ultimates, Volume 2 - Homeland Security
Trouble (with Terry Dodson/Rachel Dodson, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics 2003)
Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-6 (2003–2004). 6-issue story arc initially co-written with Brian Michael Bendis, who wrote most of the later issues of the story.
*Collected in trade paperback, UFF: Volume 1: The Fantastic
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1-12 (with artists Terry Dodson (#1-4, 6-7 & 9-12) and Frank Cho (#5 & 8), Marvel, 2004–2005):
*Down Among the Dead Men (#1-4)
*Venomous (#5-8)
*The Last Stand (#9-12)
Wolverine vol. 3 #20-32 (with artists John Romita Jr. (#20-31) & Kaare Andrews (#32), Marvel Comics, 2004–2005) collected as:
Wolverine: Enemy of the State (hardcover)
*Wolverine: Enemy of the State Volumes 1 & 2 (paperback)
The Ultimates 2 #1-13 (with artist Bryan Hitch, Marvel Comics, 2004–2007) collected as:
*The Ultimates 2, Volume 1 - Gods and Monsters
*The Ultimates 2, Volume 2 - Grand Theft America
Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-32 (with artist Greg Land, Marvel Comics, 2005–2006) collected as:
*Volume 5 - Crossover
*Volume 6 - Frightful
*Civil War #1-7 (with artist Steve McNiven, Marvel Comics, 2006–2007)
Fantastic Four #554-569 (with artist Bryan Hitch, Marvel Comics, 2008–2009)
*Kick-Ass #1-present (with artist John Romita Jr., Icon, 2008–present)
Marvel 1985 (with artist Tommy Lee Edwards, 6-issue limited series, Marvel, 2008)
Wolverine vol. 3 #66-72 + Wolverine: Old Man Logan Giant-Sized special (with artist Steve McNiven, Marvel, 2008–2009)
Ultimate Comics: Avengers #1-present (with artist Carlos Pacheco, Marvel, 2009–present)
Nemesis (with Steve McNiven, mini-series, Icon Comics, March 2010, forthcoming)
Superior (with Leinil Francis Yu, ongoing series, Icon Comics, Octorber 2010)
1995 5 issue mini series set in a parallel world without superheroes

DC
Swamp Thing
issues #140 - 143 (co-written with Grant Morrison)
issues #144 - 171
The Flash #130 - 138 (co-written with Grant Morrison)
The Flash #139 - 141
Superman Adventures # 16, 19, 22-38, 41 & 52.
JLA - Paradise Lost (3-issue mini-series, DC Comics)
JLA #27 (DC Comics)
DC Tangent: The Superman
The Authority #13-20, 22 & 27-29 (Wildstorm)
*Jenny Sparks (5-issue mini-series, Wildstorm, 2000)
Superman: Red Son (with Dave Johnson, 3-issue prestige mini-series, DC, 2003)

Independant
*Wanted (with artist J.G. Jones, 6-issue creator-owned limited series, Image/Top Cow
"Chosen (with artist Peter Gross, 3-issue creator-owned miniseries, Dark Horse, 2004, tpb, Image Comics, 72 pages, December 2008, ISBN 160706006X)
*The Unfunnies (4-issue mini-series, Avatar Press, 2004 (1-2) & 2007 (3-4)
War Heroes #1-present (with artist Tony Harris, Image Comics, 2008–present)
*Vampirella masters series 2,3 Dynamite

Awards
s2000 Nomination for "Best Writer" Eisner Award for Superman Adventures
2001 Nomination for "Best Writer" Eisner Award for The Authority and Ultimate X-Men
2004 Nomination for "Favourite Comics Writer" Eagle Award
2005 Won "Favourite Colour Comicbook - American" Eagle Award, for The Ultimates Volume 2
2005 Won "Favourite Comics Story" Eagle Award, for The Ultimates Volume 2 #1-9
2005 Nomination for "Favourite Comics Story" Eagle Award, for Wolverine #20-25

* Those marked with an asterisk are ones which I have in stock or re-order when sold.

Latest US Import paperbacks

2011-03-03T08:48:00.000-08:00

Adamantine Palace - Deas, Stephen
Bound in Blood - Hodgell, P. C.
Destiny - Steele, Allen M.
Critical Intelligence - Pendleton, Don
Crucial Intercept - Pendleton, Don
Dead Streets: A Matt Richter Novel - Waggoner, Tim
Dead Waters - Strout, Anton
Death's Sweet Embrace - O'Hara, Tracey
Desert Spear - Brett, Peter V.
Devil's Mark - Pendleton, Don
Directive 51 - Barnes, John
Distant Thunders - Anderson, Taylor
Dragon Keeper - Hobb, Robin
Etched in Bone - Phoenix, Adrian
Extraordinary Rendition - Pendleton, Don
Final Coup - Pendleton, Don
Flirt - Hamilton, Laurell K.
Forest Moon Rising - Frost, P. R.
Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt A - Salvatore, R. A.
Griffin's War - Taylor, K. J.
Infiltration - Pendleton, Don
License to Ensorcell - Kerr, Katharine
Moon Flower - Hogan, James P.
Moon Over Soho - Aaronovitch, Ben
Much Fall of Blood - Lackey, Mercedes
Oath of Fealty - Moon, Elizabeth
Point - Blackthorne, Thomas
Powder Burn - Pendleton, Don
Raw Fury - Pendleton, Don
Recovery Force - Pendleton, Don
Road Trip of the Living Dead - Henry, Mark
Rogue Oracle - Williams, Alayna
Savage Rule - Pendleton, Don
Secret of the Dragon - Weis, Margaret
Serpent's Storm - Benson, Amber
Shadow Prowler - Pehov, Alexey
Silent Sea - Cussler, Clive
Sooner Dead - Odom, Mel
Target Acquisition - Pendleton, Don
Unified Action - Pendleton, Don
Unseen - Caine, Rachel
Up Jim River - Flynn, Michael
Where Angels Fear to Tread - Sniegoski, Thomas E.

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER

2011-03-03T08:37:00.001-08:00

Firstly the following newly released US paperbacks are available.
9780765362827 UP JIM RIVER
9780451191144 ATLAS SHRUGGED ANNIV/E
9780061053108 TERMINAL EXPERIMENT
9780857660794 POINT
9780451463708 DISTANT THUNDERS
9780373619955 STONY MAN 111 CRITICAL INTELLI
9780373638697 OUTLANDERS #56 CRADLE OF DESTI
9781439134023 COUNTDOWN LIBERATORS
9780857660824 KINGS JUSTICE
9781439134160 MUCH FALL OF BLOOD
9780061561658 DRAGON KEEPER
9780345524140 DESERT SPEAR
9780061783142 DEATHS SWEET EMBRACE
9780857660466 DEAD STREETS
9780451463371 ADAMANTINE PALACE
9780756406585 ZOMBIESQUE
9780451463821 WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
9780451463838 OUTCAST BK03 UNSEEN
9780765363671 SHADOW PROWLER
9780765359254 SECRET OF THE DRAGON
9780345524591 MOON OVER SOHO
9780756406561 LICENSE TO ENSORCELL

For anybody wanting them by mail I can supply with a cheque for £6.95 per book plus a flat postage rate of £2

Secondly I am extending the new paperback discount from 1 free when buying 7 to also include 1 at hald price when buying 4.

Thirdly I have got a new range of button badges, each individually made from comic panels - 95p each or £1.95 for a set of 3.

Fifthly you may like to look over this January list of the top 100 graphic novels.
1 7 6.50 OCT100327 JACK OF FABLES TP VOL 08 THE FULMINATE BLADE TP (MR) $14.99 DC
2 35 4.95 JUL068351 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE $9.99 IMA
3 5 4.82 NOV100642 DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER JOURNEY BEGINS PREM HC $24.99 MAR
4 10 4.80 NOV108240 GOON TP VOL 10 DEATHS GREEDY COMEUPPANCE $16.99 DAR
5 22 4.58 OCT100263 BATMAN JOKERS ASYLUM TP VOL 02 $14.99 DC
6 24 4.19 OCT100699 INVINCIBLE IRON MAN TP VOL 04 STARK DISASSEMBLED $15.99 MAR
7 2 3.96 SEP100254 STARMAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 06 $49.99 DC
8 27 3.86 OCT100325 HOUSE OF MYSTERY TP VOL 05 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT (MR) $14.99 DC
9 23 3.82 OCT100331 MADAME XANADU TP VOL 03 BROKEN HOUSE OF CARDS (MR) $17.99 DC
10 29 3.64 SEP088204-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 02 MILES BEHIND US (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
11 21 3.49 SEP100300 RAT CATCHER HC (MR) $19.99 DC
12 6 3.48 NOV100675 DEADPOOL CLASSIC TP VOL 04 $29.99 MAR
13 28 3.39 NOV100660 HULK END TP $16.99 MAR
14 12 3.37 SEP100313 SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING HC BOOK 04 (MR) $24.99 DC
15 58 3.36 OCT101184 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST TP VOL 24 $9.99 VIZ
16 66 3.36 SEP100528 ARTIFACTS TP VOL 01 $9.99 IMA
17 11 3.18 OCT100037 STAR WARS LONG TIME AGO OMNIBUS TP VOL 03 $24.99 DAR
18 15 3.13 NOV100645 AVENGERS BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PREM HC VOL 01 $24.99 MAR
19 70 3.08 SEP100461 HACK SLASH MY FIRST MANIAC TP VOL 01 (MR) $9.99 IMA
20 16 3.07 NOV100646 NEW AVENGERS BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PREM HC VOL 01 $24.99 MAR
21 25 3.02 NOV100667 SIEGE DARK AVENGERS TP $19.99 MAR
22 43 3.01 OCT100272 SECRET SIX CATS IN THE CRADLE TP $14.99 DC
23 45 2.93 NOV100629 CASANOVA TP LUXURIA VOL 01 (MR) $14.99 MAR
24 17 2.91 NOV100669 SIEGE NEW AVENGERS TP $24.99 MAR
25 19 2.87 NOV100647 SECRET AVENGERS PREM HC MISSION TO MARS VOL 01 $24.99 MAR
26 39 2.81 SEP100445 ASTOUNDING WOLF MAN TP VOL 04 $16.99 IMA
27 46 2.78 SEP100413 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 13 TOO FAR GONE (MR) $14.99 IMA
28 31 2.74 OCT100695 HALO TP HELLJUMPER (MR) $19.99 MAR
29 30 2.73 SEP100257 SUPERMAN LAST STAND OF NEW KRYPTON HC VOL 02 $19.99 DC
30 75 2.67 OCT101183 BATTLE ANGEL ALITA LAST ORDER TP VOL 14 $9.99 VIZ
31 59 2.67 SEP100116 GANTZ TP VOL 15 (MR) $12.99 DAR
32 18 2.55 NOV100401 LAST UNICORN HC $24.99 IDW
33 53 2.49 NOV100668 SIEGE MIGHTY AVENGERS TP $15.99 MAR
34 4 2.48 AUG100671-M MMW UNCANNY X-MEN HC VOL 07 $54.99 MAR
35 8 2.48 OCT100016 BPRD PLAGUE OF FROGS HC VOL 01 $34.99 DAR
36 32 2.44 OCT101087 SIXTH GUN TP VOL 01 $19.99 ONI
37 38 2.42 OCT100330-M SANDMAN TP VOL 04 SEASON OF MISTS NEW ED (MR) $19.99 DC
38 61 2.41 OCT100264 BATMAN VS THE UNDEAD TP $14.99 DC
39 54 2.40 NOV082245-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 03 SAFETY BEHIND BARS $14.99 IMA
40 65 2.30 NOV100672 SPIDER-MAN GAUNTLET VOL 04 JUGGERNAUT TP $14.99 MAR
41 60 2.29 JUL100030 SERENITY SHEPHERDS TALE HC $14.99 DAR
42 9 2.27 NOV100670 SPIDER-MAN COMPLETE CLONE SAGA EPIC TP BOOK 05 $39.99 MAR
43 44 2.25 OCT100269 JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL TP VOL 05 $19.99 DC
44 1 2.24 JUL100662-M MIGHTY THOR OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 $99.99 MAR
45 72 2.22 FEB108442-M SCOTT PILGRIM GN VOL 01 PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE $11.99 ONI
46 71 2.12 NOV100676 X-FACTOR TP VOL 10 SECOND COMING $14.99 MAR
47 51 2.09 NOV100649 STEVE ROGERS PREM HC SUPER-SOLDIER $19.99 MAR
48 121 2.09 OCT100485 TANK GIRL WE HATE TANK GIRL TP (MR) $9.99 IMA
49 63 2.08 OCT100468 COWBOY NINJA VIKING TP VOL 02 $16.99 IMA
50 167 2.07 NOV100985 SMURFS GN VOL 04 SMURFETTE $5.99 NBM
51 36 2.06 OCT100685 SPIDER-MAN ORIGIN OF SPECIES PREM HC $24.99 MAR
52 105 2.01 SEP100117 NGE CAMPUS APOCALYSE TP VOL 02 $10.99 DAR
53 64 1.94 OCT100274 SUPERMAN NIGHTWING AND FLAMEBIRD TP $17.99 DC
54 119 1.93 OCT101177 INU YASHA TP VOL 56 $9.99 VIZ
55 123 1.92 OCT101186 CLAYMORE TP VOL 17 $9.99 VIZ
56 37 1.91 OCT100040 AGE OF REPTILES OMNIBUS VOL 01 $24.99 DAR
57 76 1.91 SEP088206-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 05 BEST DEFENSE (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
58 57 1.87 JUN100127 SUPERMAN EARTH ONE HC $19.99 DC
59 33 1.84 JUL100684-M CAPTAIN AMERICA WAR & REMEMBRANCE PREM HC $29.99 MAR
60 84 1.84 OCT100270 QUESTION PIPELINE TP $14.99 DC
61 41 1.84 SEP108121 SPAWN ENDGAME COLLECTION TP $24.99 IMA
62 85 1.83 NOV100671 THOR RAGNAROK TP $14.99 MAR
63 83 1.81 APR100438 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 12 LIFE AMONG THEM $14.99 IMA
64 87 1.76 AUG100445 DARK IVORY TP $14.99 IMA
65 97 1.76 NOV100897 GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS TP VOL 06 MOTHERLAND $12.99 DYN
66 86 1.76 NOV100435 SPAWN ORIGINS TP VOL 09 $14.99 IMA
67 78 1.75 SEP088205-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 04 HEARTS DESIRE (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
68 82 1.70 NOV100663 HAWKEYE & MOCKINGBIRD TP GHOSTS $16.99 MAR
69 50 1.68 JUN100669-M FANTASTIC FOUR RESURRECTION GALACTUS PREM HC $24.99 MAR
70 96 1.66 NOV082242 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 09 HERE WE REMAIN (MR) $14.99 IMA
71 117 1.65 OCT100317 CHILL TP (MR) $12.99 DC
72 200 1.65 AUG100752 SHREK ONCE UPON A SLIME TP $6.95 APE
73 99 1.65 SEP088207-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 06 SORROWFUL LIFE (NEW PTG) (SEP088207) $14.99 IMA
74 68 1.62 NOV100360 TRANSFORMERS DRIFT TP $17.99 IDW
75 122 1.61 NOV100433 NANCY IN HELL TP $12.99 IMA
76 81 1.60 SEP100304 FABLES TP VOL 14 WITCHES (MR) $17.99 DC
77 73 1.59 OCT101199 GFT INFERNO TP $15.99 ZEN
78 34 1.58 APR100900 ART OF RED SONJA HC $29.99 DYN
79 103 1.57 OCT090390 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 11 FEAR THE HUNTERS (MR) $14.99 IMA
80 74 1.57 JUL100682-M AVENGERS COMING OF BEAST PREM HC $19.99 MAR
81 91 1.56 NOV101063 DEATH NOTE BLACK ED TP $14.99 VIZ
82 55 1.56 OCT100677-M MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 03 $24.99 MAR
83 56 1.55 NOV100648 AVENGERS ACADEMY PREM HC PERMANENT RECORD $24.99 MAR
84 94 1.55 NOV100677 X-MEN FOREVER 2 TP VOL 01 BACK IN ACTION $16.99 MAR
85 42 1.52 MAR100240 BLACKEST NIGHT HC $29.99 DC
86 226 1.52 SEP100108 BRODYS GHOST BOOK 02 $6.99 DAR
87 93 1.50 NOV100428 DARKCHYLDE TP VOL 01 LEGACY & REDEMPTION (MR) $16.99 IMA
88 108 1.47 JUN090332 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 10 WHAT WE BECOME $14.99 IMA
89 90 1.47 OCT100265 DOOM PATROL BROTHERHOOD TP $17.99 DC
90 69 1.45 NOV100339 DOCTOR WHO ONGOING TP VOL 03 FINAL SACRIFICE $19.99 IDW
91 109 1.44 OCT100720 SECRET WARRIORS TP VOL 03 WAKE BEAST $15.99 MAR
92 118 1.43 DEC058055 BATMAN DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TP $14.99 DC
93 111 1.43 SEP088208-M WALKING DEAD TP VOL 07 THE CALM BEFORE $14.99 IMA
94 49 1.41 NOV100674 WHAT IF CLASSIC TP VOL 07 $29.99 MAR
95 112 1.39 OCT100698 SIEGE TP THOR $15.99 MAR
96 48 1.37 OCT100768 KILLER HC VOL 03 MODUS VIVENDI (MR) $24.95 ARA
97 140 1.37 JUL108036 FABLES TP VOL 01 LEGENDS IN EXILE $12.99 DC
98 3 1.37 NOV100442 WALKING DEAD OMNIBUS HC VOL 03 $100.00 IMA
99 89 1.34 FEB058406-M WATCHMEN TP $19.99 DC
100 185 1.31 SEP100114 BRIDE OF THE WATER GOD TP VOL 07

Sixthly a non-commercial one. I have been running a poll here on my political blog. The objective is to see if there is a TV audience for regular political debates - not what Question Time mean by debate where 4 guests & the BBC compere gang up on 1 who dares to dispute, for example, global warming, but genuine formal debate where both sides get equall time & don'y get limited to 10 second soundbites. I am convinced that would be a popular political programme & that it would considerably enhance the standard of politics in Britain. I fear rhe BBC agree & that is why they don't do it. You can add your vote here

Seventhly there will be a comic mart at the QM Union on Saturday 26th Feb. from 11 o'clock. I will be there with a lot of older back issues.

Neil

2011-03-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

Firstly - TOP 50 GRAPHIC NOVELS
1 FABLES TP VOL 14 WITCHES (MR) $17.99 DC
2 SUPERMAN EARTH ONE HC $19.99 DC
3 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE $9.99 IMA
4 BRIGHTEST DAY HC VOL 01 $29.99 DC
5 PLANETARY TP BOOK 04 SPACETIME ARCHAEOLOGY $17.99 DC
6 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 13 TOO FAR GONE (MR) $14.99 IMA
7 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 02 MILES BEHIND US (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
8 SWEET TOOTH TP VOL 02 IN CAPTIVITY (MR) $12.99 DC
9 STAR WARS CLONE WARS YR TP VOL 06 DEADLY HANDS OF SHON JU $7.99 DAR
10 SUPERMAN SECRET ORIGIN DELUXE HC $29.99 DC
11 IRREDEEMABLE TP VOL 05 $16.99 BOO
12 STAR WARS LEGACY TP VOL 10 EXTREMES $15.99 DAR
13 BATMAN THE WIDENING GYRE HC VOL 01 $19.99 DC
14 BLEACH TP VOL 33 $9.99 VIZ
15 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TALES HC $29.99 DAR
16 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 03 SAFETY BEHIND BARS $14.99 IMA
17 UNCANNY X-MEN TP BIRTH OF GENERATION HOPE $16.99 MAR
18 SUPERMAN BATMAN BIG NOISE TP $14.99 DC
19 X-NECROSHA TP $34.99 MAR
20 X-FORCE SEX AND VIOLENCE HC $19.99 MAR
21 INCORRUPTIBLE TP VOL 03 (MR) $16.99 BOO
22 CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 20 NIGHT OF WOLF $18.99 DAR
23 YOTSUBA & ! GN VOL 09 $10.99 HAC
24 BATMAN DEAD TO RIGHTS TP $14.99 DC
25 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES TP VOL 14 $7.95 ARC
26 GUILD TP VOL 01 $12.99 DAR
27 BATGIRL THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD TP $19.99 DC
28 PREACHER HC BOOK 03 (MR) $39.99 DC
29 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 12 LIFE AMONG THEM $14.99 IMA
30 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 05 BEST DEFENSE (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
31 BATMAN CHRONICLES TP VOL 10 $14.99 DC
32 SHOWCASE PRESENTS OUR ARMY AT WAR TP VOL 01 $19.99 DC
33 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 04 HEARTS DESIRE (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
34 JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA AXIS OF EVIL TP $14.99 DC
35 HACK SLASH OMNIBUS TP VOL 03 (IMAGE ED) $34.99 IMA
36 DEADPOOL TEAM-UP TP VOL 01 GOOD BUDDIES $19.99 MAR
37 VAMPIRE KNIGHT TP VOL 11 $9.99 VIZ
38 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 06 SORROWFUL LIFE (MR) $14.99 IMA
39 VAMPIRELLA ARCHIVES HC VOL 01 $49.99 DYN
40 SCOTT PILGRIM GN VOL 01 PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE $11.99 ONI
41 AXE COP TP VOL 01 $14.99 DAR
42 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 10 WHAT WE BECOME $14.99 IMA
43 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 11 FEAR THE HUNTERS (MR) $14.99 IMA
44 TWO STEP TP (MR) $19.99 DC
45 JOHN CARTER OF MARS WEIRD WORLDS TP $14.99 DAR
46 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 09 HERE WE REMAIN (MR) $14.99 IMA
47 CLASSIC GI JOE TP VOL 10 $24.99 IDW
48 WALKING DEAD HC VOL 01 (MR) $34.99 IMA
49 TALES FROM WONDERLAND TP VOL 03 $12.99 ZEN
50 STAR WARS OMNIBUS TP QUINLAN VOS JEDI IN DARKNESS $24.99 DAR

Google Review I ran across

2010-05-26T10:47:00.000-07:00

this is a great little comic book store...‎
By hempknight - Apr 11, 2009
- a little off the beaten track, but worth it. the proprietor is hugely enthusiastic and helpful, and more than willing to reserve new titles and create standing orders. this is a much more pleasant prospect than fighting off the hordes at forbidden planet... ...‎

Ken MacLeod interview

2010-04-21T07:01:00.000-07:00

Scottish science fistion writer has an interview in the Morning Star

"Science fiction is necessarily political because it depends on what assumptions you have about the nature of society," he says.

I no longer define myself as a socialist, but it stuns me that there's a whole generation of growing up - a generation who are younger than my own children - who lack the idea of socialism as an implicit alternative...

"What might a future without any socialism look like? It's not necessarily an attractive prospect." ...

"I was a regular reader of the Morning Star back then," admits MacLeod, who fictionalises a future version of this paper in some of his novels.

"For me, in the '80s, the Morning Star was a voice of sanity in a mad world, even if it was sometimes a rather dull voice...

A lot of the formal rules of the left are still based on 19th-century communications technology - the idea that revolutionary politics are built around a top-level party line set down by a newspaper, which everyone has to agree with. The internet negates that process," he says, adding hastily that "the Star has a head start, in that it allows in voices from outside the party."

MacLeod reserves special disdain for elements of anti-humanist thought in the green movement, which he satirises in several of his novels.

"I think siding with nature against humanity is despicable. The fundamental thing as far as I'm concerned is that you have to judge everything in terms of human interest.

"There is an element in green thinking which rejects this totally and says that the interests of other organisms, and rocks and so forth, need to be taken into account.

"This is not my view at all. I'm quite strongly in favour of humanity developing and improving, and suspicious of the Malthusian logic preached by people like George Monbiot."

So does some green thinking tend towards the fascistic? "It's much worse than that - at least fascism believed in some human beings!"

ART IMITATES SCIENCE FICTION AGAIN

2010-04-13T04:44:00.000-07:00

This is the logo of the new British Space Centre

And

this is the logo of the Ministry of Space in Warrne Ellis & Chris Weston's admirable graphic novel of the same name.

Personally I prefer Ellis' original - it is slim, elegant, sharp, is derived from our history (use of the roundel) & looks like a rocket while the other looks like a bloated vehicle which will have difficulty getting off the ground.

DUE THURS 21st JAN

2010-01-19T06:32:00.000-08:00

BARRY WINDSOR SMITH CONAN ARCHIVES HC VOL 01 RAPTURE #6 (OF 6)
SOLOMON KANE DEATHS BLACK RIDERS #1 (OF 4)
STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 02 NEW PTG
STAR WARS DARK TIMES #15 BLUE HARVEST PT 3 (OF 5)
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OLD REPUBLIC #49 DEMON PT 3 (OF 4)

AUTHORITY THE LOST YEAR #5 (OF 12)
AZRAEL #4
BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #8
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #13
BLACKEST NIGHT THE FLASH #2 (OF 3)
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #31
FREE REALMS #5 (OF 12)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #44 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA SANCTUARY TP
$14.99
OUTSIDERS #26
PHANTOM STRANGER #42 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
POWER GIRL #8
REBELS TP VOL 01 THE COMING OF STARRO
STARCRAFT #7
STARMAN #81 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
SUPERBOY THE GREATEST TEAM UPS EVER TOLD TP
SUPERMAN BATMAN #68
SUPERNATURAL BEGINNINGS END #1 (OF 6)
TINY TITANS #24

DARKNESS SHADOWS & FLAME (ONE SHOT)
IMAGE UNITED #2 (OF 6) CURR PTG (PP #900)
JERSEY GODS #10

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #618 GNTLT
BLACK WIDOW AND MARVEL GIRLS #3 (OF 4)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #602
CAPTAIN AMERICA ROAD TO REBORN TP
DARK AVENGERS #13 SIEGE
DARK WOLVERINE #82 SIEGE
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #7
DEATHLOK #3 (OF 7)
DOCTOR VOODOO AVENGER OF SUPERNATURAL #4
EXCALIBUR VISIONARIES ALAN DAVIS TP VOL 02
HULK #19 FOH
HULK FALL OF THE HULKS PRELUDE TP
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #140
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IT'S "FINE ART" JIM & JUST AS WE ALREADY KNOW IT

2010-01-17T08:53:00.000-08:00

This is FINE ART by Glenn Brown an original artist so well thought of that this painting was nominated for the Turner prize in 2000.

According to the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, which we all have the honour of paying for

Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer. Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the familiar into the alien. Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material. Naturalistic colour becomes putrid or kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque and heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat.

And this is from the presumably considerably greater & certainly more original & more accurate* artist Anthony Roberts who painted it in 1974 (& who isn't within the charmed circle of state subsidised artists)

As the BBC reported "Glenn Brown has frequently used the work of other artists in developing his own work, but that is true of Picasso, who borrowed from Rembrandt ... this is not new.

"He uses other artists' work, but that doesn't mean to say you could possibly mistake his work for theirs... he takes the image, he transforms it, he gives it a completely different scale." Scale presumably means some form of ethereal artistic scale since nobody knowing anything about art could fail to be aware that the paintings on book covers are not painted that size but taken fromm full size paintings.

* While Brown's Sun colouring of greeney blue may have the advantage of being more "putrid" the original has the advantage of being a colour that real planets can be.

2009-12-24T07:28:00.000-08:00

Looking through Google for suitable spacey images I came across this rather unsuitable old Soviet one.

It appals to me because it unintentionally shows how united the world is. The modern Santa Claus outfit was invented by Coca-Cola's advertising agency which is why it is in the company colours. The Soviet Santa is not quite the western one but is clearly influenced by that capitalist invention.

The rocket in the background is, like those in Tin Tin & most cartoon western ones, a V2 with added windows.

Have a Merry Christmas

Neil Craig

PRE-OWNED COMPUTER GAMES

2009-10-31T10:37:00.000-07:00

I have decided to try out the market for 2nd hand computer games.

I expect to be competitive with whjat is available online here.

For credit (ie exchange) I am willing to pay 45% of what I hope for as a retail sale.

For cash that will be 20%.

I’ve Seen the Future and It Is…Safe? by Bill Willingham

2009-10-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

This links to a rather good article by Bill Willingham (author of the Fables series of comics or as the literati style it - the Fables series of Graphic Novels, available at good bookstores). His theme is that the reason there is a reason why we don't have most of the things that Dan Dare promised us (flying cars, Moonbases, Atomic spaceships) even though we have some things on which we are actually ahead of the promised curve (colour TV, mobile phones, internet).
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“It’s not the future until we have jetpacks and flying cars. They promised us jetpacks and flying cars! Where are they?” And I realized there’s no escaping this question, either from Chris or any of a myriad other sources. The future isn’t allowed to be here until we have our jetpacks and flying cars. And that’s just the minimum. Space stations, moon cities and personal household robots are also to be desired for a fully functioning future.

... I pondered, and then despaired when a terrible realization hit me. We are in the future, Chris. We got our jetpacks and flying cars. We’ve had them for years.

...We don’t have them because we rejected them. We collectively said, and continue to say, “No thanks.”

And why is that?

Because they’re not safe.

Sure, they’re safer than the first airplanes were in their infancy

I disagree on 2 points but neither are material to his conclusion that we could & should have the future we were promised. The smaller one is that there is a genuine traffic control problem with flying cars, but it is a soluble one on which I have written before.

My bigger disagreement is that it is not us who have decided that we want to be scared of everything but that it is our parasitic government who has given itself a mission to protect us from life. Government has a vast amount of our money to spend & has to find some excuse for doing so which is why government funded quangos & fakecharities are always trying to stir up a scare story on something irrespective of there being no actual evidence (global warming, GM food, food colouring) That the primary objective is to give government an excuse to spend money is that in things for which government is really responsible (MRSA in hospitals, hypothermia due to fuel poverty, the 70 million the DDT ban killed) it does not act to prevent death - indeed the opposite - it is having government involvement, not whether it kills or cures that matters. Another example of this is in housing where, yet again, we have long had the technical capability, as Heinlein said, to provide unlimited good, cheap modular housing but purely because of government parasitism we don't get it, so clearly it isn't purely or even primarily a safety issue.

Indeed look at how individuals behave. Richard Branson is always flying round the world in a condom, skiing is as popular as ever, bungee jumping moreso & teenage kids still motorcycle. It is not individuals who don't want adventure but government which gains power through claiming it alone can protect us from dangers & no longer has the USSR to threaten us with now has to make do with protecting us from all the "dangers" of progress, real or more often imaginary.

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For THURS 20th AUG

2009-08-15T03:44:00.000-07:00

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NEW THURS AUGUST 13th

2009-08-08T07:40:00.000-07:00

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RELEASES Thus Aug 6th

2009-08-01T04:01:00.000-07:00

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #27
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SATELLITE 2 convention

2009-07-27T07:13:00.000-07:00

Saturday & Sunday I was at the Satellite 2 Convention celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Moon landing/commiserating that we can't do it any more. Apparently somebody who didn't go denounced it as being a space advocacy convention masquerading as a science fiction convention & there is something to that. But that suits me because I am way into space advocacy. Nonetheless with 2 fairly extensive programme streams of talks, panels, & silly games it was pretty cool.

The Future of Space Exploration (Nik Whitehead, Iain Banks, Andy Nimmo, Frank O'Brien, David Woods was a somewhat pessimistic panel about what will be done in space by 2025 (not a lot - NASA might get back to the Moon by then) & over the next 50 years (the Moon & just about reaching Mars). In questions I asked government funding of an X-Prize Foundation by £1 billion a year would improve things. We had already discussed that Obama has no problem talking about spending trillions & mere billions are old hat. 4 of the 5 agreed that it would very much help. The 4th also said it would but that it would do so so successfully that it would make space look easy which would make it more difficult to persuade taxpayers they would have to pay the gigantic sums a NASA mission to Mars. I can live with that.

Ed Buckley did a talk on period with a newspaper cover from the day of the landing. Marianne Faithful saying what a good thing it was was relegated to the inside so perhaps the media were a little more sensible then but not much.

The Small Space panel (Phil Wellings, Robert Law, Duncan McInnes) was on what small countries (well OK mainly Scotland) can do in space. Professor McInnes produced a Cubesat - a satellite 20cm on a side which can be launched by very small rockets , or in large multiples & yet, modern electronics being what they are can carry an awful lot of capacity. You can buy one online now if your credit card is big enough. There was also discussion of small equatorial states being in a particularly good situation & Andy Nimmo mentioned Sao Tome, just off the African coast. I mentioned Ascension Island, though it was pointed out the America, having a base, might be in a position to object.

Colin McInnes talk was previously given at the RPSoG & I reported it then. His title this time Random Thoughts of a Techno-Utopist Running Dog was taken from what a colleague had said to him after that lecture. This time he was clearly with an audience who understands & was even more enthusiastic for progress & against the anti-progress movement which is raising hysteria against key technologies (nuclear GM), encouraging risk aversion in anything new & encouraging stifling bureaucracy.

I also met him for the first time while I was having a rant about every last Scottish MSP being clinically insane.

Robert Law did a talk on returning to the Moon the last bit of which was the most interesting because it was about the Chinese who, unlike NASA, look like doing things. He said that the Shengzhou spacecraft - an updated Soyuz itself derived from Redstone, which wasn't selected for the Gemini system, is the world's most advanced. The intended American rocket Constellation, being an updated Apollo which in turn is derived from Gemini. He expected the Chinese to go to the Moon in 2017-25. By that time, at current growth rates, China will be the world's biggest economy.
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A couple of interesting figures - a Shuttle launch costs $300 million whereas Soyuz, admittedly with a smaller payload, is $20 million. That Britain is currently spending £275 million annually on ESA (less than I thought but a firm figure). On that basis a British X-Prize foundation, funded purely from the money we currently waste on ESA, committed to that sum growing in line with interest in such prizes & allowed to offer prizes on the assumption that they will only be won after several years, would, right now, be able to offer prizes sufficient to create a commercial reusable British owned shuttle.

NEW THURS 30th JULY

2009-07-25T04:13:00.000-07:00
PREVIEWS #251 AUGUST 2009

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STAR TREK MISSIONS END #5

SATELLITE 2 CONVENTION

2009-07-19T07:07:00.000-07:00
July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and so some of programme will have a lunar theme, ranging from discussions of how the moon is portrayed in SF, to the chance to fake your very own moon landing!

The convention is at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Congress Road, Glasgow, adjoining the SECCso you can't miss it

HERE IS THE PROGRAMME OF NEXT WEEK'S CONVENTION

Time Main (Argyll 1)#########Alternative (Argyll 2)
SATURDAY
10:30 Opening Ceremony
11:00 i21st Century Exploration
- 1960s Hardware David Woods #####Eco-Con?
12:00 Literary Moon##########iMusic of the Spheres
Mark Meenan (M), Ed Buckley,
David Dryden, Mike Gallagher
Cuddles
1:00 Inadvisable Rocket Science###Fortean Time
Phil Wellings
Ksimes (M), Dalg, Fran Dowd, John Dowd, Rhionnach
2:00 Guest of Honour
Iain M Banks
3:30 Once More With Feeling...
Steve Rogerson et al#########Chaos Modelling:
Alex Holden##################Build a Lunar Lander
4:30 The Life of a Star
Nik Whitehead
5:30 The Future of Space Exploration##One Small Step
Nik Whitehead (M), Iain M Banks.#######Mad Elf
Andy Nimmo, Frank O'Brien,David Woods
6:30 Night is Day####Do you worship Cthulhu?
Fraser Coull#########Throgg the Despicable
7:30 (closed for turnaround)
9:00 Beach Party on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity

SUNDAY
Time Main ################### Alternative
10:00 Me and the Moon: ######finding Uranus
A personal reflection########Mad Elf
Ed Buckley
11:00 Small Space?#########iLunar Pub Sign Workshop
Phil Wellings (M), Robert Law,
Duncan Lunan, Colin McInnes
12:00 The Apollo Guidance Computer System
Frank O'Brien
1:00 Culturally Challenged###Moon Rover Driving Test
DC (M), Iain M Banks,######## Munchkin
Mike Cobley, David Haddock
2:00 Where Science Produces Art##fantasy Football' Con
Alligator Descartes
3:00 Room 101#############Media Moon
Iain M Banks #########Dalg (M), Mad Elf, Mike Cobley
4:00 Random Thoughts of a#######Grumpy Old Fen
Techno-Utopist Running Dog####Ian Sorensen et al
Colin McInnes
5:00 Return to the Moon#######Book and Comic Auction
Robert Law ###################Mark Meenan
6:30 Closing Ceremony
8:00 Dead Dog Party
featuring SF and Space Pub Quiz and space band Arbelos

Membership £50 on the door
Adult One-Day £25 on the door

I will be closing early on Saturday 2.00 & will be at the convention after that including Sunday. Colin McInnes (Sunday 4.00) did a very good lecture for the Glasgow Royal Phil last year & is exactly the sort of technophile I agree with. He also regularly has letters in the Herald saying that it would be a good idea not to let Scotland's lights go out - something of a minority opinion among our political leaders.

RELEASES JULY 23rd

2009-07-18T06:37:00.000-07:00
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CYBERFORCE HUNTER KILLER #1 (OF 5)
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RELEASE THURS 16th JULY

2009-07-11T08:44:00.000-07:00
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NEW RELEASES 9th JULY

2009-07-04T05:12:00.000-07:00
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DARKNESS #78
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UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS #1 (OF 8)
WAR OF KINGS WARRIORS #1 (OF 2)
X-MEN FOREVER #3
X-MEN LEGACY #226 DAX
X-MEN SHATTERING TP
$34.99

ANGEL NOT FADE AWAY #3
ARMY OF DARKNESS #22
$3.50
DEAN KOONTZS NEVERMORE #2 (OF 6)
FROM THE ASHES #2
GHOST WHISPERER THE MUSE TP VOL 01
$11.99
GI JOE BEST OF STORM SHADOW GN
$19.99
GI JOE MOVIE ADAPTATION #2 (OF 4)
GI JOE ORIGINS #5
JUNGLE GIRL SEASON 2 #5 (OF 5)
MAN WITH NO NAME TP VOL 01 SINNERS & SAINTS
$19.99
ROBERT JORDANS WHEEL OF TIME EYE O/T WORLD #1
STAR TREK CREW #5
STAR TREK TNG LAST GENERATION TP
$19.99
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #7 A CVR CRUZ
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY #1
TRANSFORMERS MAXIMUM DINOBOTS TP VOL 01
$19.99
WORLD WAR ROBOT TP VOL 02
$11.99

New Releases 2nd July

2009-06-27T03:42:00.000-07:00
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #26 JEANTY CVR
OH MY GODDESS RTL TP VOL 12
$10.95
STAR WARS INVASION #1 (OF 5)
UNBOUND SAGA ONE SHOT
WITCHFINDER IN THE SERVICE OF ANGELS #1 (OF 5)

ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #3 (OF 4)
AUTHORITY #12
BATMAN AND ROBIN #2
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #31
BRAVE AND THE BOLD WITHOUT SIN TP
$17.99
BROKEN BLADE VOL 01
DEAD ROMEO #4 (OF 6)
EL DIABLO THE HAUNTED HORSEMAN TP
$17.99
EMMA VOL 09
$9.99
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH RUN #3 (OF 6)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #1 SPECIAL EDITION
JONAH HEX #45
JUSTICE LEAGUE CRY FOR JUSTICE #1 (OF 7) CVR A
MIGHTY #6
SECRET SIX #11
SOLOMON GRUNDY #5 (OF 7)
STRANGE ADVENTURES #5 (OF 8)
Y THE LAST MAN #1 SPECIAL EDITION

FIREBREATHER TP VOL 01 (NEW PTG)
$14.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #150 (NOTE PRICE)
SPAWN #193
SPAWN ENDGAME TP VOL 01
$14.99
WITCHBLADE #128

AGENTS OF ATLAS #7 DKR
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #8
ASTONISHING TALES #6
CABLE #16
CAPTAIN AMERICA FIGHTING CHANCE TP VOL 02 ACCEPTANCE
$19.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #1 (OF 5)
DAREDEVIL FATHER TP
$19.99
DAREDEVIL NOIR #4 (OF 4)
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #1
EXILES #4
FANTASTIC FOUR #568
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #15 DKR
MARVEL DIVAS #1 (OF 4)
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED TP THREE MUSKETEERS
$14.99
MARVEL YOUR UNIVERSE #6
PLANET SKAAR PROLOGUE ONE-SHOT 2ND PTG PANOSIAN VAR
RUNAWAYS ROCK ZOMBIES PREM HC
$19.99
TROJAN WAR #3 (OF 5)
UNCANNY X-MEN #513 DAX
$3.99
USA COMICS #1 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
WAR OF KINGS #5 (OF 6)
WOLVERINE #72 2ND PTG MCNIVEN VAR

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FINAL FIVE #4 (OF 4)
BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #172
FARSCAPE STRANGE DETRACTORS #4 (OF 4)
IRREDEEMABLE #4
SIMPSONS SUPER SPECTACULAR #9
SOULFIRE #10 JOE BENITEZ CVR
SWALLOWING THE EARTH GN
$24.95
VAMPIRELLA COUNTDOWN TO SECOND COMING SAMPERE SKETCHBOOK

H. Beam Piper

2009-06-22T09:38:00.000-07:00
Being a great fan of H. Beam Piper's SF stories, a lot of which aren't in print I have been reading online here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p

He wrote 2, possibly interlocking, series. a fairly straight future history of a planetary federation collapsing into an eventual galactic empire & the Paratime series involving alternate universes being policed (& exploited) by the paratime Police. he best of the former is Space Viking & the best known is Little Fuzzy. he best of the latter is Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen aka Gunpowder God.

EW RELEASES - THURS JUNE 25TH

2009-06-20T04:16:00.000-07:00
PREVIEWS #250 JULY 2009 Free if you use it to order something

CLEANERS #4 (OF 4)
END LEAGUE #8
PREDATOR #1 (OF 4)
RAPTURE #2 (OF 6) TAKI SOMA CVR
STAR WARS LEGACY #37 TATOOINE PT 1 (OF 4)
USAGI YOJIMBO #121
ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER TP VOL 01
$19.99
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #6
DETECTIVE COMICS #854
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH INK #2 (OF 6)
FRINGE #6 (OF 6)
GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #1
GREEN LANTERN #42
GREEN LANTERN TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS TP
$14.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #34
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #28
KIICHI AND THE MAGIC BOOKS VOL 05
$9.99
KILLAPALOOZA #2 (OF 6)
LAST DAYS OF ANIMAL MAN #2 (OF 6)
SGT ROCK THE LOST BATTALION #6 (OF 6)
SPIRIT #30
STARCRAFT #2
SUPERMAN #689
SUPERMAN TALES FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE TP
$19.99
TEEN TITANS #72
WILDCATS #12
WONDER WOMAN #33
DYNAMO 5 #22
FIREBREATHER TP VOL 01 (NEW PTG)
$14.99
FUSION #2 (OF 3)
LILLIM #4 (OF 5)
MILO VENTIMIGLIA PRESENTS BERSERKER #1 HAUN CVR B
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #598 DKR
ASTONISHING X-MEN #30
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #25 DKR
AVENGERS INVADERS #12 (OF 12)
DAREDEVIL #119
DARK AVENGERS #6 DKR
DARK AVENGERS UNCANNY X-MEN UTOPIA #1 DAX
DARK REIGN ACCEPT CHANGE TP
$24.99
DARK REIGN ELEKTRA #4 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN HOOD #2 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN LETHAL LEGION #1 (OF 3) DKR
DARK REIGN SINISTER SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 4) DEODATO VAR
DARK REIGN ZODIAC #1 (OF 3) DKR
DARK WOLVERINE #75 DKR
ESSENTIAL DOCTOR STRANGE TP VOL 04
$19.99
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #15
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #27
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #130
MS MARVEL #40 DKR
NEW AVENGERS #54 DKR
NOVA #26
PATSY WALKER HELLCAT TP DM ED
$16.99
RIFTWAR #1 (OF 5)
RUNAWAYS 3 #11
SECRET INVASION CHRONICLES #4 (OF 9)
SECRET WARRIORS #5 DKR
SKAAR SON OF HULK #12
SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #12
THOR #602
THOR VISIONARIES WALT SIMONSON TP VOL 03 NEW PTG
$29.99
THUNDERBOLTS #133 DKR
TIMESTORM 2009/2099 X-MEN
UNCANNY X-MEN #512
VENOM TP DARK ORIGIN
$14.99
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #16
WOLVERINE NOIR #3 (OF 4)
WOLVERINE WEAPON X #3
X-FACTOR #45
X-FORCE #16 XMW
X-MEN FOREVER #2
BART SIMPSON COMICS #48
CARS ROOKIE #3 (OF 4)
FARSCAPE DARGOS LAMENT #3 (OF 4)
RED SONJA #45
ZORRO #14

World's best comic collection opens to public in France

2009-06-19T06:57:00.000-07:00
From the Independent:

The Musée de la bande dessinée in Angoulème in south-west France claims to have the largest collection of comic books and original comic book artwork in Europe, and possibly the world.

More than 8,000 original drawings and more than 110,000 magazines and comic books have been assembled in a converted factory. All the great names of French and Belgian comic strip art are represented, from Hergé, father of Tintin, to André Franquin (creator of Gaston Lagaffe and the Marsupilami) and René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (Asterix). There are also sections devoted to American comic strips, from Peanuts to Superman and Marvel Comics.

The museum will have full status as a Musée de France, alongside such institutions as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles. Its opening marks the further consecration of the “bande dessinée” – a huge industry in France selling 33,600,000 comic books a year – as a separate art form in its own right.

The museum’s director, Ambroise Lassalle, said: “Partly, we celebrate the fun side of comic books, as a form of leisure activity which is very popular with the young and not just the young. But we also want to explain, and to celebrate, the rich history of comic books and show why they have been recognised in the last 20 years as a separate and legitimate art form, used by those who need to express themselves simultaneously in words and drawings.” The “ninth art”, as the comic book is sometimes called in France, has finally won recognition this year in the wider art world. The Louvre recently organised an exhibition of original comic book art which attempted to trace the influence of classical painters on famous bédéistes – the French generic word for the creators of bande dessinées or BDs.

The glossy French magazine Beaux Arts, mostly preoccupied by painting and sculpture, has just published a special edition entirely devoted to the bande dessinée. Fabrice Bousteau, editor of the magazine, said: “There is no distinction worth making between art and comic books. Both have a rightful place in museums and bookshops.”

... Angoulème hosts an annual comic book festival each January and has established itself as Europe’s cartoon strip capital. The new museum will be the official depository of every comic book published in France, in the same way that the Bibliothèque National in Paris receives a free copy of other types of new book.

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS

2009-06-14T09:39:00.000-07:00

This is a link to the screenplay for Heinlein's - THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. by Tim Minear. It isn't as good as the book but what could be. It has little of the libertarian politics& like all films it is less complex than a book can be nonetheless most of the words are from the book & some stuff like the line marriage, which is pretty controversial even today, in some ways even moreso today, stays in. In the book Mike produces actual video pictures by computer graphic - an incredible concept back when Heinlein wrote it, indeed so incredible I think he was the first to think of it. The film does an interesting way of taking that to a level as improbable now as CGI was then.

And the ending does live up to Heinlein.

http://socalbrowncoats.com/images/moonfriday.pdf

What a pity this won't be produced but but if it was being we wouldn't get to read the script.

Perhaps some of Heinlein's juveniles or short stories could be converted to film without cutting because they are automatically less complex. I think Star Beast, Podkayne of Mars or the Menace from Earth would work. I have long thought Gentlemen be Seated would make a very good play - like Waiting for Godot but with more sense of purpose. On even numbered days my favourite Heinlein is Friday but though, the story & the character make James Bond look look second rate I doubt if film is a medium that would be able to do anything but eviscerate it.

NEW RELEASES - JUNE 18th

2009-06-12T03:27:00.000-07:00
CONAN LEGACY FRAZETTA COVER #3 (OF 8)
REX MUNDI DH ED #18
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OLD REPUBLIC #42 MASKS PT 1 (OF 3)

ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #12
BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #1
BATMAN THE BLACK CASEBOOK TP
$17.99
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #24
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH DANCE #2 (OF 6)
FLAT EARTH EXCHANGE VOL 04
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #21
GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS WAR TP VOL 02
$14.99
HITMAN TP VOL 01 A RAGE IN ARKHAM TP NEW PTG
$14.99
MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE #6 (OF 6)
OUTSIDERS #19
POWER GIRL #2
SUPERGIRL #42
SUPERMAN BATMAN #61
VIGILANTE #7
WORLD OF WARCRAFT #20

DARKNESS #78
FUSION #2 (OF 3)
INVINCIBLE #63
MICE TEMPLAR TP VOL 01
$17.99

ALL NEW SAVAGE SHE-HULK #3 (OF 4) DKR
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL TP VOL 05 MAYBREAK
$16.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #7
CABLE #15 XMW
CAPTAIN AMERICA #600
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #14
DARK REIGN FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN HAWKEYE #3 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN MISTER NEGATIVE #1 (OF 3) DKR
DARK REIGN YOUNG AVENGERS #2 (OF 5) DKR
DARK TOWER THE FALL OF GILEAD #2 (OF 6)
FANTASTIC FORCE #3 (OF 5)
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #14 DKR
MARVEL PETS HANDBOOK
MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 #3 (OF 4)
MIGHTY AVENGERS #26 DKR
POWER PACK CLASSIC TP VOL 01
$29.99
PUNISHER #6 DKR
PUNISHER YEAR ONE TP
$12.99
THE IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN TP
$34.99
THOR TRIAL OF THOR
ULTIMATUM SPIDER-MAN REQUIEM #1 (OF 2)
WAR OF KINGS ASCENSION #3 (OF 4)
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #37 DKR
X-MEN LEGACY #225
X-MEN ORIGINS GAMBIT #1
YOUNG ALLIES COMICS #1 70TH ANNIV SPECIAL

CARS ROOKIE #3 (OF 4)
FALL OF CTHULHU NEMESIS #3 (OF 4)
FATHOM DAWN OF WAR TP VOL 01 (NEW PTG) (O/A)
$9.99
MAN WITH NO NAME #11
MASQUERADE #4
NEXUS AS IT HAPPENED TP VOL 01
$9.99
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS CHAPTER TWO #0
SIMPSONS COMICS #155

COMICS OVERSTOCK

2009-06-07T09:22:00.000-07:00
I have for a long time been selling assorted overstock comics at a boxful for £5. I am now extending this by selling the overstock I pull out still bagged at £5 for a any 10 or £1 individually. These still carry the original price which runs from £1 to £7.50 each so you can see it is a bargain.

NEW RELEASES JUNE 11

2009-06-06T03:44:00.000-07:00
BPRD WAR ON FROGS #3 (OF 4)
DRAGONERO TP
$19.95

ACTION COMICS #878
BATMAN #686 3RD PTG
BATMAN #687
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #30
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH ESCAPE #2 (OF 6)
FINAL CRISIS COMPANION TP
$19.99
FLASH REBIRTH #3 (OF 6)
FLASH THE HUMAN RACE TP
$14.99
GEN 13 #30
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #37
JIHAI VOL 02
JSA VS KOBRA ENGINES OF FAITH #1 (OF 6)
REBELS #5
RED ROBIN #1
RED TP NEW EDITION
$14.99
SHOWCASE PRESENTS GREEN LANTERN TP VOL 04
$16.99
MAR090167
SPIRIT #29
STORMING PARADISE #6 (OF 6) (RES)
SUPER FRIENDS #16
SUPERMAN LAST SON TP
$12.99
TITANS #14
SAVAGE DRAGON #149
WITCHBLADE DARKNESS ANGELUS BLOOD ON SANDS (ONE SHOT)

ADAM LEGEND OF THE BLUE MARVEL TP DM ED
$19.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #597 DKR
BETA RAY BILL GODHUNTER #1 (OF 3)
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 TP VOL 02 HELL COMES TO BIRMINGHAM
$14.99
DARK AVENGERS #4 2ND PTG DEODATO VAR (PP #868)
DARK REIGN DEADPOOL THUNDERBOLTS TP
$12.99
DEADPOOL #11 DKR
ENDERS GAME RECRUITING VALENTINE
ESSENTIAL THOR TP VOL 04
$19.99
EXCALIBUR VISIONARIES ALAN DAVIS TP VOL 01
$24.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #567
GENEXT UNITED #2 OF (5)
LOCKJAW AND THE PET AVENGERS #2 (OF 4)
MISS AMERICA COMICS #1 70TH ANNIV SPECIAL
NEW MUTANTS #1 2ND PTG NEVES VAR (PP #868)
PRIDE & PREJUDICE #3 (OF 5)
RUNAWAYS TP VOL 08 DEAD END KIDS DIGEST
$9.99
THOR TALES OF ASGARD BY LEE & KIRBY #2 (OF 6)
UNCANNY X-MEN #511
UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS GIANT-SIZE SPECIAL #1
WAR OF KINGS SAVAGE WORLD OF SKAAR
WOLVERINE #74
X-FACTOR #44
X-MEN FOREVER #1
X-MEN THE END TRILOGY TP
$34.99
ARMY OF DARKNESS #21
BUCK ROGERS #1
FATHOM KIANI TP VOL 01 BLADE OF FIRE
$14.99
PHANTOM GHOST WHO WALKS #3 CVR A
RESURRECTION VOL 2 #1
SHERLOCK HOLMES #2 (OF 5)
SOULFIRE NEW WORLD ORDER #2 (OF 5) CALDWELL CVR
STREET FIGHTER LEGENDS CHUN LI #3 (OF 4) A CVR DOGAN
TERMINATOR REVOLUTION #5 (OF 5)
UNKNOWN #2 (OF 4)
UNTHINKABLE #2 (OF 4)

LOOK & LEARN

2009-06-02T04:04:00.000-07:00
I have received a collection of Look & Learn comics from the 1960s:

Issues 258,379,383,391,392,395,409,417,421,422,427,448,448,507,509-518,520-542,544-599,607-612,614,616-628,630-653,655-64,668-75,677,678,680-683,697-706,709-11,713-715,720-754,757-787,790, 1976 summer special.

232 issues running from ecember 1966 to 1977

Will sell each individually for £1 (£2 if issues up to #448) or the entire collection for £125. Postage extra.

NEW RELEASES - JUNE 4

2009-05-30T03:42:00.000-07:00
BTVS TALES OF THE VAMPIRES ONE SHOT
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #11
SHAMAN WARRIOR TP VOL 07
$12.95
WEREWOLVES ON THE MOON VERSUS VAMPIRES #1 (OF 3)

ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #2 (OF 4)
AUTHORITY #11
BATGIRL REDEMPTION TP
$19.99
BATMAN AND ROBIN #1
DEAD ROMEO #3 (OF 6)
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH RUN #2 (OF 6)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS SINS OF THE STAR SAPPHIRE TP
$14.99
JONAH HEX #44
MIGHTY #5
MOON CHILD VOL 13
OCEAN TP NEW EDITION warrern ellis
$19.99
SECRET SIX #10
SOLOMON GRUNDY #4 (OF 7)
STRANGE ADVENTURES #4 (OF 8)
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #4 (OF 12)
WARLORD #3

JERSEY GODS #5
SPAWN #192
WITCHBLADE DARKNESS ANGELUS BLOOD ON SANDS (ONE SHOT)

AGENTS OF ATLAS #6 DKR
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #596 DKR
ASTONISHING TALES #5
BLACK PANTHER 2 #5 DKR
CAPTAIN AMERICA FIGHTING CHANCE TP VOL 01 DENIAL
$19.99
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 ANNUAL #1
DAREDEVIL NOIR #3 (OF 4)
DARK AVENGERS #5 DKR
DEADPOOL SUICIDE KINGS #3 (OF 5)
EXILES #3
MARVEL YOUR UNIVERSE #5
MIGHTY AVENGERS #25 DKR
NEW AVENGERS REUNION #4 (OF 4) DKR
NEW MUTANTS #2
OFFICIAL INDEX TO MARVEL UNIVERSE #6
SENTRY TP AGE OF SENTRY DM ED
$19.99
SHE-HULK TP VOL 09 LADY LIBERATORS
$14.99
SKAAR #11
THUNDERBOLTS #131 2ND PTG DAZO VAR (PP #867)
TIMESTORM 2009/2099 SPIDER-MAN
TROJAN WAR #2 (OF 5)
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #133
ULTIMATUM #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG FINCH VAR
ULTIMATUM #2 (OF 5) 3RD PTG FINCH VAR
ULTIMATUM #3 (OF 5) 2ND PTG FINCH VAR
ULTIMATUM #4 (OF 5)
UNCANNY X-MEN LOVELORN TP
$15.99
WAR OF KINGS #4 (OF 6)
WOLVERINE REVOLVER #1

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FINAL FIVE #3 (OF 4)
CAPTAIN BLOOD ODYSSEY #1 (OF 5)
DEAD IRONS #4 (OF 4)
FARSCAPE STRANGE DETRACTORS #3 (OF 4)
FLASH GORDON #5
IRREDEEMABLE #3
SIMPSONS SUMMER SHINDIG #3
TALES FROM THE CRYPT #12

RELEASES THURS 29th MAY

2009-05-23T08:52:00.000-07:00
ALIENS #1 (OF 4)
RAPTURE #1 OEMING CVR
STAR WARS LEGACY #36 RENEGADE
USAGI YOJIMBO #120

BATMAN IN BARCELONA DRAGONS KNIGHT
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #5
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH INK #1 (OF 6)
MAR090221
FRINGE #5 (OF 6)
GOTHAM GAZETTE #1 BATMAN ALIVE
GREEN LANTERN #38 2ND PTG
GREEN LANTERN #39 2ND PTG
GREEN LANTERN #40 2ND PTG
GREEN LANTERN #41
INCOGNEGRO SC
$14.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #33
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #27
KING OF CARDS VOL 07
$9.99
LAST DAYS OF ANIMAL MAN #1 (OF 6)
ROBIN TEEN WONDER TP
$17.99
SPIRIT #28
STATIC SHOCK REBIRTH OF THE COOL TP
$19.99
SUPERMAN #688
TEEN TITANS #71
TERU TERU X SHONEN VOL 05
TRINITY #52
WILDCATS #11
WONDER WOMAN #32

DARKNESS #77
DAWN TP VOL 01 LUCIFERS HALO (NEW PTG)
$17.99
POWER UP GN
$12.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #595 DKR
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #24 DKR
AVENGERS INVADERS #11 (OF 12)
DARK REIGN ELEKTRA #3 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN HOOD #1 (OF 5) DKR
DEAD OF NIGHT TP DEVIL-SLAYER
ENDERS SHADOW BATTLE SCHOOL #5 (OF 5)
ESSENTIAL X-MEN TP VOL 09
$19.99
GHOST RIDER #35
GHOST RIDER DANNY KETCH TP ADDICT
$19.99
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #14
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #26
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #129
LORDS OF AVALON KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS #6 (OF 6)
MOON KNIGHT #30
MS MARVEL #39 DKR
NEW AVENGERS #53 DKR
NOVA #25
RUNAWAYS 3 #10
SECRET INVASION CHRONICLES #3 (OF 9)
SPIDER-MAN MAGAZINE #6
SPIDER-MAN SHORT HALLOWEEN
SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #11
STAND AMERICAN NIGHTMARES #3 (OF 5)
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #6 (OF 6)
WAR MACHINE #6
WOLVERINE #72
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #15
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #36 DKR
X-FORCE #15 XMW
X-MEN FUTURE HISTORY MESSIAH WAR SOURCEBOOK
X-MEN LEGACY #224

WIZARD MAG #213 PACHECO ULTIMATE AVENGERS CVR
DEATH DEFYING DEVIL TP VOL 01
$14.99
FALL OF CTHULHU NEMESIS #2 (OF 4)
FATHOM #7 ALE GARZA CVR
FUTURAMA COMICS #43
GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS TP VOL 02 DEAR BILLY
$12.99
GLAMOURPUSS #7
RED SONJA #44
ROBERT JORDANS NEW SPRING #6 (RES)
TALES FROM THE CRYPT #12

14th May RELEASE

2009-05-05T07:24:00.000-07:00
AMAZON #3 (OF 3)
BPRD BLACK GODDESS #5 (OF 5)
STAR WARS CLONE WARS #6 (OF 6)
UMBRELLA ACADEMY DALLAS #6 (OF 6)
ACTION COMICS #877
AZRAEL DEATHS DARK KNIGHT #3 (OF 3)
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #29
BATMAN SCARECROW AND TWO FACE YEAR ONE TP
$19.99
BOOSTER GOLD #20
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH ESCAPE #1 (OF 6)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #36
HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE TP NEW PTG
$12.99
KING OF DEBRIS VOL 01
$9.99
ORACLE #3 (OF 3)
REBELS #4
SECRET SIX #9
SHOWCASE PRESENTS MARTIAN MANHUNTER TP VOL 02
$16.99
STORMING PARADISE #5 (OF 6) (RES)
STORMWATCH PHD #21
TITANS #13
TRINITY #50
FUSION #1 (OF 3)
I KILL GIANTS TP
$15.99
IMPALER #3
JACK STAFF #20 (RES)
LILLIM #3 (OF 5)
SAVAGE DRAGON #148
ALL NEW SAVAGE SHE-HULK #2 (OF 4) DKR
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #13
DARK REIGN HAWKEYE #2 (OF 5) DKR
DARK REIGN YOUNG AVENGERS #1 (OF 5) DKR
DARK TOWER THE FALL OF GILEAD #1 (OF 6)
DEADPOOL SUICIDE KINGS #2 (OF 5)
GENEXT UNITED #1 (OF 5)
HOWLING COMMANDOS #1
INCOGNITO MUST HAVE
LOCKJAW AND THE PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4)
NEW EXILES TP VOL 04 AWAY WE GO
$12.99
PRIDE & PREJUDICE #2 (OF 5) SECRET WARRIORS #4 DKR
SPIDER-MAN J TP VOL 02 JAPANESE DAZE DIGEST
$9.99
THOR TALES OF ASGARD BY LEE & KIRBY #1 (OF 6)
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #132
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #4 (OF 6) 2ND PTG VAR (PP #864)
WAR OF KINGS ASCENSION #2 (OF 4)
WOLVERINE #66 4TH PTG WOLVERINE #69 2ND PTG MCNIVEN VAR
WOLVERINE #73
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WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #6 (OF 8)
X-FACTOR #43
X-MEN 2099 TP VOL 01
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MAN WITH NO NAME #10
NEXUS ORIGIN REMASTERED
ROBINSON CRUSOE HC
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STAR TREK MISSIONS END #3
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STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #6
SUPER-ZOMBIES #3
TMNT ADVENTURES TP VOL 01 HEROES IN A HALF SHELL
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UNKNOWN #1 (OF 4)
UNTHINKABLE #1 (OF 4)
ZORRO #13

RELEASES Thurs APRIL 30th

2009-04-26T08:55:00.000-07:00
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #10
PATH OF THE ASSASSIN TP VOL 15 BAD BLOOD PART 2
$9.95
STAR WARS LEGACY #35 STORMS PT 2 (OF 2)
BATMAN BATTLE FOR THE COWL THE UNDERGROUND #1
BATMAN GOTHAM AFTER MIDNIGHT #12 (OF 12)
FINAL CRISIS LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #4 (OF 5)
FLASH REBIRTH #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG
FRINGE #4 (OF 6) (RES)
GREEN LANTERN #40
GREEN LANTERN CHRONICLES TP VOL 01
$14.99
GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS WAR TP VOL 01
$14.99 JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #26 COVER A
MANHUNTER TP VOL 05 FORGOTTEN
$17.99
SUPERMAN #687
SUPERMAN BATMAN #59
SUPERNATURAL RISING SON TP
$14.99
TEEN TITANS #70
TRINITY #48
WONDER WOMAN #31
ASTOUNDING WOLF MAN TP VOL 02
$14.99
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #15
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #15 (RES)
SPAWN #191
WITCHBLADE #126
WITCHBLADE ANNUAL 2009 BASALDUA CVR A
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #5
AVENGERS INVADERS #10 (OF 12)
CAPTAIN AMERICA THEATER OF WAR BROTHER IN ARMS
DARK AVENGERS #4
DARK REIGN CABAL DKR
DR DOOM MASTERS OF EVIL #4 (OF 4)
ENDERS GAME BATTLE SCHOOL #5 (OF 5)
HOUSE OF M TP CIVIL WAR
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MS MARVEL #38 DKR
NEW EXILES TP VOL 03 ENEMY WITHIN
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NOVA #24
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RUNAWAYS 3 #9
SKAAR #10
SPIDER-MAN SPIDER-WOMAN TP DIGEST
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THUNDERBOLTS #130 2ND PTG DE LA TORRE VAR DKR (PP #862)
THUNDERBOLTS #131 DKR
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TP BK 02 ULTIMATE COLLECTION
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ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #5 (OF 6)
UNCANNY X-MEN #509
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WOLVERINE WEAPON X #1 2ND PTG GARNEY VAR
X-MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE #1
AIRBOY 1942 BEST ENEMIES BRYANT MODERN CVR
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SHERLOCK HOLMES #1
SIMPSONS CLASSICS #20
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GLASGOW SF

2009-04-25T04:48:00.001-07:00
An online group of SF fans from Galsfow has been set up under this wuite sensible name.

You can sign up on http://glasgowsf.ning.com/

SCITTISH SPACE LAUNCH - WELL SORT OF

2009-04-23T09:07:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the launch of a commercial satellite SICRAL 1B by the Sea Launch company. The Scottish connection is that the specially designed ship Sea Launch Commander was built in the Kavaerner shipbuilders in Glasgow. It converts on site from a normal ship to a stable, oil rig like, platform.

20 APRIL 2009 On today’s mission, a Zenit-3SL vehicle lifted off at 1:16 am PDT (08:16 GMT) from the Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned at 154 degrees West Longitude. Less than two hours later, the Block DM-SL upper stage inserted the 3,038 kg (6,697 lb) SICRAL 1B satellite into a high perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit. Telespazio’s operators at the Fucino Space Center in Italy acquired the spacecraft’s first signals from orbit during flight operations and confirmed the health of the spacecraft shortly after its separation from the Block DM upper stage. Based on preliminary data, all Sea Launch system flight parameters were nominal and injection accuracy was excellent...

“This is our 30th mission from sea -- a milestone that reflects the sustained efforts of the world's most internationally integrated launch team and demonstrates the tremendous feats that can be accomplished through global cooperation, while serving a global market. Congratulations to the Sea Launch partners, contractors and the entire team on this significant milestone and for another launch flawlessly executed.”

This is it It previously successfully delivered Intelsat's Galaxy 19 satellite to orbit on September 24, 2008, in a flawless mission. The first signal from the satellite was acquired at the Hartebeesthoek ground station immediately after spacecraft separation. Weighing 4,690 kg (10,340 lbs), this high-power C-band and Ku-band satellite will provide communications services to customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean islands.

Extensive details & pictures are available on the Sea Launch website.

J. G. BALLARD DIES

2009-04-21T02:52:00.000-07:00
"JG Ballard was one of my closest friends for 50 years. Together with Barry Bayley, who died last year, we "plotted" the revolution in science fiction which led to the so-called New Wave and he was a regular contributor to New Worlds [magazine], which spearheaded that movement. He was exceptionally brave and cheerful to the end. He was a loyal and generous friend and a great influence on the generation of writers who followed him." Michael Moorcock

The term "science fiction" has been used in many of the newspaper biographies buty not all.

RELEASES for 17th APRIL

2009-04-08T06:27:00.000-07:00
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #10
GIGANTIC #4 (OF 5)
STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS #5 (OF 6)
ACTION COMICS #876
BATMAN LOVERS AND MADMEN TP
$14.99
CASEY BLUE BEYOND TOMORROW TP
$19.99
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #19
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #35
MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE #4 (OF 6)
ORACLE #2 (OF 3)
REBELS #3
SUPERGIRL WAY OF THE WORLD TP
$17.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN #58
TINY TITANS #15
TRINITY #46
VIGILANTE #5
WORLD OF WARCRAFT #18
X-FILES #6 (OF 6)
YOUNG MAGICIAN VOL 13 (RES)
BROKEN TRINITY AFTERMATH KIRKHAM CVR A
FIREBREATHER TP VOL 02 ALL BEST HEROES ARE ORPHANS
$16.99
FRANK FRAZETTAS NEANDERTHAL FOTOS CVR B (ONE-SHOT)
JACK STAFF #20 (RES)
LILLIM #2 (OF 5)
PERHAPANAUTS TP VOL 01
$17.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #145 2ND PTG (PP #858)
WITCHBLADE ANNUAL 2009 BASALDUA CVR A
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #591
CAPTAIN AMERICA #49
DARK TOWER SORCERER #1
ENDERS SHADOW BATTLE SCHOOL #4 (OF 5)
ESSENTIAL DAZZLER TP VOL 02
$19.99
EXILES ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP BOOK 01
$34.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #11 2ND PTG LARROCA VAR
LORDS OF AVALON KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS #5 (OF 6)
MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #10
MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION #1
MOON KNIGHT #29
PUNISHER #4 DKR
RAMPAGING WOLVERINE #1
SI AFTERMATH BETA RAY BILL GREEN OF EDEN #1
SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #10
STAND AMERICAN NIGHTMARES #2 (OF 5)
SUB-MARINER COMICS 70TH ANNIV SPECIAL #1
UNCANNY X-MEN #508
WOLVERINE NOIR #1 (OF 4)
X-FACTOR #42
X-MEN LEGACY #223

RELEASES 9th APRIL

2009-04-02T05:29:00.000-07:00
BPRD BLACK GODDESS #4 (OF 5)
CLEANERS #3 (OF 4)
TRIGUN MAXIMUM TP VOL 14 MIND GAMES

BATMAN BATTLE FOR THE COWL #2 (OF 3)
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #28
GEN 13 #29
GREEN LANTERN #39 (ORIGINS)
SECRET SIX #8
SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE DOOM PATROL TP VOL 01
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SOLOMON GRUNDY #2 (OF 7)
SPIRIT #27
SUPERGIRL COSMIC ADVENTURES IN THE 8TH GRADE #5 (OF 6)
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #2 (OF 12)
TITANS #12
TRINITY #45
WARLORD #1

INFINITE HORIZON #4 (OF 6)
PERHAPANAUTS TP VOL 01
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POPGUN GN VOL 03
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SAVAGE DRAGON #145 2ND PTG (PP #858)
WITCHBLADE ANNUAL 2009 BASALDUA CVR A

AGENTS OF ATLAS #2 2ND PTG BACHALO VAR (PP #859)
ALL NEW SAVAGE SHE-HULK #1 (OF 4) DKR
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #12
DAREDEVIL NOIR #1 (OF 4)
DARK REIGN HAWKEYE #1 (OF 5) DKR
DARK TOWER GUIDE TO GILEAD
DEADPOOL SUICIDE KINGS #1 (OF 5)
EXILES #1
MARVEL APES AMAZING SPIDER-MONKEY #1
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED ODYSSEY #8 (OF 8)
MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 #1 (OF 4)
MARVEL ZOMBIES TP VOL 02
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NEW AVENGERS REUNION #1 (OF 4)
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TIMESTORM 2009 2099 #1 (OF 4)
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #4 (OF 6)
WAR OF KINGS ASCENSION #1 (OF 4)
WOLVERINE WEAPON X #1

1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURES OF SINBAD #9
ARMY OF DARKNESS #19
BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #193 (NOTE PRICE)
DEAD IRONS #3
EUREKA #4 (OF 4)
MASQUERADE #2 ALEX ROSS FOIL CVR
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TALES FROM WONDERLAND TP
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NEW US PAPERBACKS

2009-03-27T03:45:00.000-07:00
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2009-03-24T03:43:00.000-07:00
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #24
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AUTHORITY #9
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JONAH HEX #42
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JONAH HEX BULLETS DONT LIE TP
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ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #14
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HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS

2009-03-20T10:31:00.000-07:00
Best Novel (639 Ballots Cast)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)

Best Novella (337 Ballots Cast)
"The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)
"The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2008)
"The Tear" by Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
"True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
"Truth" by Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)

Best Novelette (373 Ballots Cast)
"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jan 2008)
"The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
"Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 2008)
"Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Mar 2008)

Best Short Story (448 Ballots Cast)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008)
"Article of Faith" by Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
"Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)
"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Feb 2008)

Best Related Book (263 Ballots Cast)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold by Lillian Stewart Carl & John Helfers, eds. (Baen)
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)

Best Graphic Story (212 Ballots Cast)
The Dresden Files: "Welcome to the Jungle" Written by Jim Butcher, art by Ardian Syaf (Del Rey/Dabel Brothers Publishing)
Girl Genius, Volume 8: "Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones" Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
Fables: "War and Pieces" Written by Bill Willingham, pencilled by Mark Buckingham, art by Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy, color by Lee Loughridge, letters by Todd Klein (DC/Vertigo Comics)
Schlock Mercenary: "The Body Politic" Written, art by Howard Tayler (The Tayler Corporation)
Serenity: "Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days" Written by Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad, color by Michelle Madsen, cover by Jo Chen (Dark Horse Comics)
Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: "Whys and Wherefores" Written/created by Brian K. Vaughan, pencilled/created by Pia Guerra, inked by Jose Marzan, Jr. (DC/Vertigo Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (436 Ballots Cast)
The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, story; Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, screenplay; based on characters created by Bob Kane; Christopher Nolan, director (Warner Brothers)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army Guillermo del Toro & Mike Mignola, story; Guillermo del Toro, screenplay; based on the comic by Mike Mignola; Guillermo del Toro, director (Dark Horse, Universal)
Iron Man Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, screenplay; based on characters created by Stan Lee & Don Heck & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby; Jon Favreau, director (Paramount, Marvel Studios)
METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi; Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder, writers (Audible Inc.)
WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)

2009-03-18T10:29:00.000-07:00
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Miller is eyeing up the rights to Buck Rogers for movie production.

Hmmm. Grim & gritty Buck Rogers? If Frank did it I would watch it but it doesn't seem a particularly apt fit.

RELEASES FOR MARCH 25th

2009-03-17T05:32:00.000-07:00
BERSERK TP VOL 28
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CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #9
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MARCH ON EARTH VOL 01
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ROBERT HEINLEIN'S RULES ON HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL WRITER

2009-03-15T07:00:00.000-07:00
1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4. You must put the work on the market.
5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold.

These rules appeared in the 1947 essay "On the Writing of Speculative Fiction."
We believe that they are as true today for all would-be published writers, whatever the field, as they were for writers in the golden age of science fiction magazine pulps.

The Heinlein Society.

WATCHMEN - REVIEW

2009-03-13T06:58:00.000-07:00

It was great.

It is a very faithful remake. Almost all the scenes & even dialogue are word perfect though the order, particularly of flashbacks has been changed. Also quite a lot of sub-plots have been removed This is perfectly sensible since a film, even a 2 1/2 hour film, is less complicated than a book.

Differences:

Rorschach's role is slightly toned down, particularly the sub-plot with the psychiatrist is much shortened which is one of my favourite parts, though a few seconds is added to try & make up for it. As I say some simplification is needed.

The fighting is pretty vicious which is pretty much as it should be - the Watchmen convincingly look like SAS in hand to hand combat mode, which they should be to be respected as much as they are & which is actually slightly less impressive in the book. The fighting does involve an inordinate amount of improbable damage to walls, furniture etc though the single most improbable feat is actually made more credible by Ozymandias wearing gloves.

The use of 1970s & 80s songs in couple of scenes is masterly.

For the first time I realised the nature of Dr Manhattan's Martian citadel & how it is an expression of his boyhood ambition.

The only thing that really jarred is that in the rape scene the Comedian is shown as fully adult when in the book he is about 17 (the film also changes his official age to make it fit). The fact that he tries rape & that it is forgiveable is precisely because he is a confused teen. A few years later he would be able to talk himself into her bed & indeed does. They should have used a different actor to portray the young Comedian.

The thing that has annoyed some fans is that the deux ex machina at the end is changed. Good. This is definitely the greatest weakness in the book which I have been convinced over a beer or 2 would simply fall apart under forensic examination. The film's wouldn't. It also elevates Dr Manhattan to a more tragic figure.

Just as the Watchman graphic novel (well ok then comic book) elevated superheroes we have the first truly intelligent superhero film. I love the first 2 Batman films, much of Dark Knight, the first Spider-Man movie & the 2nd X-Men but this really is quality. It has been fully faithful to the source material & in some ways improved on it which is not something easily done of Mr Moore's creations.

UPDATE I later figured out the weak point of Rorschach's treatement. When he kills the child killer in the movie it is certainly violent but it is quick. In the book it is done more slowly & the audience is given time to appreciate both how horrible it is & how it is the only sane answer - if he was brought to trial he would walk because there is no evidence. This is central to inderstanding the character & while I understand backing off from such violence I think it was, artisticaly, a mistake.

RELEASES MARCH 18TH

2009-03-11T06:40:00.000-07:00
KULL #5 (OF 6)
$2.99
STAR WARS KNIGHTS O/T OLD REPUBLIC #39 DUELING AMBITIONS PAR
$2.99

AZRAEL DEATHS DARK KNIGHT #1 (OF 3)
$2.99
BATMAN CHRONICLES TP VOL 07
$14.99
BATMAN HAUNTED GOTHAM TP
$19.99
BLACK LIGHTNING YEAR ONE #6 (OF 6)
$2.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #33 (ORIGINS) 2ND PTG
$2.99
MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE #3 (OF 6)
$2.99
OUTSIDERS #16
$2.99
STORMWATCH PHD #20
$2.99
SUPERGIRL #39
$2.99
TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT CYBORG TP
$19.99
TRANSMETROPOLITAN # 1 SPECIAL EDITION
$1.00
TRINITY #42
$2.99
VIGILANTE #4
$2.99
WORLD OF WARCRAFT #17
$2.99
X-FILES #5 (OF 6)
$3.50

** AGE OF BRONZE #28 reccommended
$3.50
AMERICAN FLAGG DEFINITIVE COLL TP VOL 02 (RES)
$19.95
INVINCIBLE #60
$3.99
PLATINUM GRIT TP VOL 01
$14.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #146
$3.50

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #588
$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EXTRA #3
$3.99
DARK AVENGERS #3 DKR
$3.99
DEADPOOL GAMES OF DEATH
$3.99
ENDERS GAME BATTLE SCHOOL #4 (OF 5)
$3.99
ETERNALS #9
$2.99
MOON KNIGHT #28
$2.99
NEW MUTANTS CLASSIC TP VOL 04
$24.99
POWERS TP VOL 12 COOLEST DEAD SUPERHEROES
$24.99
PUNISHER #3 DKR
$2.99
SPIDER-MAN NOIR #4 (OF 4)
$3.99
SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #9
$2.99
SQUADRON SUPREME TP PRE WAR YEARS
$16.99
SQUADRON SUPREME TP VOL 01 POWER TO THE PEOPLE
$16.99
THUNDERBOLTS #130 DKR
$2.99
ULTIMATE X-MEN #100
$3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #507
$2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #507 GOLDEN VAR
$2.99
WOLVERINE #71
$2.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #34 DKR
$2.99
X-FACTOR #41
$2.99
X-FORCE #13
$2.99
X-MEN FIRST CLASS TP WONDER YEARS
$19.99
X-MEN KINGBREAKER #4 (OF 4)
$3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #222
$2.99
YOUNG X-MEN #12
$2.99

COURTNEY CRUMRIN TP VOL 04 MONSTROUS HOLIDAY
$11.95
FATHOM #6 GARZA CVR
$2.99
GOLDEN AGE SHEENA QUEEN O/T JUNGLE TP 02
$18.99
HOTWIRE #2 (OF 5) BROOKS CVR C
$2.99
SHERLOCK HOLMES & KOLCHAK #1 (OF 3) CORRONEY CVR
$3.99
SIMPSONS COMICS #152
$2.99
STREET FIGHTER LEGENDS CHUN LI #2 (OF 4) CRUZ CVR B
$3.95
TRUE TALES O/T ROLLER DERBY DOPPELGANGER A/T HANGER
$4.99

PHILIP JOSE FARMER R.I.P.

2009-02-26T02:16:00.000-08:00

February 25th:
Philip José Farmer passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning.

He will be missed greatly by his wife Bette, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends and countless fans around the world.

January 26, 1918 - February 25, 2009. R.I.P.

His best known books were probably the 5 books of the Riverworld Trilogy. My favourite was Tarzan Alive - a biography of Lord Greystoke which treated the Tarzan books & most popular English language books of the 19th & early 20thC as slightly exagerated truth. His family tree of all these characters is still a joy. I am sure this was an influence on the Greystoke movie where he is only ever referred to by the title name & certainly on Moore & O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

NEW RELEASES - WEEK 4th MARCH

2009-02-24T08:37:00.000-08:00
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #23 CHEN CVR
$2.99
HELLBOY WILD HUNT #4 (OF 8)
$2.99
KULL #5 (OF 6)
$2.99

AUTHORITY #8
$2.99
BATMAN CACOPHONY #3 (OF 3)
$3.99
BLACK LIGHTNING YEAR ONE #5 (OF 6)
$2.99
FINAL CRISIS RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS #1 3RD PTG
$3.99
FRINGE #3 (OF 6) (RES)
$2.99
GOTHAM GAZETTE BATMAN DEAD #1
$2.99
JONAH HEX #41
$2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL TP VOL 01
$17.99
MIGHTY #2
$2.99
MIRRORS EDGE #5 (OF 6)
$3.99
SECRET SIX #7
$2.99
SHAZAM MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL TP
$19.99
SOLOMON GRUNDY #1 (OF 7)
$2.99
WAR THAT TIME FORGOT TP VOL 01
$17.99

BACK TO BROOKLYN #4 (OF 5)
$2.99
IMPALER #2
$2.99
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #14 (RES)
$3.50
WITCHBLADE ANNUAL 2009 BASALDUA CVR A
$3.99

AGE OF SENTRY #6 (OF 6)
$2.99
AGENTS OF ATLAS #2 DKR
$2.99
BLACK PANTHER 2 #2 DKR
$2.99
CABLE #12
$2.99
DAREDEVIL #116
$2.99
DARK REIGN FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (OF 5) DKR
$2.99
DEADPOOL #8 DKR
$2.99
HULK BROKEN WORLDS #1 (OF 2)
$3.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED KIDNAPPED #5 (OF 5)
$3.99
MARVEL YOUR UNIVERSE #2
$5.99
NEW AVENGERS REUNION #1 (OF 4) DKR
$3.99
SECRET INVASION TP NEW WARRIORS
$24.99
SECRET WARRIORS #2 DKR
$2.99
SHE-HULK TP VOL 07 HERE TODAY
$14.99
SUB-MARINER DEPTHS #5 (OF 5)
$3.99
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #3 (OF 6)
$2.99
ULTIMATUM #2 (OF 5) 2ND PTG FINCH VAR (PP #854)
$3.99
WAR OF KINGS #1 (OF 6)
$3.99
WOLVERINE BY CLAREMONT & MILLER TP Highly Recommended
$16.99
WOLVERINE TP WEAPON X NEW PTG Barry Smith - recommended
$16.99
WOLVERINE X-MEN MAGAZINE #2
$6.99
X-MEN FIRST CLASS FINALS #2 (OF 4)
$3.99
X-MEN SPIDER-MAN #4 (OF 4)

ARMY OF DARKNESS #17
$3.50
ASPEN SEASONS WINTER 2009
$2.99
CHUCKY VOL 02 #1 (OF 4) ANDY B CVR A
$3.50
CODE GEASS LELOUCH OF THE REBELLION GN VOL 03
$9.99
FARSCAPE #3 CVR A
$3.99
FATHOM #6 GARZA CVR
$2.99
FLASH GORDON #4
$3.99
I AM LEGION #2 (OF 6) CASSADAY MARTIN CVR A
$3.50
JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC #3 NEW PTG
$2.95

ANOTHER ALBACON NEXT YEAR

2009-02-23T05:18:00.000-08:00
What is Albacon?
Join us for a reunion event with friends old and new, celebrating Scottish fandom and the SF genre.

25-27 September 2010
Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport
Art & ALBACON fan history exhibits, trader’s room, silly games, guest talks, panels & discussions, a costume ceilidh and all round great fun.
Our guests will include:
Liz Williams
Peter F. Hamilton

Link HERE to join

TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2008

2009-02-20T07:42:00.000-08:00
This is the listing by sales. I can't claim they will all be in stock all the time but I have a pretty large selection. I have put an * with my top picks.

*1 WATCHMEN TP* $19.99 DC Comics

2 BATMAN KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC $17.99 DC Comics

3 JOKER HC $19.99 DC Comics

4 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 10 WHYS & WHEREFORES $14.99 DC Comics

5 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 08 MADE TO SUFFER $14.99 Image Comics

*6 BATMAN DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TP $14.99 DC Comics

7 FABLES TP VOL 10 GOOD PRINCE $17.99 DC Comics

*8 WANTED GN $19.99 Image Comics

9 BTVS SEASON 8 TP VOL 02 NO FUTURE FOR YOU $15.95 Dark Horse

10 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 01 UNMANNED $12.99 DC Comics

11 BOYS TP VOL 02 GET SOME $19.99 Dynamite Ent.

12 HULK WWH TP $24.99 Marvel Comics

13 CIVIL WAR TP $24.99 Marvel Comics

14 BTVS SEASON 8 TP VOL 01 LONG WAY HOME $15.95 Dark Horse

*15 BATMAN LONG HALLOWEEN TP $19.99 DC Comics

16 UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE TP $17.95 Dark Horse

17 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE $9.99 Image Comics

18 FABLES TP VOL 11 WAR & PIECES $17.99 DC Comics

19 FABLES TP VOL 01 LEGENDS IN EXILE $9.99 DC Comics

20 STAR WARS FORCE UNLEASHED GN $15.95 Dark Horse

21 GREEN LANTERN HC VOL 01 SINESTRO CORPS WAR $24.99 DC Comics

*22 ASTONISHING X-MEN TP VOL 04 UNSTOPPABLE $19.99 Marvel Comics

23 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 02 CYCLES $12.99 DC Comics

24 DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN PREM HC $24.99 Marvel Comics

*25 ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN BOY WONDER HC VOL 01 $24.99 DC Comics

*26 BATMAN YEAR ONE DELUXE SC $14.99 DC Comics

27 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 03 ONE SMALL STEP $12.99 DC Comics

*28 V FOR VENDETTA TP $19.99 DC Comics

29 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 07 THE CALM BEFORE $12.99 Image Comics

30 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 02 MILES BEHIND US $12.99 Image Comics

*31 INFINITE CRISIS TP $14.99 DC Comics

32 BATMAN MAN WHO LAUGHS HC $19.99 DC Comics

*33 ARKHAM ASYLUM ANNIVERSARY ED SC $17.99 DC Comics

*34 PREACHER TP VOL 01 GONE TO TEXAS NEW EDITION $14.99 DC Comics

35 MARVEL ZOMBIES ARMY OF DARKNESS HC* $19.99 Marvel Comics

36 BATMAN HUSH TP VOL 01 $12.99 DC Comics

37 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 04 SAFEWORD $12.99 DC Comics

38 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 19 DEATH O/GOBLIN $14.99 Marvel Comics

39 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL 2 PLAT. ED LEARNING CURVE TP $13.95 Marvel Comics

40 BTVS SEASON 8 TP VOL 03 WOLVES AT GATE $15.95 Dark Horse

41 GREEN LANTERN HC VOL 02 SINESTRO CORPS WAR $24.99 DC Comics

42 HULK TP PLANET HULK $34.99 Marvel Comics

43 TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL TURNER GN $8.99 Aspen

*44 SANDMAN TP VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES $19.99 DC Comics

45 WITCHBLADE TP VOL 01 WITCH HUNT $4.99 Image Comics

46 MARVEL ZOMBIES 02 HC $19.99 Marvel Comics

47 SECRET INVASION TP INFILTRATION $19.99 Marvel Comics

48 DMZ TP VOL 04 FRIENDLY FIRE $12.99 DC Comics

49 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 05 RING O/TRUTH $14.99 DC Comics

50 FABLES TP VOL 02 ANIMAL FARM $12.99 DC Comics

51 HEROES HC VOL 02* $29.99 DC Comics

52 HELLBOY TP VOL 08 DARKNESS CALLS $19.95 Dark Horse

53 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 09 MOTHERLAND $14.99 DC Comics

54 BOYS TP VOL 03 $19.99 Dynamite Ent.

55 SAVAGE SWORD O/CONAN VOL 1 TP $17.95 Dark Horse

56 DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME HC $24.99 Marvel Comics

57 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 06 GIRL ON GIRL $12.99 DC Comics

*58 BOYS TP VOL 01 $16.99 Dynamite Ent.

59 MARVEL ZOMBIES TP* $15.99 Marvel Comics

*60 SERENITY TP $9.95 Dark Horse

61 SERENITY BETTER DAYS TP $9.95 Dark Horse

62 NARUTO TP VOL 28 $7.95 VIZ

63 100 BULLETS TP VOL 12 DIRTY $12.99 DC Comics

64 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 07 PAPER DOLLS $14.99 DC Comics

*65 HELLBOY TP VOL 01 SEED OF DESTRUCTION $17.95 Dark Horse

66 ULTIMATE X-MEN TP VOL 17 SENTINELS $17.99 Marvel Comics

67 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 08 KIMONO DRAGONS $14.99 DC Comics

68 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 03 SAFETY BEHIND BARS $12.99 Image Comics

69 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 04 HEARTS DESIRE $12.99 Image Comics

70 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 06 SORROWFUL LIFE $12.99 Image Comics

71 CAPTAIN AMERICA TP VOL 01 DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA $14.99 Marvel Comics

72 BATMAN HUSH TP VOL 02 $12.99 DC Comics

73 FABLES 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL SC $14.99 DC Comics

74 WATCHMEN HC $39.99 DC Comics

*75 ALL STAR SUPERMAN TP VOL 01 $12.99 DC Comics

76 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 05 BEST DEFENSE $12.99 Image Comics

77 DEATH NOTE TP VOL 01 $7.99 VIZ

78 FABLES TP VOL 03 STORYBOOK LOVE $14.99 DC Comics

79 PRIDE OF BAGHDAD SC $12.99 DC Comics

80 SAVAGE SWORD O/CONAN TP VOL 02 $17.95 Dark Horse

*81 BATMAN DARK VICTORY TP $19.99 DC Comics

82 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 20 & HIS AMAZING FRIENDS $12.99 Marvel Comics

*83 PREACHER TP VOL 02 UNTIL END O/WORLD NEW EDITION $14.99 DC Comics

84 NARUTO TP VOL 29 $7.95 VIZ

85 JACK OF FABLES TP VOL 03 BAD PRINCE $14.99 DC Comics

86 DMZ TP VOL 05 THE HIDDEN WAR $12.99 DC Comics

87 INVINCIBLE TP VOL 09 OUT OF THIS WORLD $14.99 Image Comics

88 HEROES SC $19.99 DC Comics

89 X-MEN HC MESSIAH COMPLEX $39.99 Marvel Comics

90 ULTIMATE X-MEN TP VOL 18 APOCALYPSE $13.99 Marvel Comics

91 NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI TP $14.99 Marvel Comics

92 KINGDOM COME TP $14.99 DC Comics

*93 SUPERMAN RED SON TP $17.99 DC Comics

94 STAR WARS LEGACY TP VOL 02 SHARDS $19.95 Dark Horse

95 INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM O/T CRYSTAL SKULL TP $12.95 Dark Horse

*96 THOR BY J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI TP VOL 01 $14.99 Marvel Comics

97 JLA AVENGERS TP $19.99 DC Comics

98 NARUTO TP VOL 30 $7.95 VIZ

99 STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP VOL 01 SHIPYARDS O/DOOM $7.95 Dark Horse

100 JUSTICE TP VOL 01 $14.99 DC Comics

My favourite non-appearances there would include Alan Moore's FROM HELL, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN 1 & 2, TOP TEN, Larry Gonick's CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE (ask me how I once told him he had got a particular opinion wrong - gosh what an interllectual I are) & Eric Shanowar's AGE OF BRONZE 1,2,3, Garth Ennis's PUNISHER - WELCOME BACK FRANK, Warren Ellis' MINISTRY OF SPACE & CRECY

New Out of Print Graphics

2009-02-18T08:06:00.000-08:00
I have just receiced a collection of 2000 AS annuals - 1078, 1980-1988. Also Battle Ann 1981. Also the out of print Dark Horse Akira volumes 1-6. Also a manga ninja series by Futaro Yamada called Basilisk vols 1-4 - this is printed in reverse order like the original & should appeal to manga purists. Also Sho Fumomura's manga Sanctuary vols 1-9.

RELEASES FEB 25TH

2009-02-17T05:47:00.000-08:00
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #8
$2.99
CRIMINAL MACABRE CELL BLOCK 666 #3 (OF 4)
$2.99
FEAR AGENT #26 1 AGAINST 1 (PT 5 OF 6)
$2.99
MISTER X CONDEMNED #3 (OF 4)
$3.50
MPD PSYCHO TP VOL 08
$12.95
STAR WARS LEGACY #33 FIGHT ANOTHER DAY PART 2 OF 2
$2.99
USAGI YOJIMBO #118
$3.50

BATMAN GOTHAM AFTER MIDNIGHT #10 (OF 12)
$2.99
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #2
$2.50
GREEN LANTERN #37 (FOE) 2ND PTG
$2.99
NOV080161
GREEN LANTERN #38 (ORIGINS)
$2.99
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #24 (ORIGINS)
$2.99
PUSH #6 (OF 6)
$3.50
REIGN IN HELL #8 (OF 8)
$3.50
SGT ROCK THE LOST BATTALION #4 (OF 6)
$2.99
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN FAMILY TP VOL 03
$16.99
SUPERMAN #685 (ORIGINS)
$2.99
SUPERMAN CAMELOT FALLS TP VOL 02
$12.99
TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS TP VOL 01
$19.99
TEEN TITANS #68 (ORIGINS)
$2.99
TRINITY #39
$2.99
WAR THAT TIME FORGOT #10 (OF 12)
$2.99
WONDER WOMAN #29
$2.99
WORLD OF WARCRAFT ASHBRINGER #4 (OF 4)
$3.99

SAVAGE DRAGON #137 4TH PTG OBAMA CVR (PP #854)
$2.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #145 CVR A
$3.50
SAVAGE DRAGON #145 OBAMA CVR B
$3.50
SPAWN #189
$2.95

AVENGERS INITIATIVE #22 DKR
$2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #47
$2.99
DARK AVENGERS #1 2ND PTG VAR (PP #853)
$3.99
DARK REIGN FILES DKR
$4.99
DARK TOWER TREACHERY #6 (OF 6)
$3.99
DR DOOM MASTERS OF EVIL #2 (OF 4)
$2.99
ENDERS SHADOW BATTLE SCHOOL #3 (OF 5)
$3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #564
$2.99
GHOST RIDER DANNY KETCH #5 (OF 5)
$3.99
HULK #10
$3.99
HULK #10 ADAMS VAR (PP #852)
$3.99
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #126
$3.99
LORDS OF AVALON KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS #4 (OF 6)
$3.99
MARVELS EYE OF CAMERA #4 (OF 6)
$3.99
DEC082382
MIGHTY AVENGERS #22 DKR
$2.99
MS MARVEL #36 DKR
$2.99
NEW AVENGERS #50 DKR
$4.99
NEW AVENGERS #50 KUBERT VAR (PP #852)
$4.99
NOVA #22
$2.99
RUNAWAYS 3 #7
$2.99
SECRET INVASION TP BLACK PANTHER
$12.99
SECRET INVASION TP RUNAWAYS YOUNG AVENGERS
$12.99
SHE-HULK 2 #38
$3.99
THUNDERBOLTS #129 DKR
$2.99
DEC082343
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #131
$2.99
DEC082318
WAR MACHINE #3 DKR
$2.99
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #12
$2.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #33 DKR
$2.99
WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #2 (OF 8) 2ND PTG VAR (PP #853)
$3.99
X-FORCE #12
$2.99

ASPEN SEASONS WINTER 2009
$2.99
BART SIMPSON COMICS #46
$2.99
DAN DARE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 US ED
$29.99
EUREKA #2 (OF 4) CVR A
$3.99
GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS DEAR BILLY #2
$3.50
TERMINATOR REVOLUTION #3 (OF 5)
$3.50

SCIENCE & SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION

2009-02-16T08:41:00.000-08:00

SATELLITE 2
Glasgow, 25-26th July 2009
Guest of Honour: Iain M Banks
Following in the footsteps of Satellite 1, we are pleased to announce Satellite 2, a 2-day convention marking the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Following in the footsteps of Satellite 1, Satellite 2 is a 2-day science fiction convention featuring the usual mixture of talks, games, panel discussions, and quizzes typical of a Glasgow Convention. There will be a real ale bar, a dealers’ room, with SF bookshop At the Sign of the Dragon, and a small art show.
July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and so some of programme will have a lunar theme, ranging from discussions of how the moon is portrayed in SF, to the chance to fake your very own moon landing

Satellite 2 is extremely excited to have Iain M. Banks as our Guest of Honour. Iain needs no introduction, but for anyone not familiar with his work – Welcome to Planet Earth!
We will be updating the site regularly as our programme develops and watch out for the Adventures of Roger. Roger is our convention mascot and has been travelling far and wide to promote Satellite 2.
We look forward to seeing you next July in Glasgow!

Join Satellite 2
The following membership rates are valid until 31/12/08:
Adult Attending
£40
Child (5-14 at time of Con)
£10
Infant (0-4 at time of Con)
£1
Apocrypha (e.g. cuddly Cthulhu's etc)
£1
Supporting*
£10
(* freezes membership at the current rate for possible later upgrade to Attending)
We are a small convention, and cannot afford to take online memberships. Please print out our membership form and post to the convention address:
Satellite 2, c/o Colin Dalglish,33b Hardridge Road,Corkerhill,
website http://www.satellite2.org.uk/

RELEASES 18th FEB

2009-02-14T09:11:00.000-08:00
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF OLD REPUBLIC #38 FAITHFUL EXECUTION
$2.99

BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS THE SNARE TP
$14.99

BIRDS OF PREY #127 (ORIGINS)

BLACK LIGHTNING YEAR ONE #4 (OF 6)
$2.99

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #22
$2.99

DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 04
$19.99

GREEN LANTERN #36 2ND PTG
$2.99

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #30 (ORIGINS)
$2.99

OUTSIDERS #15 (ORIGINS)
$2.99

ROBIN #183 (ORIGINS)
$2.99

STORMWATCH PHD #19
$2.99

SUPERGIRL #38 (ORIGINS)
$2.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN #55
$2.99
SUPERMAN CHRONICLES TP VOL 06
$14.99
TANGENT SUPERMANS REIGN #12 (OF 12)
TRINITY #38
$2.99

WORLD OF WARCRAFT #16
$2.99

X-FILES #4 (OF 6)
$3.50

INVINCIBLE #59
$2.99

WITCHBLADE ANNUAL 2009 BASALDUA CVR A
$3.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #587
$2.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #4
$4.99

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION
$15.99

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION DM ED
$15.99

DARK AVENGERS #2 CHOI VAR DKR
$3.99

ESSENTIAL CLASSIC X-MEN TP VOL 03
$16.99

GHOST RIDER #32
$2.99

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #10
$2.99

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #9 2ND PTG VAR
$2.99

MOON KNIGHT #27
$2.99

NEW EXILES #18
$2.99

NYX NO WAY HOME #6 (OF 6)
$3.99

SECRET INVASION TP FRONT LINE
$14.99

SECRET INVASION TP THUNDERBOLTS
$19.99

SPIDER-MAN NOIR #3 (OF 4) CALERO VAR
$3.99

SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #8
$2.99

THUNDERBOLTS #128 2ND PTG VAR
$2.99

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2009-01-29T07:11:00.000-08:00
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50 MOST POPULAR GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR DECEMBER

2009-01-25T09:00:00.000-08:00

1 JOKER HC
2 * WATCHMEN TP
JACK OF FABLES TP VOL 04 AMERICANA (MR)
STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP VOL 02 CRASH COURSE
STAR WARS LEGACY TP VOL 04 ALLIANCE
BLEACH TP VOL 25
ASTONISHING X-MEN HC VOL 02
ULTIMATES 3 PREM HC WHO KILLED SCARLET WITCH
BATMAN JOKERS ASYLUM TP
JSA HC VOL 03 THY KINGDOM COME PART 2
SUPERMAN BATMAN VENGEANCE TP
GREEN LANTERN SECRET ORIGIN HC
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN PREM HC VOL 01
SPIRIT TP VOL 01
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL TP VOL 20 DEMONS LAIR
WALT DISNEYS CHRISTMAS PARADE #5
STAR WARS OMNIBUS RISE O/SITH
X-MEN COMPLETE ONSLAUGHT EPIC TP BOOK 04
CAMELOT 3000 HC DELUXE EDITION
TEEN TITANS ON THE CLOCK TP
WOLVERINE ORIGINS TP VOL 05 DEADPOOL
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BRAVE & BOLD BATMAN TEAMUPS VOL 03
YOUNG LIARS TP VOL 01 DAYDREAM BELIEVER (MR)
NEGIMA GN VOL 20 (MR)
RUNAWAYS TP DEAD END KIDS
BATMAN PRIVATE CASEBOOK HC
* V FOR VENDETTA TP
MIGHTY AVENGERS PREM HC VOL 03 SECRET INVASION BOOK 01
SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 02 BRAND NEW DAY
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERGIRL TP VOL 02
HULK 100 PROJECT
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CAPTAIN AMERICA TP CHOSEN
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BATTLE ANGEL ALITA LAST ORDER TP VOL 10
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BRAVE & BOLD LORDS O/LUCK TP
* DAREDEVIL BY MILLER JANSON TP VOL 02
GUARDIANS O/GALAXY PREM HC VOL 01 LEGACY
FABLES TP VOL 11 WAR & PIECES (MR)
* WATCHMEN THE ABSOLUTE EDITION HC $75.00
SPAWN BOOK O/DEAD HC TOY ED

* Classic reprintings reccomended

NEW COMICS & GRAPHICS FOR 22ND JANUARY

2009-01-19T07:33:00.000-08:00
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #7

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DC COMICS
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MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE #1 (OF 6)
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SPIRIT #25
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SUPERMAN BATMAN ANNUAL #3
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2009-01-15T08:26:00.000-08:00
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SALE - ESSENTIALs

2009-01-14T08:10:00.000-08:00
I have put up the following titles from Marvels ESSENTIALS series - telephone book sized reprints of early Marvels in black & white. These were very good value at the original prices (about £15 each) but I wish to clear up some space so I am shifting them at £6 each. Also selling off my last ACTION FIGURES at the same.

CAPTAIN AMERICA VOLS 3,4
DAREDEVIL 1,2,3
DR STRANGE 1,2
DRACULA 1,2,3
FANTASTIC FOUR #4
GHOST RIDER 1
HULK 2
IRON FIST 1
IRON MAN 2
KILLRAVEN
MARVEL HORROE
MARVEL TEASM UP 2
MARVEL TWO IN ONE 2
MARVEL UNIVERSE 1
MOON KNIGHT 1
PUNISHER 2
SHE-HULK 1
PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN 3
SPIDER-MAN 3,7,8
WOLVERINE 1,4
X-MEN 1,2,3,4,6

NEW US PAPERBACKS

2009-01-11T08:30:00.000-08:00
Here is a listing of new US paperbacks received today:

Drake --- The Mirror of worlds
Odom -- Seaspray
Taylor --- One Day on Mars
Heinlein --- For Us the living
McDevitt --- Cauldron
Longknife --- Intrepid
Hunter --- Bloodring
Douglas --- Galactic Corps
Acevedo --- The Undead - Kama sutra
Richards --- Dark Rain
Kenyon --- One Silent Night
Jarpe --- Radio Freefall
Briggs --- Cry Wolf
Scalzi --- The Last Colony
Caine --- Gale force
Joe Haldeman --- The Accidental time Machine
Campbell --- The Lost Fleet
Stross --- Halting State
Ringo --- Yellow Eyes
Harris --- Dead Un Till Dark
" Club Dead
" Dead to the World
" Altogether Dead
" Dead as a Doornail
" Definitely Dead
" Living Dead in Dallas
S.M. Stirling --- Sunrise Lands
Williams --- Star Wars - the Fleet Unleashed
Salvatore --- Forgotten Realms - The Orc King
R.R. Martin --- Inside Straight
Johnson --- V - The 2nd Generation
Salvatore --- The Ancient
Asaro --- The Ruby Dice
Van Name --- Transhuman
Hunter --- Seraphs
Turtledove --- Opening Atlantis
Butcher --- Captain's Fury
Niven --- Fleet of worlds
Acqirre --- Wanderlust
Martinez --- A Nameless witch
Czerneda --- Reap the Wild Wind
Durham --- Acacia

LARGEST SELECTION OF GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS & SF PAPERBACKS NORTH OF BIRMINGHAM

2009-01-09T08:51:00.000-08:00
I have just done a post Christmas restock of Alan Moore titles. I had sold out of WATCHMEN, COMPLETE D.R. & QUINCH, PROMETHEA VOL 2, TOP TEN VOL 2, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINRY GENTLEMEN I & ii, SWAMP THING 1 & 2, TOM STRONG VOL 1, FROM HELL & v FOR VENDETTA, almost all his other titles are still in stock.

If you are looking for something, would like to see me stocking something new or can think of somewhere north of Birmingham which does something better than I, contact me on crgn143@aol.com or ring 0141-331-7785

DR WHO COLLECTION

2008-11-17T09:51:00.000-08:00

Just to say that I have just got in a substantial collection of Dr Who paperbacks, hardbacks, Weeklies/Monthlies related books & annuals right back to the 1960s. I will be pricing them up & putting them online shortly shortly but have decided to tell youse.

New US Science Fiction Paperbacks arrived today:

2008-04-04T07:34:00.000-07:00
Alliance Space: Merchanter's Luck/40,000 - Cherryh, C. J.
Antagonist - Dickson, Gordon R.
Death's Head - Gunn, David
Echoes of an Alien Sky - Hogan, James P.
Elysium Commission - Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
Emissaries from the Dead - Castro, Adam-Troy
Final Inquiries - Allen, Roger MacBride
Goetia - Odom, Mel
Grimspace - Aguirre, Ann
Harp, Pipe, & Symphony - Di Filippo, Paul
Jumper - Gould, Steven
Maelstrom - McCaffrey, Anne
Marseguro - Willett, Edward
Octagonal Raven - Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
Outback Stars - McDonald, Sandra
Provenance - Archer, Alex
Quantico - Bear, Greg
Rollback - Sawyer, Robert J.
To Ride the Chimeraa - Killiany, Kevin
Whitechapel Gods - Peters, S. M.
Worlds on Fire - Costello, Matthew

You can email me to reserve any you want
I have improved my volume discout so now if you get 7 new books 2 of them are free, or 4 from 12

2008-03-27T06:57:00.000-07:00
I have just received a small order of the latest Executioner titles - Firestorm & Carnage Code - plus Deathlands : desert Kings & Outlanders: Dark Goddess

MARK MILLAR

2008-03-25T04:13:00.000-07:00
I noticed I got this reference from Mark Millar some time ago
killed time by spending the equivalent of 60 bucks in Futureshock on books I'd never seen before. I just eat them up and it's still, by far, the medium I'm most comfortable in. The autonomy of comics is still hard to beat.

IMPROVED DISCOUNT

2008-03-13T06:21:00.000-07:00

With new US books coming in & no shortage of stock (!) I have decided to extend the paperback discount scheme for the immediate future. Previously I have given 2 free 2nd hand books out of every 7 taken or 4 out of 12 or 1 new free out of 7 & 2 free out of 12.
I am now extending the discount on new books to match that on 2nd hand ones.
My discount schedule now reads:
1 GRAPHIC NOVEL HALF PRICE FOR 4 PURCHASED
1 GRAPHIC NOVEL FREE OUT OF 7 PURCHASED
__________________
NEW & 2ND HAND PAPERBACKS
BUY 7 - GET 2 FREE
BUY 12 - GET 4 FREE
_________________
BACK ISSUE COMICS
BUY 7 OR MORE & SAVE 50P ON EACH
BUY 20 OR MORE & SAVE £1 ON EACH
BUY 50 OR MORE & SAVE £1.20 ON EACH
Minimum is 30p for any comic, free books will be taken from the lowest priced ones.

NEW

2008-03-12T04:43:00.000-07:00
US Paperbacks
Alliance Space: Merchanter's Luck/40,000 - Cherryh, C. J.
Antagonist - Dickson, Gordon R.
Death's Head - Gunn, David
Echoes of an Alien Sky - Hogan, James P.
Elysium Commission - Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
Emissaries from the Dead - Castro, Adam-Troy
Final Inquiries - Allen, Roger MacBride
Goetia - Odom, Mel
Grimspace - Aguirre, Ann
Harp, Pipe, & Symphony - Di Filippo, Paul
Jumper - Gould, Steven
Maelstrom - McCaffrey, Anne
Marseguro - Willett, Edward
Octagonal Raven - Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
Outback Stars - McDonald, Sandra
Planet of the Damned - Harrison, Harry
Provenance - Archer, Alex
Quantico - Bear, Greg
Rollback - Sawyer, Robert J.
To Ride the Chimeraa - Killiany, Kevin
Whitechapel Gods - Peters, S. M.
Worlds on Fire - Costello, Matthew

Also have got Absolute Sandman vol 1 back in (£65\) of which first 7 so far only printings are running low

2nd hand - An as new slipcase edition of 2 books of Atlas of Middle earth

WHAT SUPERHERO ARE YOU?

2006-03-22T10:02:00.000-08:00
Try this out for a bit of silliness:

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HYPERSPACE DRIVE

2006-01-09T05:14:00.000-08:00
This is really off the wall & while I wouldn't hold my breath. However it is clear that some serious USAF investment is available.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea and scientists working for the American Department of Energy - which has a device known as the Z Machine that could generate the kind of magnetic fields required to drive the engine - say they may carry out a test if the theory withstands further scrutiny.

Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists who put forward the idea, told The Scotsman that if everything went well a working engine could be tested in about five years.

However, Prof Hauser, a physicist at the Applied Sciences University in Salzgitter, Germany, and a former chief of aerodynamics at the European Space Agency, cautioned it was based on a highly controversial theory that would require a significant change in the current understanding of the laws of physics.

"It would be amazing. I have been working on propulsion systems for quite a while and it would be the most amazing thing. The benefits would be almost unlimited," he said.

"But this thing is not around the corner; we first have to prove the basic science is correct and there are quite a few physicists who have a different opinion.

"It's our job to prove we are right and we are working on that."

He said the engine would enable spaceships to travel to different solar systems. "If the theory is correct then this is not science fiction, it is science fact," Prof Hauser said.

"NASA have contacted me and next week I'm going to see someone from the [US] air force to talk about it further, but it is at a very early stage. I think the best-case scenario would be within the next five years [to build a test device] if the technology works."

The US authorities' attention was attracted after Prof Hauser and an Austrian colleague, Walter Droscher, wrote a paper called "Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory".

>
A personal niggle - every time something new comes up somebody says "this is no longer science fiction" & then next time the media glitterati are once again surprised - they should try reading some & not keep getting caught by surprise.

STATE OF FEAR - MICHAEL CRICHTON

2005-12-14T07:26:00.000-08:00
I have just finished reading this book.

I liked it a lot but you have to appreciate non-luddite politics to appreciate it. He has quite deliberately written a dissection of the whole global warming case with a bit of plot thrown in & I have to say the plot, trying to stop some eco-terrorists faking a series of environmental disasters to prove that global warming is happening, doesn't really work. Apart from anything else you don't need to fake disasters - the media will do it for you anyway (as per Penny Marshall's "accidental" faking of a concentration camp video in Bosnia.

Crichton should read Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - this was the book that vindicated Richard III of killing the princes in the Tower. I now think that Richard probably did it but was persuaded at the time - it is clear the princes WERE known to be missing at the time, tho' even then Henry VII's behaviour is suspicious.

In any case she managed to keep almost any trace of plot out of the book by breaking the protagonist's leg thus forcing him to stick to detective work on paper & thus unfolding the whole pro-Richard case. Chrichton could have done something similar.

Nonetheless his case that global warming doesn't exist & in particular that records in cities which haven't grown in the last century have demonstrated little or zero warming & sometimes cooling in the last century is persuasive.

HELLO THERE

2005-12-11T06:55:00.000-08:00
This is to say that I now have a phone in the shop
FUTURESHOCK 0141 353 3975
& have net access here now. This means that I will be adding stuff on this site
futureshockbks.blogspot.com
fairly regularly.

I will also be able to let you know within a few minutes if something special you ordered comes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL & TO ALL A GOODNIGHT.

NEW US PAPERBACKS

2005-08-12T12:39:00.001-07:00
TITLE AUTHOR ISBN
THE HERO RINGO 1-4165-09143
WITCHES OF KARRES SCHMITZ 0-4165-0915-1
CURSE OF CHALSON BUJOLD 0-380-818604
PALADIN OF SOULS BUJOLD 0-380-818612
IN CONQUEST BORN FRIEDMAN ?
THE WILDING " 0-7564-0202-6
REFLEX GOULD 0-812-57854-6
DARK ASCENT HUNT 0-765-34982-5
BROTHERS PRICE SPENCER 0-451-46038-3
NYLON ANGEL DE PIERRES 0-451-46037-5
BONEBREAKER 0-765-34429-7
AIRBORN OPPEL 006-053182-7
TROLL FAIL LANGRISH 0-06-058306-1
ORACLE BETRAYED FISHER 006-057159-4
FORGE OF HEAVEN CHERRYH 0-380-82023-4
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT DEAD HARRISON 0-06-057299-X
YEARS BEST FANTASY HARTWELL 0-06-077605-6
SUPERNATURALIST COLPER PROPHECY OF STONES BUJOR
ARCANUM WHEELER
FIRETHORN MICKLEM
SCARDOWN BEAR
BRIGHT SPOT SYDNEY
LAST GUARDIAN OF EVERNESS WRIGHT 0-812-57987-9
THE KNIGHT WOLFE 0-765-34701-6
WELLSPRING OF CHAOS MODESITT
KING OF FOXES
RINGWORLDS CHILDREN NIVEN
CROWN OF SLAVES WEBER
SAINT VIDICAN TO THE RESCUE STASHEFF
THE DARE KEARNEY 0-765-35192-7
FLASH MODESITT 0-765-34992-2
FIREBIRD'S VENGEANCE ZETTEL 0-765-34726-1
SILENT HOUSE GREENWOOD 0-76534726-1
ABSOLUTION GAP REYNOLDS 0-441-01291-4
BRILLIANCE ON THE MOON HEARN
ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE "
GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW "
GULLIVER ZONE BAXTER 0765-34941-8
STEEL MAGIC NORTON 0765-35297-4
SMOKE & MIRRORS HUFF 07564-0263-8
CHANGER OF DAYS ALEXANDER 006-0765755
YEARS BEST SF 10 HARTWELL 006-057551-1
ILLIUM SIMMONS 0380-817926
BLOOD OF WOLVES COLEMAN 0441-01292-2
CIMMERIAN RAGE "
SONGS OF VICTORY "
A FLAME IN HALI BRADLEY 07654-0267-0
FALL OF NESKAYA " 07564-0053-8
ZANDRUS FORGE " 07564-0184-4
TOWER OF RAVENS FORSYTH 0451-460324
TEARS OF THE FURIES GOLDEN 0441-01293-0
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE DEAD KIM HARRISON
PATH OF THE FURY WEBER
FACE OF APOLLO SABERHAGEN
SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT HAMILTON
OUTLANDERS - EVIL ABYSS AXLER

NEW US PAPERBACKS

2005-08-12T12:39:00.000-07:00
TITLE AUTHOR ISBN
THE HERO RINGO 1-4165-09143
WITCHES OF KARRES SCHMITZ 0-4165-0915-1
CURSE OF CHALSON BUJOLD 0-380-818604
PALADIN OF SOULS BUJOLD 0-380-818612
IN CONQUEST BORN FRIEDMAN ?
THE WILDING " 0-7564-0202-6
REFLEX GOULD 0-812-57854-6
DARK ASCENT HUNT 0-765-34982-5
BROTHERS PRICE SPENCER 0-451-46038-3
NYLON ANGEL DE PIERRES 0-451-46037-5
BONEBREAKER 0-765-34429-7
AIRBORN OPPEL 006-053182-7
TROLL FAIL LANGRISH 0-06-058306-1
ORACLE BETRAYED FISHER 006-057159-4
FORGE OF HEAVEN CHERRYH 0-380-82023-4
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT DEAD HARRISON 0-06-057299-X
YEARS BEST FANTASY HARTWELL 0-06-077605-6
SUPERNATURALIST COLPER PROPHECY OF STONES BUJOR
ARCANUM WHEELER
FIRETHORN MICKLEM
SCARDOWN BEAR
BRIGHT SPOT SYDNEY
LAST GUARDIAN OF EVERNESS WRIGHT 0-812-57987-9
THE KNIGHT WOLFE 0-765-34701-6
WELLSPRING OF CHAOS MODESITT
KING OF FOXES
RINGWORLDS CHILDREN NIVEN
CROWN OF SLAVES WEBER
SAINT VIDICAN TO THE RESCUE STASHEFF
THE DARE KEARNEY 0-765-35192-7
FLASH MODESITT 0-765-34992-2
FIREBIRD'S VENGEANCE ZETTEL 0-765-34726-1
SILENT HOUSE GREENWOOD 0-76534726-1
ABSOLUTION GAP REYNOLDS 0-441-01291-4
BRILLIANCE ON THE MOON HEARN
ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE "
GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW "
GULLIVER ZONE BAXTER 0765-34941-8
STEEL MAGIC NORTON 0765-35297-4
SMOKE & MIRRORS HUFF 07564-0263-8
CHANGER OF DAYS ALEXANDER 006-0765755
YEARS BEST SF 10 HARTWELL 006-057551-1
ILLIUM SIMMONS 0380-817926
BLOOD OF WOLVES COLEMAN 0441-01292-2
CIMMERIAN RAGE "
SONGS OF VICTORY "
A FLAME IN HALI BRADLEY 07654-0267-0
FALL OF NESKAYA " 07564-0053-8
ZANDRUS FORGE " 07564-0184-4
TOWER OF RAVENS FORSYTH 0451-460324
TEARS OF THE FURIES GOLDEN 0441-01293-0
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE DEAD KIM HARRISON
PATH OF THE FURY WEBER
FACE OF APOLLO SABERHAGEN
SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT HAMILTON
OUTLANDERS - EVIL ABYSS AXLER

GLASGOW'S WORLDCON

2005-08-11T15:52:00.000-07:00
Last week saw the 2005 Worldcon held in Glasgow, Scotland. About 4,000 people half with American accents. As such things go it was pretty well organised with a lot of varied programming, of which I attended the science/politics bits (see under), virtually all of which went to time tho' some items were to small to let in all the potential audience (a small crowded hall always gives a better atmosphere than a big empty one).

Masquerade was a bit of a disappointment. Glasgow cons used to be very well known for swordfights. Various boys & girls would come on & do an enthusiastic & spectacular display of clanging swords from Marion Zimmer Bradley or John Norman. Fortunately our noble political leaders have produced the Health & Safety Executive to keep everybody safe. Ah well.

The Hugos went to time even with the presence of an alternate universe Frenchman
to represent the founder Victor Hugo. Winners were:

• Best Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Two other awards were also presented during the Worldcon ceremony:• John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo Award): Elizabeth Bear.• Special Interaction Committee Award (not a Hugo Award): David Pringle.

Items I attended included a panel (Thurs) on how the rest of the world (well actually the English speaking world) is following the lead of Hugo voters by adopting proportional representation, slightly weakened by the fact that there are lots of other proportional systems which were not discussed.

Friday had a panel on whether space would inevitably be the scene of military conflict in which the general opinion was No because space is so really big that resources are virtually infinite (a fair point but I think optomistic). On Saturday there was a panel on Europe in which it turned out, by show of hands, the audience was overwhelmingly europhile.

Sunday had an interesting panel on comics involving a discussion on censorship. You can show demons destroying cities but you can't have the heroine kiss the teenage hero afterwards & Robocop can only use a stun gun! One creator said he thought comics were going to die (kids play computers) tho' graphic novels would survive (I think this is pessimistic but has a point).

Sunday's biggie was on a panel by people described as "rocket scientists" though they explained they were actually rocket engineers - rocket scientists are the ones who see what happens when you put fuels together, or even when you store them for a while. In answer to a question "when can we get transport to orbit at $100/LB or $10/LB or $1/LB" the answer was anytime we want it enough to pay for the development at ANY of these prices. These guys are the experts & if they say that then you can bank it. That is the sort of price that makes space as cheap as Australia.

3 downsides (1) Antarctica is a more similar environment & it hasn't been developed, tho' this may be politics as much as anything (2) the first X-prize has been badly designed - Rutan's Spaceship One is not a route to orbit - it would have been better to have given a prize to the first reusable ship of any size "putting a baseball bat in orbit" & then scaling up (but then there is no limit to the possibility of X-Prizes) (3) Government regulation: US rules on technology transfer don't have much effect on information (these guys all talk to each other) but does on hardware & selling a sub-orbital for intercontinental executive travel would reclassify it as a aircraft & add a zero to the cost.

As regards space elevators currently they are 50 years away but in 10 years may be only 25, in which case in 2020 starting engineering on them will probably look like a good investment".

Or to quote the media whenever something new happens "it isn't just science fiction any longer"

NEW BOOKS IN MID ATLANTIC

2005-07-28T14:31:00.000-07:00
ISBN/TC TITLE
044661663X AUTUMN CASTLE
0441012183 DEAD TO THE WORLD ACE MASS MAR
0786014466 VENGEANCE IS MINE
0441012922 AGE OF CONAN HYBORIAN #01 AGE
0060765755 CHANGER OF DAYS
0765346494 DESTRUCTION OF THE BKS
078693770X TSR N-DL TALES LOVE & WAR
0765348381 EARTH LOGIC
0786937394 EBERRON CRIMSON TALISMAN
1416504559 CHRONICLES OF KINGS TRAMP BK02
0765348217 FAMILY TRADE
0786937688 TSR N-FR ELMINSTERS DAUGHTER
0786938080 TSR N-FR YEAR OF ROGUE DRAGONS
0553586742 FREEDOMS APPRENTICE
0756402859 GATEWAYS
037380220X GOSSAMYR
0553587080 HAUNTED
0756402905 HEARTWOOD
0060765704 HIDDEN QUEEN
045146026X JAGUAR & THE WOLF
0441012744 LIGHT AGES
0743499050 MAD MAUDLIN
0756402840 MAIDEN MATRON & CRONE
0765345455 NEW SPRING
0380818612 PALADIN OF SOULS
0373802226 SILVERS BANE
0743449134 SIR APROPOS OF NOTHING TONG LA
044101223X SWORD OF THE WHITE ROSE ACE MA
0441012930 TEARS OF THE FURIES
0743499093 THIS ROUGH MAGIC
0451460324 TOWER OF RAVENS 01 RHIANNONS R
0765348675 HYTHRUN CHRONICLES BK02 TREASO
0441012876 UNHANDSOME PRINCE ACE MASS MAR
0373802234 URBAN SHAMAN
0765342782 WAYFARER REDEMPTION BK04 SINNE
0451459741 WHISPERING NICKEL IDOLS
0312937725 HUNTED
1844161722 SUFFER THE CHILDREN
0373625804 DEATHLANDS #70 VENGEANCE TRAIL
0373643187 EXECUTIONER 318 CODE OF R -OSI
0373643195 EXECUTIONER 319 ENTRY POINT
0373615051 SUPERBOLAN 102 LETHAL TRI -OSI
0441012914 ABSOLUTION GAP
1416504427 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA -OS N/D
0441012124 CHILD GODDESS
0765346036 CRUCIBLE
0743499042 ENCHANTER COMPLETED
0451460332 END IN FIRE
0553587986 FINDERS KEEPERS
0756402670 FLAME IN HALI
0743499115 GODS & ANDROIDS
0446611034 HEAVEN
0446610593 SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS BK03 HORIZO
076534114X HOUSE OF REEDS
0743499107 LOGIC NAMED JOE
0345461274 LOST & FOUND
0441006353 LUCASFILMS ALIEN CHRONICLES BK
0451460340 MECH WARRIOR DARK AGE #16 MECH
0441012728 MEET THE THRADONS
1416504494 MEGA WAR OF THE WORLDS
1844161889 NECROMUNDA SURVIVAL INSTINCT
1844161897 NECROMUNDA SALVATION
0373638469 OUTLANDERS #33 CHILDREN OF THE
0743499069 PLAGUE OF DEMONS
141650403 SCORPIO V02 SCORPIO VOLUME 2
0765350483 SKINNER
0756402611 SPECIES IMPERATIVE #01 SURVIVA
0446612022 THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS
055358717X TO CRUSH THE MOON
0345457137 WEAPONS OF CHOICE
0060575611 YEARS BEST SF #10
0060506768 ANCIENT LEGACY
1416504109 BLIND ARCHER
0765350041 BRIGHT SWORD OF IRELAND
076534159X BURIED PYRAMID
0765344238 EMERALD MAGIC
1416504001 FANTASY
0786935723 TSR N-FR SILVERFALL
0786935812 RITE
0765347083 GLASS DRAGONS
0060572973 GOOD THE BAD & THE UNDEAD -OS
0373802153 GUARDIAN OF HONOR
0441012094 IN THE KINGS SERVICE
0756402816 RENAISSANCE FAIRE
0345443594 SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT
045146009X SISTER OF THE DEAD
0451460170 SOUL WEAVER
0441012574 13 PHANTASMS & OTHER STORIES
0743498895 THIS SCEPTERD ISLE
0451460103 WEATHER WARDEN BK03 CHILL FACT
0786016469 HOT BLOOD DEADLY AFTER DARK
0373632533 DESTROYER 138 NO CONTEST -OSI
0373638450 OUTLANDERS #32 EVIL ABYSS
0743498763 ANGUISHED DAWN -OS N/D
0812579909 SILENT WAR
0451459660 DEATHSTALKER RETURN
074349895X FORGE OF THE TITANS
0446611530 FURIOUS GULF
0446611530 FURIOUS GULF
0441012698 GEODESICA
0553587501 HAMMERED
0441012361 HAYDN OF MARS
0441010792 HUMAN RESOURCE ACE MASS MARKET
0765347490 KILLING OF WORLDS
0451460162 MECH WARRIOR DARK AGE #14 TARG
0765340593 MOONRISE
0345479211 PANDORAS STAR
1416504044 SCI FIC BEST OF 2004 -OSI
076534677X STAR DRAGON
0345406362 WOLF IN NIGHT

STRANGER THAN FICTION

2005-05-05T11:40:00.000-07:00
I'm sure you have all noticed how comics tend to have silly give away names. After all what sort of city fathers decided to name their city Bludhaven (wonder what the tourist board said of that). Or all those groups of supervillians like the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Or the Kryptonian survivors who chatted up Supergirl & all the readers twigged that with names like E Vil they were leading the poor lass on.

Life imitates art. Here is a rather sorry story from backwoods Montana about a kid expelled from school for having a gun. The kid was attending Hellgate Elementary School. Bet that looks good on the CV.

WANTS LISTS

2005-04-20T14:37:00.000-07:00
I have a bit over 20,000 back issue comics in the shop. If you have a list of comics you are looking for send me an email to
crgn143@aol.com
& I'll see which ones I have & give you a price + P&P.

Neil Craig

CONTINUING CORRESPONDENCE IN THE SCOTSMAN ON COMICS

2005-04-17T03:37:00.000-07:00
ON SATURDAY 16TH There is also a serious point here about the failure of today's schools to teach kids to read.

Comics as teaching aid

Kevin Schofield (12 April) was right on track regarding the value of comics as an aid to fluent reading. As a schoolboy during the war I was able to order from the local newsagent a copy of the Wizard, freed up as the subscriber had been called up. At 2d for the strictly rationed fortnightly issue, it was a sound investment, as careful trading in the playground meant one could read the Adventure, Hotspur and Rover without further investment.

Along with the majority of my peers I was, at 11 or 12, able to read aloud fluently thanks largely to the standard Scottish use of the phonetic tuition system (now being hailed as a recent breakthrough) and to the invaluable contribution of DC Thomson.

BILLY STEEL
St Inan’s Drive
Beith, Ayrshire

COMICS DON'T ROT YOUR BRAIN - IT'S OFFICIAL

2005-04-14T00:43:00.000-07:00
From the Scotsman
Research finds a Dandy way to help young boys improve literacy

KEVIN SCHOFIELD
EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT

TRADITIONAL comics such as the Beano and the Dandy could be the key to encouraging more young boys to read, according to a new survey.

Research published yesterday revealed that while 17 per cent of boys aged between seven and 11 do not read books outside school, 60 per cent regularly read comics.

The survey also revealed that just 5 per cent of boys read for more than an hour a day in their spare time, compared to 17 per cent of girls.

Last night, experts said that encouraging youngsters to read comics could be a vital tool in the fight to improve literacy rates.

Dr Karen McGavock, an expert in children’s literature at Stirling University, said comics had "a wealth of things to offer" young people.

She said: "It is important to expose young people to a variety of different literature, including comics and other, more established, works of fiction.

"Too often comics are seen as a low form of fiction, but that is not the case and so we should be encouraging children to read no matter what the particular format."

The survey, which sought the views of children and parents, was carried out on behalf of the Beano and the Dandy by the research specialists BMRB Access.

It found that 13 per cent of boys fail to read at all during their leisure time, but that 76 per cent spend more than an hour a day watching television.

Ben Gray, of DC Thomson, the publishers of the Beano and the Dandy, said comics had a part to play in encouraging more young people to read.

He said: "Comics should be seen as a stepping stone to get children to enjoy reading in their spare time."
&
I was pleased, but not surprised, to read that research in Scotland has confirmed that comic book reading is a good idea (your report, 12 April). We have come to the same conclusion in the United States.

Joanne Ujiie and I published a study a few years ago showing that boys aged ten to 14 who were heavy comic book readers liked reading more, read more in general, and read more books than lighter comic book readers, who, in turn, read more than non-comic book readers.

(PROF EMER) STEPHEN KRASHEN
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
California, USA

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Mind you a depressingly small proportion of my customers are kids. Most kids are sitting on the couch rotting their brains with computer games - or am I just an old fogey?

NEW US BOOK DELIVERY TODAY

2005-04-13T13:45:00.000-07:00
I got these new titles in today:
ANCIENT LEGACY
BLIND ARCHER
BRIGHT SWORD OF IRELAND
BURIED PYRAMID
EMERALD MAGIC
FANTASY
F.R. EXTINCTION
F.R. THE RITE
GLASS DRAGONS
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UNDEAD
GUARDIAN OF HONOR
IN THE KINGS SERVICE
LAIR OF BONES
MIDNIGHT HARVEST
SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT
SISTER OF THE DEAD
SOUL WEAVER
THIRTEEM PHANTASMS & ORS
SCEPTR'D ISLE
CHILL FACTOR
DEADLY AFTER DARK
DESTROYER 138
OUTLANDERS 32
ANGUISHED DAWN
THE SILENT WAR
DEATHSTALKER RETURN
FORGE OF THE TITANS
FURIOUS GULF
GARDENS OF THE MOON
GEODESICA ASCENT
HAMMERED
HAYDN OF MARS
HUMAN RESOURCES
KILLING OF WORLDS
MECH WARRIOR TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY
MOONRISE
PANDORA'S BOX
SCIENCE FICTION
STAR DRAGON
STORYTELLER
WOLF IN NIGHT

MINISTRY OF SPACE - Warren Ellis (8.99)

2005-04-12T00:56:00.000-07:00
This isn't so much a story as a delineation of an alternate history. At the end of WW2 Britain went into space & half a century later we have all those things (solar power satellites, wealth, settlements on Mars, peace on Earth under the benevolent protection of ERII) which we were promised by Dan Dare, Robert Heinlein & Gerald O'Neill. The way we get it isn't very nice (tho' not as nasty as the real world where we got Nigerian oil by helping starve Biafra) & the hero Sir John Dashwood is an out & out bastard & unapologetic about it.

The homages to Dan Dare are numerous & worth it on there own - I love the full page devoted to 2 boys with helicopter backpacks flying above a monorail & past Parliament.

There are faults. The last 2 panels are clearly in to avoid PC controversy & are against the whole spirit of the show. There is a reference to artificial gravity on the space station which is there only to allow the characters to walk rather than float, indeed Ellis, instead of having Sir John retire in England & travel to orbit for the denouement should have had him living in orbit & travel to Earth. But who cares.

This is a wonderful book in the original sense of evoking a sense of wonder about how the world we were promised in the age when Man going to the Moon was still an achievement for the future not the past.

TEDDY BEAR'S RAVE UP

2005-01-11T11:48:00.000-08:00
For music fans this bit of silliness deserves to be widely known:

Teddy Bears Rave Up

If you go down in the woods today you better go in disguise.
If you go down in the woods today you're sure of a big surprise.
'Cos every bear that ever there was is gathered there for certain because
today's the day the Teddy Bears have their Rave Up.

There's Angel Bears who've come on their bikes dressed up in their leather gear.
There's gallons of Scrumpy all green with lumps and 'orrible Watney's beer.
Yogi downed a pint of it quick, was very promptly 'orribly sick
and filled up both of Paddington's brand new wellies

Rave Up time for Teddy Bears.
The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.
Grooving to those heavy sounds
that only Status Quo know how to play.
Cresta Bear is freaking out.
He's frothing Man, he's blown his little brain.
Rupert's spaced, he's on a trip. Winnie the Pooh is doing the strip.
They reckon he's on The Game.

Now every bear that's ever been good is sure of a treat today,
for Mummy and Daddy and Baby bear have found a new game to play.
Beneath the leaves where nobody sees there's Goldilocks tied down on her knees
You bet your life she's getting more than porridge.

So if you go down in the woods today you better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home.
'Cos it's a really kinky scene, a big butch bear is playing the Queen
and they don't call him Sugar Puff for nothing.

Rave Up time for Teddy Bears.
The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.
Groping in the undergrowth,
Oh what would Enid Blyton have to say?
See them gaily stagger round, collapsing on the ground,
they haven't got any cares.
At 12 o'clock the coppers are coming to take them all away,
'cos they've been naughty little Teady Bears

ANOTHER LOCAL WRITER

2004-12-18T16:34:00.000-08:00
The forthcoming issue of the MARVEL UNIVERSE HANDBOOK 2005 is written by, among others, Stuart Vandal.

From the early 80s when Stuart & his brother Cal were young (as indeed was I) & living in Ayr they got their comics from Futureshock.

The brothers were also later involved in running Babylon 5 cons here & down south.

I have no doubt Stuart will do a very capable job on the handbook. I remember on one occasion Marvel produced a poster of what was supposed to be all the mutants in the Marvel Universe (including guys who were in GO Joe once). They checked it over & found 3 characters Marvel didn't know about!

Cheers Stuart!

A Place to Stand

2004-11-30T16:03:00.000-08:00
A Place to Stand
GHAOS MANOR/Jerry Pournelle