Long ago I edited a comics fanzine called FA. In 1988 a few of us got round a table with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for a long discussion about Watchmen. Last month someone put it on the web, and it still looks a pretty good piece to me. Don’t[…]

I wrote a recommendation of the ten best of Marvel’s Essential volumes a long time ago. Finally DC picked up the baton and are putting out similar volumes – over 500 B&W pages of vintage comic reprints on cheap paper for around £11 […]

In the pub last night the subject of SLAINE came up. Or more specifically, “Is Slaine still going and if so, how in Gods name?”.
 (What’s that? Oh, OK. A comic strip in 2000AD, m’lud, about a barbarian with a big axe.)
A litt[…]

The latest issue of 2000AD – Prog 1496 – is something of a milestone. The comic rumbles on as per usual, marking time before another landmark prog (and to be fair, 1500 issues is pretty amazing for a British comic in the current market) w[…]

Good question huh? Would you leave an oversized, over-powered infant in charge of a super-powered robot? Indeed the question is begged why would he want to operate said robot in the first place when his prime directive is to SMASH!
Answer. To sell to[…]

This is a selection of the Funny Folk cartoons which ran on Freaky Trigger during 1999. Script and Art by Al Ewing except * where Script is by Al and Tom Ewing.
“Choke – it’s predicted DOOM – for ME!”
“I’ll &[…]