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A Rag, A Bone, A Hank of Hair
We have starting points. Sometimes we have restarting points. Sometimes we are reborn. Continue reading “A Rag, A Bone, A Hank of Hair”
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Work and Progress
This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte It was a beautiful Sunday and I traveled to town to raid the annual gargantuan Christian Aid book sale in one of Edinburgh’s magnificent churches. But turns out that churches are doing other things on a Sunday and they had turned the money changers and change-from-a-fiver givers from the temple. So instead to Stockbridge for the unbearably crowded food … Continue reading Work and Progress
Dream Catcher
But a Dream! by David Robertson David Robertson was kind enough to send me a copy of his new collection But a Dream! This brings together some of David’s unpublished early work from the 1990’s. Like a good librarian David has kept his archives – maybe in some kind of Borgesian pocket dimension or possibly just in a cardboard box. From wherever they came, here … Continue reading Dream Catcher
Spider-Man 544 by Mick Austin
Cover of the Week – Spider Man 544 Mick Austin provided the beautiful painted cover for this issue of Marvel UK’s Spider-Man. Spidey gives up the limelight to Frog-Man and the White Rabbit. Continue reading Spider-Man 544 by Mick Austin
The Upside Down
Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker Another title I picked up from Dunfermline Comic Con 2019 was Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker. I always have a lot of time for creators who use the format to push the boundaries. After all you can’t get a Netflix show that tells two interweaving stories, can be read in reverse and meets in the middle, well maybe … Continue reading The Upside Down
Iron Man by Jerry Paris
Cover of the Week – Captain America issue 53 from Marvel UK, February 1982. Featuring Iron Man by Jerry Paris. Continue reading Iron Man by Jerry Paris
Change Management
Boy Abducted By Aliens Returns by Dave West and Gustavo Vargas Teenage years are difficult. You are growing and changing. Maybe you rebel against your parents, maybe you are desperate to fit in at school, to be just like the cool gang. Peter Thomson certainly did. He wanted to be one of the lads rather than one of their victims. And it turned out that … Continue reading Change Management
Spider-Man 545 by Cam Kennedy
Cover of the Week – Spider-Man 545 from Marvel UK A great find at Edinburgh Comic Con. This Marvel UK issue of Spider-Man with a fantastic cover from Cam Kennedy depicting Spider-Man and Frog-Man. Continue reading Spider-Man 545 by Cam Kennedy
We Want Only the Earth
If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and … Continue reading We Want Only the Earth
Starblazer 5
Cover of the Week Starblazer from Dundee’s own comics publishing giant D.C Thomson was a pocket book sized comic that features some amazing sci-fi cover art. I couldn’t find who created this cover but the story inside is from Rob Carter and Jaimie Ortiz. Other comics greats to work on this title included Ian Kennedy and Grant Morrison. The back cover features some space faring … Continue reading Starblazer 5
Don’t Fall Asleep
The Forest, The Chair, and Those Forsaken There by James McCulloch, Dan Charnley, Robin Jones In the dark our mistakes come to visit us. Their torments keep us awake and when we finally sleep they haunt our dreams and twist our nights with nightmares. You find yourself in the woods, you see a cabin. In the cabin there is a man tied to the chair, … Continue reading Don’t Fall Asleep
