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Black Mask is having a hell of a debut year. As well as the excellent Occupy Comics, its launch titles include supernatural grindhouse noir 12 Ways To Die , demented science fiction thriller Ballistic and Liberator . Liberator is one of the most interesting, taking the standard superhero idea of …

(opens in new tab) In the first half of Person Of Interest ‘s first season it’s not evidently a show that has any genre credentials. In the land of UK TV listings it’s been quite sitting comfortably next to non-fantastical police procedural shows CSI and The Mentalist . Actually ignore …

I was one of those authors. Back in the early 21st Century, Andrew gave me a slot in one of the anthologies. The Alsiso Project was an anthology of stories based on a typo, and the different ways you could interpret it. My story was presented as a lecture, if …

The books are a huge amount of fun, and are part of the new spearhead of British urban fantasy, along with Paul Cornell’s London Falling , Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers Of London series and The City’s Son by Tom Pollock. Emma’s been working in this world for some though, having produced …

Issue #1 Writer: J Michael Straczynski Artist: Ben Templesmith Letterer: Troy Peteri Publisher: Image Comics Joe Fitzgerald is a man you come to when you don’t have anyone else. A problem solver, Joe has a reputation hard-earned through his previous life as a mob enforcer and the horrific end to …

Written by: C Allegra Hawksmoor, John Reppion and Dylan Fox Published by Vagrants Among Ruins • http://www.amongruins.org/?page_id=301 The future died nine years ago. Earth was deep in the grip of a Steampunk industrial revolution, steam trains writing themselves across the countryside as colossal aerostats drifted overhead. Fortunes were made, lives …

Caleb and Lenny have broken down on these roads. And the only thing that they hate more than that, the stifling heat, and the fact they have no food, is each other. J Daniel Sawyer’s novella opens in the sort of situation we’ve all been in from time to time. …

While all this has been going on, my friends and colleagues have been asking me one thing. It’s the same thing they ask me every year around this time, and then again in July, while the event is happening: “Are you going?” When I reply that I’m not, there’s always …

(opens in new tab) One of the things that has always fascinated me about comics is how easily the medium adapts to any kind of story, and how, at times, reluctant it is to do so. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bang the drum about how we should all …

Which is where Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton come in. Together they’ve discovered Goldtiger , a lost cult newspaper strip from the 1960s. Packed full of action, style and casual violence, Goldtiger was the last great work of Antonio Barreti and Louis Shaeffer, a writer and artist team who seemed …