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300: a big ol' floating head.

September 11, 2024

Hullo. Sakhmeet Power To Control Distribution Is The Real Fantasy 1990s Gen X band I'm worried about the goth girl Release Bye I was thinking of perhaps...

299: less atomic

August 29, 2024

Hullo. ThirdExperimentalLinksBye This is a Thursday newsletter, as the Press release for this is just going out. Yup, it's the third printing for THE POWER...

298: verdant green, verticality and goats

August 21, 2024

Big ProjectPowerfulAPYabberFutureLinksBye We Called Them Giants is approaching its FOC on September 2nd, so your comic shop would love to get your order...

297: I appear to like the word "chew"

Hullo. Power Company Glasgow 5000 Links Bye And today we launch The Power Fantasy. One final little surprise as it hits the shelf. You'll see above that...

Hullo. Digital Love Gen World Links Bye One week to go until The Power Fantasy arrives in the shops, like a friendly comet that shakes hands and buys folks...

295: what happens when Smaug makes love to a train

Hullo. Call Me Giants (maybe) Cow Actually, no, do believe the hype Links ! Bye We Called Them Giants is out in November (or last week of October comic...

294: I always could have made it camper

Hullo. Booking Artbook Good Book The Good Book Playlistlist Booklook Links Bye I don't leave the house much any more, preferring to skulk around the writing...

293: Is there a towel here?

Hullo. Judge Jacky Jury Jabber Jooks about writing Links Bye The Pre-orders cut-off on The Power Fantasy is Monday, so in this final approach we figured......

292: there's always spite.

Hullo. “This is where we'd play Prince if we could afford prince” Art vs the Abyss, abyss is winnning Ooh, Pantone Genning Personas Steamy Wi̶n̶d̶o̶w̶s̶...

291: That sentence nearly made me seem professional

Hullo. He's not your brother Original Die cast Can we kickstarter it? Links Bye The latest of our Power Fantasy teasers has just gone live over at...

290: Jamie drew the living

Hullo. Once Back Again Light Links Bye It's our ten year anniversary of WicDiv's launch today. To celebrate, we've just launched a Kickstarter for a Fancy...

289: the burden of being Chip

Hullo. Sakhmeet and greet Santa AMA(mostly) Kraknoa Step 3: Prophet Links Bye Firstly, I've imported subscribers from Substack. I'm told that it shouldn't...

288: Sure thing, Daddy Grant

Hullo. You say Goodbye I say Halo Quasi Victorian stabbycuffs Black and white and read all over Canon Links Bye Out today: X-men 35 (aka Uncanny X-men #700)....

287: Luciano is the real hero

Hullo. PoX on all your HoXs Hellbound Bathbound Links Bye Big week. The Last Issue of Rise of the Powers of X, which is a whole lot. The epilogue is next...

286: I am the Blue, No, ARGGGH knight

Hullo. Let Me Bey Your Power Fantasy 54-76 Links Bye The Image solicits are out for August, which is when the The Power Fantasy launches. You can read the...

285: hiring Ste

Hullo. Forever Changes Ex Crawling Hashtags Links War Bye The end of X-Men Forever, so the end of Immortal X-men. Also my last issue with Luca, who jumped...

284: a severed plushy arm

Hullo. Fore3ver Cutie Murderer Links Bye X-Men Forever #3 moves us into the back end of this coda to Immortal X-men. These three issues form an interesting...

283: Swole Initiative

Hullo. Immortopowers Mortocrypto Links Bye One of the things which happens in work for hire comics is that occasionally the release schedule aligns in a...

282: Hold onto your delights

Hullo. Next Big Thing Cripes Links Bye Big news broke on Friday over at io9. Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowles and yours truly are back together, and our...

281: lost it in the local Co-op

Hullo. James McAvoy! What are you DOING!? Books Links Bye We reach the half-way point of Rise of Powers of X, which is basically the end of the first...

280: what's your exit plan?

Hullo. Forever Since Last Issue Yap! Links Bye And the artist previously known as Immortal X-men is back. It's a weird one, this. At its heart this is...

279: you cannot moderate the unmoderatable

Hullo. The Power Fantasy Links Bye So, the big news from Emerald City. Let's open with the teaser, as with any luck, it'll tell you everything you need to...

278: the long suffering

February 28, 2024

Hullo. Espirit Benetar Links Bye I'm in Seattle, for Emerald City Comic Con. My first US comicon since before Covid. I'm tabling at A-10 in artist's alley...

277: Get your best Brass In Pocket on

February 21, 2024

Hullo. X Ex X+3 Links Bye Rise of the Powers of X #2 drops today. After #1 does the slight of hand to explain the situation, we get Xavier's team together...

276: tempting, but ahistorical

February 14, 2024

Hullo. Emerald The Signal Glass mountains Books Links Bye I mentioned last time that I'll be at Emerald City Comic Con at the end of the month (Feb 29th-...

275: The attack and the empathy, the open heart and closed fist.

January 24, 2024

Hullo. Kulkarni Links Bye When the Chart Music Patreon mail arrived entitled Neil Kulkarni: 1972-2004, I thought “that's a shame” as I presumed it meant that...

274: metre-long trails of dissolving slug

January 10, 2024

Hullo. The written word is a lie How Bizarre Links Byyyyeeee!!! And we begin. Well, we begin our bit. The beginning began last week, and (to be specific)...

273: I'm going to tell my children that this is Elastica's second album

January 3, 2024

Hullo. House Music Links Byyyyeeee!!! Out this week – not by me, but Lucas joins Gerry to kick off the official climax of the whole Krakoan Age. I said right...

December 27, 2023

Hullo. Sisters of No Mercy Whatsoever Store your RPG manuals in a bush Links Byyyyeeee!!! Last week of comics of the year, and the last issue of Immortal...

171: I construct delusions

November 30, 2023

Hullo. Brighter Shade of Blue 2023-2024 Project Update Howdy Smaug Minimalism Long captions vb Links Byyyyeeee!!! I've got nothing out this week, but I...

270: a crying puddle of goo

November 22, 2023

Hullo. Penultimate Workworkwork Links Byyyyeeee!!! After a bit of a longer gap than usual, we're back with Immortal X-men #17. Juan Jose Ryp joins us,...

269: a timely drool

November 16, 2023

Hullo. January February Starry eyed Links Byyyyeeee!!! I wasn't planning to do a newsletter this week, and then Marvel dropped the first internal previews of...

268: the enigmatic “L”

November 8, 2023

Hullo. Forever changes Blanket Fort Bubbles The Toilet is Majestic Not Null Points Headmusik The biggest band of all time is a pun Links Byyyyeeee!!!...

267: the absent sad bangers

October 18, 2023

Hullo. Out of Space D36 Nimrod in disco flares Links Byyyyeeee!!! NYCC was the last weekend, where Marvel released the news about the end of the Krakoan Age....

266: Kro wouldn't do these horrible things

October 5, 2023

Hullo. Lucas Leaving the house Comics Campaign Byyyyeeee!!! Immortal X-men is out this week – yesterday, to be precise. The newsletter is late as yesterday...

265: You won't like her when she's hangry

September 27, 2023

Hullo. One More Time Original Omnomnom Books Perfect Console Byyyyeeee!!! So, yeah, I'm doing it again for reasons, mainly as (just like Orange Juice who are...

264: Under Total Communism the lavatories would work better

September 20, 2023

Hullo. No One Man Should Have All This Power But An Artist And A Writer Can Probably Split It Grail Toilets Eggs of Poor Value Links Byyyyeeee!!! So Marvel...

263: a sad old man

September 6, 2023

Hullo. I Must Feed Poetry Comics Funding Bangers Links Byyyyeeee!!! Immortal X-men 15 is out, where we barrel on into the dual plot structure. On Krakoa,...

August 16, 2023

Hullo. Jean Genie Days of Past Future Issue (recent one) Links Byyyyeeee!!! Solicits for November have started to drop, including teasing issue 17 of...

261: a nice double helping of schadenfreude

Hullo. Restofthecastaway Links Byyyyeeee!!! Immortal X-men powers into the Fall of X, and we flip our cards. I believe there's a CBR interview dropping today...

260: I have to pray to the 5God

Hullo Love Gencon Links Bye!!!! Announced this week, in time for Gencon, is the first DIE expansion - DIE RPG SCENARIOS 1: BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLES. And coo!...

259: What fresh hell is this?

Hullo. Party Hard Original Gaming Saxey Links Byyyyeeee!!! Not actually a book by me, but a big enough one for anyone following the X-line that I want to...

258: a very good boy indeed

Hullo. Leave Buy Brindlewood Bay Links Byyyyeeee!!! Firstly: coo. Look at that cover. Mark's done an amazing set for all the Quiet Council, and this rounds...

257: I am highly imaginative

Hullo. Kiss! Kiss! FP Links Byyyyeeee!!! As Fall of X is close enough that we're all tottering on the edge, the last of the Before the Fall specials arrive....

Hullo. I read a book, like a grown ups If you can’t love yourself Driven Links Byyyyeeee!!! Immortal X-men is back, with issue 12, which is our Colossus...

255: Panetone Stark

Hullo. UKGE Origin of Sins Casual Yabber Masteryabber Links Byyyyeeee!!! It's the UK Gaming Expo this weekend, my first con of the year, the first time I've...

254:A Bunch Of Billy Bragg Records

Hullo. Immoral, no more (Still pretty immoral) Dress Sinister 4 - 1 I met a devil woman Links Byyyyeeee!!! Immortal X-men returns with issue 11, which is all...

253: Andy Kelly is very good at the internet

Hullo. End of future grimness, start of present grimness Links Byyyyeeee!!! 1000 years in three months comes to an end, with Sins of Sinister: Dominion,...

252: "Halpard Lowerslop", "Cunksmith Corkerson", "Dilweena Breakly"

Hullo. More Grimness DIERPG Teeth No Links Byyyyeeee!!! And Si’s steps up, spiked bat in hand, with Lorenzo Tammetta and Phillip Sevy taking over from...

251: a book with a ribbon is a win-state

Hullo. The future remains Grim DIERPGHERE Top Marks Link Byyyyeeee!!! Al takes the bloody baton in Sins of Sinister, and continues to beat all and sundry...