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A sneak peek: Fighting American – Brave New World

February 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Created in 1954 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Fighting American is both a response to Captain America and a reaction to the culture at the time. The hero began as a serious superhero – a patriotic American fighting against evil Communists. In just a few episodes the series morphed into more of a humorous […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: fighting american, Gordon Rennie, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, previews, titan comics

Close encounters of the nerd kind: A review of Survival Geeks

September 2, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Survival Geeks is a sci-fi comedy from 2000AD. It has the line “Cthulhus! Thousands of them!” which is writer Emma Beeby’s favourite. Also working on the series is stalwart Gordon Rennie and illustrator Neil Googe. The premise is simple and that’s because the goal of Survival Geeks is to parody geeky clichés. We’ve a group […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: 2000 AD, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Neil Googe, reviews, survival geeks

Start your 2000 AD and Judge Dredd adventures here: A review of Prog 1973

March 21, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week’s 2000 AD is a good and useful edition. Prog 1973, which you can buy online or use one of the apps to read, is a special “jumping on” issue. All the stories in the edition are new. In other words you don’t have to go into the back issues to catch-up with the […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: 2000 AD, Annie Parkhouse, Colin MacNeil, Eddie Robson, Ellie De Ville, Emma Beeby, Gary Caldwell, Gordon Rennie, Jake Lynch, judge dredd, Len O’Grady, Michael Carroll, Neil Googe, reviews, Simon Bowland

Grim, dark and compelling: A review of 2000 AD’s Jaegir

August 25, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Jaegir is a one-shot in the US-format from 2000 AD. The comic book is written by Gordon Rennie (Department of Monsterology), drawn by Simon Coleby (The Royals), coloured by Len O’Grady and lettered by Simon Bowland. Importantly, although Jaegir is a one-shot it is set in the same universe as the classic 2000 AD Rogue […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: 2000 AD, Gordon Rennie, Jaegir, reviews, rogue trooper, Simon Coleby

Dead Roots review

November 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dead Roots is a zombie comic anthology, with a first edition just out, and a quarterly publishing schedule via Apple’s NewStand app. There’s a Kindle version in development. The premise is simple but effective; Dead Roots follows the initial outbreak of a zombie plague. As an anthology is follows different people in multiple short stories, […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Andrew Ellard, dead roots, Eric Canete, Gordon Rennie, James Henry, James Moran, Jason Arnopp, Lee Carter, Mike Garley, Ned Hartley, newstand, reviews, zombies

The 2000 AD National Signing Day

August 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When we had the news of 2000 AD coming to the iPad we also mentioned the first ever 2000 AD National Signing Day. The event celebrates 35 years of Thrill-power, in one zarjaz day! In Forbidden Planets and Travelling Man stores across the UK, on 1 September, a host of famous names would be available […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: 2000 AD, Al Ewing, Ben Willsher, Boo Cook, Clint Langley, Colin MacNeil, D’Israeli, Dan Abnett, Dave Gibbons, David Bishop, Dylan Teague, Forbidden Planet, Gary Erskine, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, John Higgins, John Wagner, judge dredd, Kek-W, Lee Carter, Lee Garbett, Lee Townsend, Mark Buckingham, Mark Harrison, Mike Carroll, Patrick Goddard, Peter Doherty, PJ Holden, Rufus Dayglo, Sean Phillips, Simon Bisley, Simon Spurrier, Steve Yeowell, travelling man

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