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On Saturday 9th March Garth Ennis will be holding a free online Q&A for this exhibition where he will discuss the landscape of British War comics in the seventies and their decline in the eighties, and describes how writers re-invigorate classic characters for contemporary audiences.
https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/garthenniswarcomics/

Not sure if this has been posted before but this just popped up on FB Illustrators magazine have a Trigan Empire Artists' Special out and Includes a complete Stripography and feature articles on the Artists:
Don Lawrence, Ernest Ratcliff, Ron Embleton, Miguel Quesada, Philip Corke, Oliver Frey & Gerry Wood


https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_ILLUSTRATORSTRIGAN.html#SID=1358

Time Breakers: a five-issue series published in 1997 by Helix (an imprint of DC Comics) written by Rachel Pollack and illustrated by Chris Weston is being collected for the first time in English & crowdfunded via the site Zoop.

Angela Attenborough is a young, bored housewife of the 1950s... but her life is about to change beyond her wildest dreams! She's about to be recruited by a future version of herself to a secret society of time-travellers known as The Time Breakers. Comprised of members drawn from the past, present and future, The Time Breakers are dedicated to the creation of time paradoxes, which they believe are instrumental to the creation of life itself. Their efforts bring them into a deadly conflict with The Knowers, a rival time-travelling cult who zealousy resist all forms of meddling in historical events.

If you want to be notified when the crowdfund starts please go to
https://zoop.gg/c/timebreakers?fbclid=IwAR23wrgr_eiqJEONHy4XMWn0rDRrcOc3oGrmUxwUS_a0YAQv2N9E4rb2GRA

We could have the Souther's done as the cast of Dad's Army and Ian Lavender could still play Private Pike and Daisy Ridley could be a female version of Private  Godfrey as she is his great grand daughter

I would like it to like the GFD Rogue either starting with the Quartz massacre and then Rogue helping Southers until he finds out about the Traitor General

Nice bit of trolling by Duncan Jones Rogue will be Welsh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68139233?fbclid=IwAR0EC0zByze_uMI5wLxfoGHvcDbp19-FdetSs8-Qb7YkbDzr2Vr3U0Bm7Sg

Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer - Redemption Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZBaklS79Wc

I remember when Crisis came out & like most people went to get it as it was from 2000AD only to find out that some of the characters in 3WW were loosely based on people I knew from the pub who were friends with Pat Mills' daughter

Looking at the list for this year there are some interesting ones including Asterix Olympic Special but interestingly there seems to be no 2000AD/Rebellion title shown. Have they decided not to do one this year or is it not being promoted yet like the DC ones

https://www.freecomicbookday.com/catalog

record producer and founder of the bands Boney M, No Mercy and Milli Vanilli, Frank Farian aged 82

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/23/boney-m-founder-frank-farian-dead-aged-82-20159307/?ico=just-in_article_must-read

Trailer for the final season of Star Wars Bad Batch is out now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5zeHdSwdQ

every extension has to have at least one chunk of pat mills so its gotta be either mach 1 or sigh american reaper

Don't think we'll get American Reaper as the story rights are owned by Clint & Pat

I'm sure this is just a coincidence but in the US Rico stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 but it does seem apt

He did two 3 part stories, The Crow City of Angels (with David Goyer, Dean Ormston &Phil Hester) & The Crow Dead Time (with James O'Barr, & Alex Maleev) for Top Dollar Comics/Kitchen Sink Press
Also For Dark Horse along side the Star Wars stories he wrote the 4 part story Aliens: Berserker (with Paul Mendoza & Andy Mushynsky) & Xena: Warrior Princess #1–8 (1999–2000): collected as The Warrior Way of Death (with Joyce Chin, Clint Hilinski, Mike Deodato & Ivan Reis), Slave (with Joyce Chin and Mike Deodato, Jr.) & Blood and Shadows (with Davide Fabbri & Mike Deodato)

Check out the DC mini-series Outcasts by Wagner, Grant and Cam Kennedy if you haven't already.

There was also the 1993 4 part series Lobo UnAmerican Gladiators where the Guys from Outcasts team up with Lobo with art from Simon Bisley