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Signed up and looking forward to my first delivery of medieval instruments.

A bear?

01. James Newell - Jack in the Box. Don't know the Jack fella, but this is a neat idea backed up with a good drawing that somehow looks as if it's the Star Scan on the back of a ratty old Prog you found in a charity shop.

02. Neil McClements - Biochip Ewins

03. Andy Lambert - The Long Walk

HM: Stu101, Tips

Managed to miss the news about John Renbourn last week. It's not something I listen to a lot, but I have a soft spot for all of that English folk stuff as my parents were pretty into it.

Here's The Cuckoo.

09:00 GMT on Wednesday 1st April is a touch under 59 hours from now.

[[b[bWednesday.....in roughly forty hours from now.True????]

Somebody PM me with message to say I won't be able make any kind of purchase with this until next [b[bWednesday.....in roughly forty hours from now.

True????

Jesus wept! Seriously?! How long have you been posting on here?

The weekly Prog is released on a Wednesday. Subscribers normally receive their copy through the post on the Saturday before this. People who are not subscribers can buy a copy on the Wednesday. This could be by walking into a shop (predominantly in the UK and RoI) or via a number of digital platforms. The day is the same.

The Prog is available to buy on the same day every week. This does not change if Slaine is in it.

For the avoidance of doubt, this means Wednesday in the UK. My experience with Clickwheel is that it's usually available around 09:00 GMT. On Wednesday.

And here's the dark cover for IDW's colourised The Dark Judges:

Death, Fire, Mortis and Deadmaus.

I love Gilgun in This Is England - a really charismatic actor. He should be great, just hope he nails the accent.

I guess Cassidy should have a bizarrely mixed-up Transatlantic accent, no?

[M:I Rogue Nation]

M:I Rogue Nation trailer is all over youtube.  Looks like somebody has remebered spy capers are meant to be fun.

Yeah, this looks quality.


After a few years in the wilderness (both literal and metaphorical) Tony Jaa is back in business. Co-starring in Skin Trade with the Mighty Dolph, then he's up on wires for Killzone 2.

These. Furious 7. Fury Road. What a time to be alive!

It could only be better if there was also a documentary on the way about a revolutionary piece of consumer electronics... 808: The Movie.

Yeah, this is a cool thread. I almost feel that we should be paying you a subscription to watch the build take shape.

[Ragnarok]

I'm going to violate the core concept of this thread by just talking about what I'm getting at the moment, regardless of whether there's an issue out this week.

Ragnarok 4, seems to have been as age since the last one, but likely worth the wait. Simonson is crafting a very fine tale here IMO.

I think I got the first issue of Ragnarok in some Comixology giveaway and it was the one that stood head and shoulders above everything else. I've been really enjoying the series. There are some really cool little between panel moments and, so far, it has taken care to make each issue have enough story to satisfy in itself as well as furthering the ongoing narrative. Really makes me want to get hold of Simonson's old Thor stuff.

Conversely, I think Autumnlands is for the chop but I'll give it until the end of the first storyline to decide. I got the first one after seeing it bigged up on here and was a bit underwhelmed. It's not bad, but neither is it anything special and, as anthropomorphic fiction goes, it seems a more Sylvanian Families than Watership Down. Plus I didn't like main character being a whining dog.

I thought I'd learnt my lesson about Pete Milligan's modern work not being for me but hope springs eternal, so I've still got two issues of The Names to look forward to. It's a kind of techno thriller about economic manipulation with a couple of decent ideas but unfortunately none of the verve and flair of vintage Milligan.

Crossed +100 has been discussed elsewhere. It's an enjoyable comic but not earth-shattering.

Surprised to have seen almost no mention of Grant Morrison's current series on here.

Annihilator is almost Morrison by numbers: writer as protagonist; broken relationship with his ex; paradoxical enemies pursuing each other across daft backgrounds with cool technobabble; possible mental condition which calls into question whether any of it is really happening; the only thing missing is a cat. However, it's still pretty enjoyable and the whole thing is elevated considerably by Frazer Irving's art. Each issue has at least one stunning page on a par with this:


Only two issues into Nameless, but it already seems to be the most fun thing old Grant's produced since Seaguy. It's the not unfamiliar Morrison mix of esoteric mysticism, sci-fi trappings and deliberately weird things which would only spoil the ride if they were explained too soon. This wont be to everyone's taste but the part that really makes it stand out for me is it's foul-mouthed, uneponymous hero. His cunt-ridden dialogue is so authentically Scottish it makes me laugh just thinking about it. Like the Mirror Master from Animal Man (?) but with the Frankie Boyle filter turned up.

The art from Chris Burnham is quite stunning too. Interesting to see that he's followed Grant from Batman onto this.

That is one truly awful cover. Why draw his body as if it's a face?

Other glimpses followed,  not the same sustained progression I enjoyed tracing back in 1999, but just as exciting, the missus and I described where we were and what our lives were like the last time, and the kids were enthralled by the whole thing.  Love eclipses, just love 'em. 

This is quite marvellous.

It was cloudy here but still got a fairly decent effect. It was cloudy in Penzance last time too. Looking at NASA's eclipse website yesterday, it turns out there's one across the continental US in 2017 and my pal's house in a South Carolina is about four miles from the path of totality. Told her to expect visitors.

Fair enough. Couldn't be any worse than the original.

A friend told me that the weirdest thing about living in Ireland (the Free State) was not being able to buy a baked potato for lunch. Is this true?

Not a mashup, but any excuse to post this amazing Call Me Maybething again: http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/call-me-maybe-acapella-147-times-exponentially-layered