Strip Magazine - New UK High Street Title

[BPP]

7 never showed up in FP here. They tend to know as much about it as they do International Trade Law.

I'll keep on trying to get it for the number of Irish and 2000AD folk involved but I can't say that its been anything like professionally handled.

With MediaFire, AcesWeekly, Titan's new range, the return of AI and the Phoenix all chasing the UK comics consumer pound  Strip is up against a lot of competition that requires its regularity to come good and fast.

[Jim_Campbell]

7 never showed up in FP here. They tend to know as much about it as they do International Trade Law.

#7 is rarer than rocking horse shit owing to miscommunication that saw a strip by Moebius reprinted in English for the first time. Once it was realized that this was an error,* rather than a spectacular coup, the issue had to be recalled... :-(

Cheers

Jim

*No. Seriously, before someone steps in with an inevitable conspiracy theory — it really was just a fuck-up.

[BPP]

Bloody hell. This Comic is actually cursed, right?

Hope they'll put the missing episodes of Warpaint etc up on the net or something. Pulped editions are a bit tricky in sequential anthologies.

[Jim_Campbell]

Hope they'll put the missing episodes of Warpaint etc up on the net or something. Pulped editions are a bit tricky in sequential anthologies.

Pretty sure it was all standalone stuff in #7. If there were any episodes of continuing strips, they'll be in the new #1.

Cheers

Jim

[Ancient Otter]

7 never showed up in FP here. They tend to know as much about it as they do International Trade Law.

#7 is rarer than rocking horse shit owing to miscommunication that saw a strip by Moebius reprinted in English for the first time. Once it was realized that this was an error,* rather than a spectacular coup, the issue had to be recalled... :-(

Cheers

Jim

*No. Seriously, before someone steps in with an inevitable conspiracy theory — it really was just a fuck-up.

Strange, I got mine from FB mail order a few weeks after it came out, why couldn't they send it to their branches if they had customers looking for it?

I understand the rights to Moebius' works are a minefield as explained in the comments in this article.

[Jim_Campbell]

If you got a copy, you were lucky because it must have missed the recall. No idea how or why, just explaining why a lot of people weren't able to get hold of #7.

Cheers

Jim

[Goosegash]

Blimey. I hadn't even got around to reading my Issue 7 yet. Guess I'd better start looking for an airtight container to keep it in...

Incidentally, I have a spare 5/6 if anyone's still after it, one of the copies that was sent out twice by mistake.

[Goosegash]

Just a reminder that the all new Strip is apparently hitting the newsstands tomorrow, at least if you're in the vicinity of a WH Smiths. Fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong between now and then.

[Albion]

According to the Strip page on Facebook, Smiths will now be putting Strip on the shelves on Wednesday or Thursday.
The ipad version is now in sale.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

To the local Smiths on Wednesday I will slither, slavering with delight that Strip awaits me there.

[Mark Taylor]

If you got a copy, you were lucky because it must have missed the recall. No idea how or why, just explaining why a lot of people weren't able to get hold of #7.

Cheers

Jim

Seriously? I managed to grab a copy from Forbidden Planet's website when my subscription copy failed to turn up. This was a few weeks later after I'd had no response to an email enquiry and decided it definitely wasn't going to show up, so I'm very surprised FP were still selling it through their site considering it had been recalled.

[Mark Taylor]

...In fact they are still showing it as being available on their site right now: http://forbiddenplanet.com/95113-strip-magazine-7-christmas-special/

Admittedly information on FP's site has been known to be inaccurate.

[Jim_Campbell]

Fuck it. Never mind.

[Mark Taylor]

If you think I'm lying, why don't you just come out and say so?

Strangely, I'm not able to track every single fucking copy of the comic; I'm not personally distributing it; I'm just the fucking letterer. Someone asked what happened to #7, so I told them. Clearly not all the copies got hoovered up in the recall and you managed to pick one up. Be happy, instead of insinuating... well, whatever the fuck it is you're insinuating.

Jeez. I'm insinuating nothing. I expressed surprise in my post, nothing more.

I checked FP's website to see if they were still advertising it. They are. Again surprising but hardly an insinuation - and mainly posted as a heads up for anybody who's still desperate to get hold of a copy.

[Mark Taylor]

...Also as a paid-up subscriber I have to say I'm just a little bit narked that the publishers never bothered to inform me (and presumably all other subscribers) that the promised issue #7 was in fact, not going to turn up at all. I can forgive all the mistakes and problems that have plagued the title but being too lazy to inform subscribers of something like this is a little harder to let pass. Particularly as nobody bothered to reply to my enquiry.

Again, nothing to do with a letterer who happened to work on it, but just to be clear I'm not attempting to imply anything of the kind.