2000 AD Prog 1389: Cover
Art: Richard Elson
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WebFind: A Charley's War-inpsired Diorama – and a new Finnish edition
An iconic image from the antiwar story "Charley's War" has been brought to life as a splendid diorama - and new Finnish language will be available soon
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Comedian Rufus Hound teams with artist Dan Cornwell for a new Strontium Dog story
The tale will appear in 2000 AD’s end-of-year issue.
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Battle Action Force Returns in New Treasury Editions!
Battle Action Force Returns in New Treasury Editions! #comics #comicbooks
Battle Action Force was published weekly from October 1983 to November 1986 by IPC Magazines limited, and brought together some of the greatest talents in the British comics industry of that time, both on the editorial and illustrative fronts including names like Gerry Finley-Day, Geoff Campion, and Cam Kennedy. Included within its pages were the adventures of “Action Force”, created by British…
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SHOOT ME, BOSS! DON'T LET IT EAT ME ALIVE!" -- GOREHEAD'S M.O. IN A NUTSHELL.
HEAD OF PURE GORE -- THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST IS HIS CALL SIGN.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on textless cover, preliminary pencil sketch, & published cover art to "2000 AD" Vol. 1 #1729. April, 2011 [mega-spotlight on Gorehead Rex!]. Rebellion Publishing. Artwork by James McKay.
MINI-OVERVIEW: "Now that's a début cover! New artdroid James McKay absolutely knocks it out of the park with this terrifying painted cover for "Flesh - Texas." It has all the impact of those early progs back when we were all kiddies getting our weekly prog from newsagent!
James' said "I wanted to focus on Gorehead in close up on the cover, for maximum impact!" Gorehead is, we have discovered, a blood-drenched Tyrannosaurus Rex who, because of a blast at a Trans-Time base, has become "unstable" in time, so almost indestructible!"
-- 2000AD COVERS UNCOVERED (blogspot, originally posted by Pete Wells)
Sources: https://2000adcovers.blogspot.com/2011/04/shoot-me-boss-dont-let-it-eat-me-alive.html & https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/PRG1729.
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Review: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
Title: The Death I Gave Him
Author: Em X. Liu
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing
Length: 432 Pages
Category: Sci-Fi, Technothriller
Rating: 5 Stars
At a Glance: The Death I Gave Him is a sci-fi locked-room drama. Em X. Liu’s storytelling is utterly lush, and their world-building portrays the claustrophobia of the setting and duplicity of the characters while pushing the plot forward.
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Blog Tour (Book Review): The Knave of Secrets - Alex Livingston
Blog Tour (Book Review): The Knave of Secrets – Alex Livingston
Hello!
Today I’m joining The Write Reads blog tour for The Knave of Secrets by Alex Livingston, which is out next month from Rebellion Publishing.
Disclaimer – I received a copy in exchange for an honest review, all thoughts are my own.
Book Summary:
A twisty tale of magicians, con artists and card games, where secrets are traded and gambled like coin, for fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora and…
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2000 AD Sci-Fi Special (2018): "The Hockey Sticks of Hell"
Writer: Olivia Hicks
Art: Abigail Bulmer
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
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Apparel of Laughs adds classic girls comics designs to its growing line
Apparel of Laughs has launched a new range of six t-shirts celebrating the classic girl’s comics created by IPC Fleetway, including Misty and Tammy, in collaboration with Rebellion Publishing. Each design features a vintage illustration from the archives
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Thomas Stafford was the ninth child and second surviving son of Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Ursula Pole. Little is known of his early life, first being mentioned in 1550 as he travelled to Rome, where he associated with his uncle Reginald Cardinal Pole. He spent three years in Italy before travelling to Poland, obtaining the recommendation of King Sigismund Augustus who requested Mary restore him to the Dukedom of Buckingham.
Augustus's appeal appeared to have no effect. When Stafford returned to England in January 1554 he joined the rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt; this arose out of concern of Mary's determination to marry Philip II of Spain. The rebellion failed and Thomas was captured and briefly imprisoned in the Fleet Prison before fleeing to France. There, he intrigued with other English exiles and continued to promote his claim to the English throne.
On 18 April 1557 (Easter Sunday) Stafford sailed from Dieppe with two ships and over 30 men. Landing in Scarborough on 25 April 1557, he walked into the unprotected castle and proclaimed himself Protector of the Realm,[2] attempting to incite a new revolt by denouncing the Spanish marriage, railed against increased Spanish influence and promised to return the crown "to the trewe Inglyshe bloude of our owne naterall countrye".[1][3][4] Stafford claimed he had seen letters at Dieppe showing that Scarborough and 12 other castles would be given to Philip II and garrisoned with 12,000 Spanish soldiers before his coronation.[5] Three days later, the Earl of Westmorland recaptured the castle and arrested Stafford and his companions. Stafford was beheaded for treason on 28 May 1557 on Tower Hill, after imprisonment in the Tower of London. Thirty-two of his followers were also executed after the rebellion.[6].
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20 for the end of year book asks?
20 - what was your most anticipated release? did it meet expectations?
so I've actually been terrible about keeping up with new releases for ages, lmao. i'm always at LEAST three years behind the curve tbh. (often a lot more. stares guiltily at my unread Ancillary Justice paperback I bought before it even won the Hugo. er.) but I did have two books I knew of ahead of time and read this year and read!
one was novella The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, which I knew of as the author is a friend's friend and I like to buy books my friends' friends write, haha. that one absolutely matched my expectations- it's extremely fun and snappy sci-fi with creative religious worldbuilding, an economy of exposition that's very hard to nail in such a small pagecount, and a deft hand with a surprising amount of POV shifting for such a brief book. especially in the second half it really held my attention. i'm looking forward to her novel out next year now!
another was The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu, which was a little more of a mixed bag. for context, i am obsessed with Hamlet and contractually obligated to read any and all Hamlet retellings put in front of me, lol, so of course I had to buy it day of. 'queer sci-fi locked room mystery Hamlet debut novel' is just the sort of thing everyone demands i tell them my opinions on. buying it was kinda a no brainer ngl.
it was… mmm, a mixed bag for me? it's a book i think is probably more compelling the fewer specific, concrete opinions you have on the play itself, more in conversation i think with cultural conversation about Hamlet than the play itself at points. look, i have extremely strong and specific opinions on what the play is About TM and what themes are so core to the concept that you cannot afford to drop them. unfortunately, this book… largely drops one I think it absolutely necessary (one that's very commonly dropped by modern retellings), and generally ends in a way I think is a fairly weak attempt at subversion that undermines itself as a text talking about Hamlet-the-play. this all sounds super negative, but I actually liked a lot of things about it, and still gave it a 3/5! and i do think it's a thing where like. my opinions on Hamlet are incredibly idiosyncratic and strongly held, haha. i think generally this book is worth recommending and a lot of folks loved it more than me, just. it is still not the kind of Hamlet retelling i crave, alas.
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