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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2024 14:51:56 GMT
Out now Justin Marriott [ed] - Battling Britons #6 (Feb 2024) The Parade Ground
QUICK HITS
MISSED IN ACTION: Bagpipes! Elephants! Angry farmers! More late additions to previous articles.
COLCHESTER CALLING: The only way is Essex! James Bacon on the Commando Swap Meet in Colchester.
COMMANDO AT HALLOWEEN: They are spooky and they are kooky, the October COMMANDOS.
INTO WAR: It's art darling! James Bacon reviews the war art show in Oxford.
BRIEFING BATTLE ACTION 2024: Paul Trimble and Garth Ennis tease us with some chat about this year's releases.
BATTLING BRITONS MOST WANTED: Shameless plugs for our mates.
THE GREAT REVIVAL: No Dick Emery? James Bacon on the BATTLE ACTION mini-series.
GORDON LIVINGSTONE: COMMANDO MINI REVIEWS: Livingstone I presume?
IT'S MARAUDING TIME! I've already done the punchline.
THE KING IS DEAD: Spoiler alert! Justin Marriott on the Kommando King.
COLUMNS
INK JOBS; ALFONSO FONT: Jim O'Brien and his Confessions of a Demon Dwarf.
THE MYALL HIGH CLUB: Steve Myall review pocket books with seaplanes.
CROSS WORDS: Fire torpedo one! Phil Cross looks at Fleetway pocket books set at sea.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: James Bacon visits the locations used in the award-winning Maus.
THE BATTLE FILE: TOUGH AS NAILS: Paul Trimble on tough guys, lone wolves and spies in BATTLE WEEKLY.
INK JOBS: ENRIC SIO: Jim O'Brien on the Spanish artist who bought an unconventional style to pocket books.
ARTICLES
"COME MY PET, IT'S TIME TO KILL...": Jim O'Brien fights the ban on XL bully dogs and the influences behind the Black Max strip.
SHORT BATTLES: Justin Marriott on the 3-page self-contained strips which ran in BATTLE WEEKLY.
"THAT'S A FEW LESS BOCHES..": Jim O'Brien looks at when Braddock met Dracula.
GORDON LIVINGSTONE: Calum Laird on one of COMMANDO's most beloved artists.
TRAIN SPOTTING: All aboard! Learning to drive a train through war comics.
FIRE IN THE HOLE! Reviews of explosive Fleetways.Blurb: 100+ pages of Articles! News! Reviews! Checklists!
PLANES, TRAINS AND GIANT VAMPIRE BATS!
"COME MY PET, IT'S TIME TO KILL..." The bloody red baron! A look at cult WW1/horror strip Black Max and its influences.
BATTLE SHORTS: Twisted tales! The oft overlooked 3-page self-contained strips which ran in BATTLE WEEKLY.
NAVAL GAZING: War at sea! Fleetway pocket books with a nautical theme.
STEAMING IN: How I learned to drive a train by reading COMMANDO.
TOUGH GUYS AND SPIES: Dirtier than Harry! Battle Picture Weekly's take on the spy genre with Dredger, One-Eyed Jack and Gaunt.
PLUS... reviews of the BATTLE-ACTION relaunch, vintage COMMANDOS, KOMMANDO KING, MADDOCK'S MARAUDERS, seaplanes in war comics, artists Enric Sio and Alonso Font, photos of men in scout huts and more....Order direct from: Am*z*n.ukAm*z*n.comComments to follow on this and Comics Rule OK #1 over coming week (they arrived an hour ago).
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Post by dem bones on Mar 25, 2024 11:45:55 GMT
 Art Mike Dorey: Words Dan McGachey The editor on Commando's recent Halloween horror titles; Jim O'Brien on German WWI flying ace Baron 'Black Max' Von Klorr and his Sopworth-downing squadron of killer giant bats; James Bacon reports on the October 2023 Commando swapmeet at the Colchester Baptist Church Scout Hut; Steve Myall collates strips featuring allied seaplanes versus U-boats, Japanese Battleships and fighter jets; Jim O'Brien again on weird war stories in NEL's Dracula comic; ten things Justin learned about how steam trains perform during wartime from reading Commando pocket books. Bagpipes of the battlefield, elephants in war comics, and belligerent farmers - latest sightings. For this reader, the issue's standout piece is James Bacon's account of his visit to Kraków to trace the enforced journey undertaken by Art Spiegelman's parents during WWII as retold in Maus: A Survivor's Tale, "a comic book about Auschwitz."  Alfonso Font: Black Max |
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