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Cinebook Newsletter 223- July 2026

2026-07-29T14:48:55.010-07:00

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Dear Reader,

Two tales for you this month, both of the age-old struggle between order on one side, and rebellion on the other. And yet, two very different stories indeed!

We start with the third and final volume of Orbital spin-off Outlaws, as Kristina’s choice to live her life outside the rules of the Galactic Confederation comes home to roost. With the police on one side of her, old enemies on the other, and unrest among her own people, all that’s left is for the tragedy to conclude and make her the Kristina we meet later in Orbital …

Then, we head back to 19th century France for the second half of The Bank’s second generation. The family sundered by a brother and sister’s rivalry and hatred in the first two volumes have begun mending some fences, but it’s a long process, and History may not give them much time, as it barrels towards the tragic events of the Paris Commune and the restoration in blood of law and order.

July with Cinebook – a revolution in entertainment!

Mathieu Lauffray and Xavier Dorison's breathtaking pirate series Long John Silver is back in print, all four volumes available again. Stunning art, high adventure, and characters who will stay with you long after you finish the story – this is one series you don’t want to miss!

Outlaws 3
Sylvain Runberg & Eric Chabbert
Seeds

Kristina, Zachary, and Olmay have managed to set up an interstellar luxury vehicle trafficking ring and now lead a proper criminal gang, the Trident. The young Earthling’s future is far from secure, though. Her men hate her because of her origins, Olmay is turning increasingly tyrannical and bloodthirsty, and external threats abound … Read more

The Bank 4
Pierre Boisserie, Philippe Guillaume & Malo Kerfriden
The Commune’s Treasure

1861. The colossal profits generated by Haussmann’s great work have made both branches of the Saint-Hubert family extremely rich. Despite the sometimes bloody, sometimes tragic secrets that poison this generation, a certain rapprochement seems to be in the works – motivated, of course, by money r … Read more

Back in print by popular demand! Perfect opportunity to complete your collection – and if you've never tried the series, now's the time!
Long John Silver 1 Lady Vivian Hastings	Long John Silver 2 Neptune
Long John Silver 3 The Emerald Maze	Long John Silver 4 Guiana-Capac

Outlaws 3
Seeds

The Bank 4
The Commune’s Treasure

I Found AMAZING Clearance Deals & New Toys at Walmart & Target!!

2026-07-29T14:09:38.219-07:00

Hooper Lives! (sounds more dynamic if you shout it out at 3am in the garden

2026-07-28T12:13:24.273-07:00

I am still here. I am, still alive (barely) but the past week has been pretty intense and like running into brick walls.

Luckily, SDCC decided to help me out and although I can find nothing from artists alley or small indie comic publishers (if you have a link let me know) but toys. Oh, toys a plenty and it seems that a lot of people loved checking them out -nothing for us 3.75 inch figure collectors though.

Reviews are coming up soon as Cinebook sent me a "Get your spectacles on ands review these!" package.

So stay tuned kiddies!

SDCC 2026 Super7 ThunderCats Godzilla Peanuts Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles G.I. Joe Walkthrough!

2026-07-27T15:56:08.577-07:00

SDCC 2026 Mondo 1/6th Scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Marvel and Batman Booth Walkthrough!

2026-07-27T08:21:37.673-07:00

SDCC 2026 Jada Toys Invincible Street Fighter Scooby-Doo Mega Man Cyberpunk Strider Walkthrough!

2026-07-26T10:25:22.023-07:00

SDCC 2026 Mondo Masters of the Universe 200X and Real Ghostbusters Walkthrough!

2026-07-25T16:01:26.417-07:00

San Diego Comic Con 2026 NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Muppets Sesame Street DuckTales Walk-Thru

2026-07-25T16:00:32.605-07:00

Lanterns | Official Trailer | HBO Max

2026-07-24T15:12:45.492-07:00

SDCC Mcfarlane 2026

2026-07-24T09:33:39.334-07:00

The McFarlane Toys Show | LIVE from San Diego Comic-Con | Ep.14

2026-07-23T16:18:43.056-07:00

🔴 Live Stream – SDCC 2026 Day 1 – Show Floor, Exhibitor Hall & Cosplay – 2:00PM PST

2026-07-23T16:17:24.423-07:00

A. Soloway All Star Comic volume 5 -anyone have scans or copies?

2026-07-23T05:00:21.800-07:00

Now I know that over the many years I ask and ask and ask and to date have never received any type of response....I am an eternal optimist (without the ternal aspect).

I amn looking for scans of A Soloway's All Star Comic from vol. 5 no. 1 onward. After years of searching online I have given up.

So make an old man happy. If you have scans let me know at hoopercomicsuk@yahoo.com

Thank You

Clayface | Official Trailer

2026-07-22T13:38:56.342-07:00

Goldie Boutilier - HOW TO BE A LOVER (Official Lyric Video)

2026-07-21T10:45:40.534-07:00

Tales of Terror 6 is Here!

2026-07-21T09:21:08.560-07:00

56pp

Black and White

£10 UK (outside UK check store for cost)

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Contributors: Terry Ford, Darron Northall, Terry Hooper, Ben R Dilworth

The Annual Black Tower feast of Horror is here! The Reverend Merriowether ("God's Demon thumper") faces evil in two tales: Bastet and Varney the Vampyre! Will the Right Reverend succeed in his goal to wipe "the horrible things" from the Earth? Lady Silana, Tarot, Kotar and Sabuta combine forces in the now legendary mini epic: The Curse of the Lycanthrope" but fear not if one epic story was too little from his monastery retreat Ben R Dilworth brings us three tales of lycanthropy: Wolf. Werewolf and Wolf: Scream Life and what more could you ask for? Oh, a peek into The Black Files of Q Bureaux? An old case from 1898 maybe? Okay, babies you got it! All tales introduced by Black Tower's own stalwarts in the fight against vampires, werewolves, demons and...we'll not mention the psilocybin mushroom tea. Really.

OOOh...Spook-eeeee!

2026-07-21T08:23:40.374-07:00

Valencia Grace - Guillotine

2026-07-20T09:40:28.083-07:00

Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18

2026-07-20T09:34:30.154-07:00

Coming Soon... Are You Ready for Tales of Terror 2026?

2026-07-19T16:23:05.217-07:00

Did Batman Really Steal His Iconic Suit?

2026-07-19T15:40:27.321-07:00

The Atomic Age Comic -Do YOU Have a copy?

2026-07-18T17:05:47.899-07:00

Does anyone have any scans or can scan The Atomic Age Comic? What scans I have are pages...well...NOT scans. The pages were photographed back in the old Yahopo group days.

If anyone can help:hoopert1957@gmail.com

Weekly Rewind! Ep132: Invincible Darkstalkers Scooby-Doo Marvel Street Fighter MOTU Zelda DC News!

2026-07-18T11:00:33.411-07:00

The Return of the Gods and Green Skies Invasion Earth Series

2026-07-17T09:03:28.970-07:00

"I read the original quote from that German blogger and thought it was a lot of hot air. When Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes arrived I thought "thick book" and knew you'd taken it from 96 pages to 360+...it looked impressive. I read through it in two days and -robots, aliens, "gods", super heroes, sorcerers, alien invasions and more and world-wide. And you tell me this was done without a script?! It's the only one I can think of so, yeah, the greatest British super hero graphic novel fits as a description." Pete Clark

"You say this is your final big story? The Green Skies was fantastic and everything laid out into chapters was a great touch!"

David Stephens, Comic Reviews

" 'Holy ******* ****!' was all I could say. I even tried counting the number of characters and how the **** you produced all of this without a script beats me. Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes and The Green Skies could only have been better if George Perez had drawn it!"

Dan's Comics

"I have no idea why you are not pushing this even harder. The books Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes and The Green Skies I would love to see in German or at least get German fans to read since it has a good number of German heroes in it. Next big comic event over here send me copies and I'll sell them on my table!"

Gerd Hammer, German comics historian and trader

Selected comic readers were also chosen to review copies and, obviously, two of these were people from Hong Kong who I corresponded with on Manhua over the years.

"I just wish someone like Tong Li would publish this in Chinese -I mean there are Chinese heroes in this so why not?"

Wang Xiuying

"There HAS to have been a script and more than one person working on this! Brilliant!"

Mike Wayne, Australian comic dealer

Generally, these comments were all similar and I only quote these as any more would be very egotistical. The books should speak for themselves.

Paperback

Black & White

331 Pages

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It begins slowly. It always does. It's a deception that everything in the world is as it should be and that never changes.

Earth’s heroes and crime-fighters are going about their daily tasks –fighting a giant robot controlled by a mad scientist’s brain, attackers both human and mystical -even alien high priests of some mysterious cult and their zombie followers and, of course, a ghost and a young genius lost in time.

Pretty mundane.

But psychics around the world have been sensing something. A "something" that sends feelings of sheer terror through their psyches.

There is a huge alien Mother-ship near the Moon. Undetected by deep-space radar and other instruments, only a few on Earth have sensed it and they cannot penetrate the hull but only feel psychic screams and....worse.

And then it begins: strange orange spheres isolate and chase some of Earth’s heroes who then vanish into thin air –are they dead? An attack by an old foe or foes -?

Black, impenetrable domes cover cities world-wide.

Then it becomes clear to those within the domes what is going on: Alien invasion of Earth!

A war between the Dark Old Gods and the pantheons that followed!

Warriors from Earth’s past having to battle each day and whether they die or not they are back the next day!

No one suspects the driving force behind the events. One single evil guiding events. Events that could cause destruction and chaos throughout the multiverse.

Assaulted on all fronts can Earth’s defenders succeed or will they fail...is this truly the end?

The Cross-Earths Caper: Part II of the Invasion Earth Trilogy

Paperback,

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107 Pages

Price: £12.00

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Following the events on Neo Olympus and the Boarman invasion of Earth, many heroes and crime-fighters have withdrawn from activity. Some are trying to recover from injuries while others are fighting the mental scars left by the events.

But things have to go on. As heroes from other parallels who helped during the recent events return home, members of the Special Globe Guard are shocked at the sudden appearance of Zom of the Zodiac. Never a sign of good things a-coming!

Very soon, a group of heroes mount a rescue mission and find that a quick rescue mission can turn sour equally quickly. As they overcome one challenge the the heroes become lost between parallel Earths and face new threats.

Sometimes one Earth just is not enough. The complete story published in issues 7-10 of Black Tower Adventure now in...one handy dandy book!

B&W

124pp

£15.00

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It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods.

Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted.

The Many Eyed One is finally coming.

The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help.

The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders

B&W

126pp

£15.00

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Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One.

The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him.

Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters.

In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy.

On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet.

With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim

B&W

208pp

£16.00

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The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System.

Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win.

Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?

woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who Walked Through a Door and Into Another World

Varik Dann is but one character as we follow the attempts of heroes and adventurers as well as the military as they try to confront the Clone Zone Boys with no idea of who or what is behind them. And in space the very existence of not just the Earth but the solar system rests on efforts to stop an alien invasion fleet and if it cannot be stopped them there will be no conquest: the entire solar system will be destroyed by a doomsday device.

And now, in no particular order -some more art pages!

Comic Bits 3 -A Treasure Trove of Lost, Found and Forgotten!

2026-07-17T09:00:10.498-07:00

Colour/BW

80pp

£10.00 UK

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Comic Bits is the only journal dealing with the Platinum, Golden, Dark and Silver Ages of British comics and the creators involved.

This edition looks at the number of British "Bat men" -characters lost to time. The Bat by William McCail stars in his only ever appearance

We take a look at Tom Browne and Oliver Veal recognised as creators of what became the "British style" for over 100 years.

Prolific creator Terry Bave and his wife Sheila give us a glimpse of working in Silver age weekly comics.

Then there three rarities: the first is the origin of T.N.T. Tom a true star of Swan comics. Secondly we have the other star of Swan in Dene Vernon -Ghost Investigator. His very first pouting from 1940.

Third...well, a massive shock was the discovery of a super heroine not mentioned in any sources and this one off appearance drawn by E. H. Banger (we look at his career in this issue as well) -after 60 years Wanda the Wonder Girl is revealed!

Comic strips from some of the greats of British comics add extra zing to this issue.

Why miss out!