comic bits online

2026-04-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Mr. Vampire (1985)- Chinese horror comedy

Hong Kong’s biggest anime ‘doujinshi’ event returns to AsiaWorld-Expo

2026-04-19T12:03:00.000-07:00

Horror Mangaka Art PARADISE: Art Exhibition Crawl in Tokyo, Japan

2026-04-19T11:48:11.408-07:00

Tales of Terror 5

2026-04-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

Terry Hooper-Scharf, Ben R. Dilworth et al

Pages 75

Binding Perfect Bound

Interior Black & White

Dimensions A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

£8.00

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Once again the library of the Black Tower is opened and its files delved into. Robert Lovett -back from the dead for vengeance?

A mysterious case of two men falling into a strange dimension -the Black Abyss! The Living dead!

Black Tower's two sorcerers Kotar and Sabuta try to intervene in The Deadly Dilemma of Sigismund Benfrigisson!

Oh and there is more and you will sharpen your vampiric fangs, file your lycanthropic claws to razor sharpness to get this one!

Johnny Neg 2: Down In The Burn Pitts

2026-04-19T11:01:00.000-07:00

Ben Dilworth & Co.

A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 m

25 Pages

Interior Color: Premium Black & White

Binding Type: Paperback Saddle Stitch

Cover Finish: Glossy

£8.00 UK

Johnny Neg -future detective in a dystopian Nu London where double speek, fist, gun and corruption are every day things Neg has to deal with. Join him Down in the Burn Pitts. Along for this journey are stories involving Wilberforce of the Yard, Corporal Religion Horror Tales and...a cat.

The Iron Warrior Collection

2026-04-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

49pp

Black and white

£10.09

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In the 1940s, Rodney Dearth and his exploratory fighting machine known as the Iron Warrior left Africa to travel to South America in search of lost explorer Percy Fawcett. Crocodiles, giant snakes, hostile natives and..Big Bong -the terror of the Amazon! This collection presents a 1940s William A. Ward strip, Ben R. Dilworth's Big Bong, Amazon Adventure and a couple special pages, and Terry Hooper-Scharf's Black Tower Adventure strip The Iron Warrior: Jungle Terror plus text features!

The Amazing World of Alan Class

2026-04-19T08:40:13.485-07:00

A4
B&W
24pp
£7.00
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Marvel, Timely, Atlas, Charlton, ACG, MLJ/Archie Dennis the Menace (US) -one man published them all. Alan Class. Who? Class is legendary for bringing black and white reprints of US comics to a country starved of the medium thanks to a certain war!

From 1959-1989 Suspense, Sinister, Astounding and Uncanny gave us a comic fix for a few pennies. Learn more about the man and how Class Comics came about in the long awaited print version of Terry Hooper's exclusive interview!

Quick Notes

2026-04-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

Some reviews of Cinebook titles coming up this week so we'll see what they have to tempt us

to part with money!

Pushing some of the Black Tower books here today as someone asked why we are called "Black Tower Comics and Books" when we "have no books" -I pointed that gentleman in the direction of the Black Tower Comic News blog where all our comics, albums, graphic novels and books are listed (with links to the online store!).

Tomorrow back to drawing.

In Pursuit: Things Known and UNKNOWN

2026-04-19T07:11:00.000-07:00

62pp

B&W

£7.00

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Fact NOT fiction journal looking at trange creatures and stories from around the world

Contents:-

A "Cold Case" Too Old? The Beast Of Faudiere –Mystery Killer

The Strange Creature in Repton Woods

Cry Werewolf ! and The Curious And Frightening Case Of The Hull Werewolf

On The Scientific 'Need' To Kill A Sasquatch

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy group has blood on their hands?.

On Gathering Hard Evidence

The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle

Photographic Evidence That Dinosaurs Exist

The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere

Black Tower World Mysteries -Cryptozoology, The Paranormal and the Plain Weird

2026-04-19T06:34:00.000-07:00

Some Things Strange & Sinister

A4 Format

B&W

Paperback

358 pages

Heavily illustrated

£20.00

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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack! Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!

Contents

Foreword by Travis L. Whitehurst

Introduction de occultis non judicat ecclesia

The Bristol Rocking Horse

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn

The Coonian Ghost

The Ghosts Of All Saints Church

His Luminous Chamber

The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg

And More Ghost Stories

The Thomas B. Cumpston Case

The Chupacabra

The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle

What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?

Mystery Beasts Of Ireland

The Creature Of The Dump

The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods

The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack

The Black Beast Of Darmstadt

The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square

The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport

The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet

Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures

The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video

From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs

Aerial Encounters Over Austria

A Crashed UFO In 1790?

Angel Hair

Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”

Strange Aliens From Space

The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals

Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation

Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?

The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Some MORE Things Strange & Sinister

322 pages

B&W

Illustrated throughout

Paperback:

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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister. For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas -before they were officially 'discovered' along with exclusive lost photographs.

Wild men of Europe, the UK and US; from the bizarre to blood chilling. Hominology.

Giant snakes.

Amazons.

The Giant serpent of Carthage.

Girt Dog of Ennerdale.

The Beast of Gevaudan.

Crocodiles in the UK.

Silent City of Alaska.

And much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.

Pursuing The Strange & Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint

240 pp

B&W

Profusely Illustrated with photographs and illustrations

£20.00

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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans. This is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.

Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.

The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja. Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle.

Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird

Mysterious & Strange Beasts

324pp

B&W

£20.00

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The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere

The Beast of Lyonnais

The Beast of Cevennes, Gard and Vivarais

The Beast of Sarlat

The Beast of Gevaudan

British Man Beasts

Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West Midlands

The Strange Creature in Repton Woods

Bigfoot Returns – To Kent!

Werewolf!

The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf

The Gnome of Girona

The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs

Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible Identification

The Dingellchough Mystery Creature

The Unidentified Corfu Sea Creature

Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian Gulf

The Devil of Gatagon

The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids

The Sheep Killer of Niali

Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville

Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction

The Bat Creatures

The Owl-man

The British Pig-man and Snake-man

The Pictish Beast

Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?

The Chupacabra

Black Tower World Mystery Books -UFOs and Close Encounters

2026-04-19T06:32:00.000-07:00

Although there are some classic cases in these books the majority involve cases that are very rare, have never appeared in English before and unlike most "clump everything together to fill a book" efforts these look at aspects of cases as well as some very common but not reported on before entity and scenario types.

Someone who has been involved in Ufology since the 1980s noted: "Over half these cases I have never heard of before!"

530 pages

illustrated with maps, photographs and more

A4 format

B&W

Paperback:
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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth. Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorenzen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers. An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved. Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

Fully illustrated with drawings, maps and photographs some very rare or previously unpublished.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.

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220 pages
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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval
Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter
UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
The UFO That Landed On A US Highway
My Encounters With The Men In Black
A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type

Early 20^th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounter with a Boggart
Some Odd and Unusual Cases
Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities
The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?
The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case

Strange Aliens from Outer Space?
Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO

Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue

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370pp

Profusely illustrated with photos and maps

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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?

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Fully illustrated containing photographs and maps

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon.

contents list:

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect?

3. The Moreland Incident

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977?

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre

8. The Pwca

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter

13. Harrison Bailey

14. Sonny DesVerger

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report?

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens?

22. Clearview Ranch

23. The Pat McGuire Case

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter

26. The Bridge Abduction

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land?

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

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Pages

414

Binding Type

Paperback Perfect Bound

Interior Color

Color

Dimensions

A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

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There have been many claims of UFO landings and encounters with alien entities since 1947 and while some such as that of Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton may be well known they were not the first and certainly not the best incidents. Encounter claims are a world wide phenomenon and not confined to the United States. After 50 years of the CE3K/Alien Entity Study, For this fifth book looking at CE3K/AE reports Terry Hooper has chosen some of the best and least known reports as well as some that might be known but adding much detail; Aveley, Ewloe, Kingfield and others deserve to be better known as does the case of Elsie Oakensen, Bronte Lloyd, Chapters include:

The Buckfastleigh Mystery

The Jose C. Higgins Close Encounter 1947

The 1973 Onilson Patero UFO encounter/Abduction Case

Villa Santina 1947

Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969

The Näslund and Nilsson Encounters

Mrs. Church and the Green ‘Japanese’

Never Trust Child Witnesses?

Starry, Starry Night -The Silbury Hill Encounter

The 1977 Lindley, New York UFO Incidents

The Boy Who Encountered Creatures At Vilhelmina

Just The Daily Drive Home From Work

The “Is That It Then?” Reports

The Bronte Lloyd Lost Encounter

The Puchetta Encounter

Ronald Wildman: A Man “Muddled Up About Time”

The Kingfield Enigma

The Lorry Driver

What Was At The Window?

The Multi-Witness Abduction That Did Not Happen -But It Did

The Shamrock Cafe Abduction -The Best UK Case?

Lynda Jones: The Abduction Ufology Knew About -Sort Of

What Happened At Black Brook Farm?

The “Mince Pies” Martians

There Was Missing Time and more

If you want to read factual, researched accounts rather than fiction then this book will educate you on these contacts -many ignored by Ufology, mishandled or plain ignored.

Core File Started -Finishing all the other pages next!

2026-04-18T15:16:00.000-07:00

All of the 24pp lettered pages for Special Globe Guard 1 have now been cleaned, resized and are in a core file waiting for me to finish the rest of the pages.

I now have a portable A3 scanner which takes up no space but should allow me to go back to A3 original pages. I will let you know if the scanner is any good.

11.00 hrs UK Time -update

2026-04-18T02:56:00.000-07:00

And views stand at...

24,150

If 1% of those viewers want to buy some comics my online store link is on the right!

Update

1500hrsUK total views 36,778

So I hope that answers questions once and for all 😁

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Schwarze Laterne Schwarzwald Schwarzer Tod

2026-04-17T17:00:00.000-07:00

"What are your average daily views?"

2026-04-17T15:13:00.000-07:00

I am absolutely positive I covered this already but...

"What are your average daily views?" The following obviously excludes China which rarely gets a look in when it coms to Blogger stats:

Today15, 239

Yesterday14, 692

24 pages lettered...who says I deserve a salary?

2026-04-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

I started at 12 noon and it is 2130 hrs and I have just finished lettering 24pp of the Special Globe Guard 1. Tomorrow I will tidy up the pages and resize and put into a core file. Then I need to complete the art for the rest of the book.

Then, when finished, I can start on Black Tower Super Heroes 3: Chronal War

The "Hooper Defenestration Incident"

2026-04-17T04:15:00.000-07:00

Oh come on!

After yesterday's post two former editors ("I don't read CBO!") have claimed that they were the editors "held out a window" by me.

Which would make a total of five former UK comic people who have claimed that it was them!!!

I am sat here laughing because I KNOW the truth.

Thank you to those individuals who made me snort coffee through my nose in laughter.

Absolute Scarecrow Will Give You Nightmares | Absolute Batman

2026-04-16T15:23:17.892-07:00

Maybe I Did. Maybe I didn't. But I Probably Did

2026-04-16T12:23:00.000-07:00

For the last 30 years there has been a rumour, then a statement from someone who walked into the office that I held a certain editor at Marvel UK out of a window.

So let me tell you now, as a statement of fact: yes I did. The person who walked into the room took one look and left. I had travelled 200 miles to get to Marvel UK offices to find that the editor in question had decided to waste my time. Not phone me to save me the expense of the trip and to not waste my time.

Still, I decided to be diplomatic as the man showed that he was not fit to clean outa toilet bowl. Minute after minute dragged on as he proved himself an incompetent ass and he even tried to impress me by telling me all of the titles he had edited...but had not lasted very long. He criticised everyone from "hack" Leonardo da Vimci and what a crap artist he was to showing me drawers of samples sent to him that were incredible but he had rejected every one of the artists because "They aren't getting past me" -yeah I spaced out at that point.

I know it was a hot day so the windows were open and after 25 minutes I suggested he "take in some fresh air" and explained to him why he was not fit to run anything and that he needed to start respecting creators not deliberately block them from getting work -which he told me he was doing.

I was a "tad" angry. There was a heavy fire door that was stuck for some reason and I... well, I pulled it off its hinges and gave it to a staffer.

The fella vanished from comics, no surprise, and he even told someone the story about "the mad bearded bastard" who hung him out a window.

Now, regarding the real pain in the ass small press publisher who annoyed everyone: I did NOT throw him in the River Thames 0that started out as a joke in Zine Zone which people took to be a factual account.

In every story there are two sides but you know you are right when certain people only give the negative side of things and point the finger at you!

It was 1997..or 1998...uh, maybe 1999

2026-04-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

No names because...well, because.

I was asked today what exactly happened in 1998 (it was 1997, 1998 or 1999!) when a certain Marvel Comics executive was visiting the UK and very unexpectedly met him ay a mutual acquaintances in London. Well, I had been to Marvel UK and Egmont and the acquaintance introduced me to the Marvel person.

We were talking and I mentioned the fact that Marvel titles (I was buying 97% of them at the time) had nose dived in quality after Jim Shooter left (I mention this as people have said that it was Jim I met; it was not) and the exec started quoting dropping sales figures like a human calculator; what sales were during Shooter's time and what they were now. So I asked the simple question as a Marvel fan: why not bring back Shooter? It was a rather uncomfortable question apparently. I was told that, honestly, people working for Marvel and who did not actually like a person doing their job to get comics out on time and maintain continuity had conspired to get rid of him. "It was week management. They let work for hire people pressure them and when they folded they realised it was a bad decision. It went from great selling titles to crap. The way Shooter was treated was disgusting but it was too late. The rats who went after Shooter also jumped ship."

Sadly, the demise of comics in the US as well as the UK can be seen from the point where fan boys started getting jobs in comics and those who knew their work and had helped sell comics for decades were pushed aside. If you know your comics history you know the people and despite producing some great comics they should never have become the people who were put in charge.

I think the Marvel man demonstrated how things went quite well. He raised his hand and moved it in a straight line "This is under Shooter" he said. He then suddenly dropped his hand. "That was the week after Shooter left!"

Small Press Day 2026

2026-04-16T06:40:00.000-07:00

Join us on Saturday 25th July for Small Press Day 2026; a hybrid SPD with events in-store and online – championing self-publishing, DIY culture, and grassroots comics across the U.K and Ireland and the internet.

HOW TO TAKE PART IN-PERSON

Want to host an event in a shop or venue? All the details of how to here

Have your Small Press Day event all figured out? Use our submissions form here!

HOW TO TAKE PART ONLINE

Join us on Bluesky with #SmallPressDay

Calling all artists, writers, and shops – showcase your small press publications! Continuing a tradition that started in 2020, our all-day social media SPD celebration is back on Bluesky.

Join us posting throughout the day and share your creations, recommendations, and small press stock with photos, videos, and all-important webstores and purchase links. We’ll be using the hashtag #SmallPressDay to connect, platform, and amplify all your small press amazingness. *

Join us to take part, to champion small press, and to reach a wider audience – and lets spread SPD love across the world wide web.

* We reserve the right not to promote content/publications that may be considered inappropriate or harmful to our community. More info here.

The "Combined Universe" Approach

2026-04-15T13:08:00.000-07:00

There is a way that I can get through a lot of long term projects that I am obviously never going to complete in full length as I intended.

The Combined Universe. Yes, everything published by Black Tower IS in the same "comic universe" and in the past D-Gruppe has visited UK heroes for a barbeque (The Trial) and heroes have popped up in stories featuring Western heroes.

Basically, in future books will feature long term failed projects stories such as the "lost in space" D-Gruppe members returning to Earth just as The Prof or Xendragon face the latest supernatural threat or the Avenger faces a new problem. It's "pick n mix"!

It also means I should keep future books to Comic Album format and concentrate on those rather than do a Prof book or a separate D-Gruppe book.

The planned Special Globe Guard albums are all scanned and just need lettering for 3 out of the four and art finished up for issue 1.

Time For A Rest?

2026-04-15T12:25:00.000-07:00

One more graphic novel out of the way and time for as rest....

Until tomorrow when I need to finish up some art and that will form the next book but not a graphic novel more comic album.

For those still confused Comic Album is a European term but should be well enough known by now. It is usually a book of 48-90 pages. Think Cinebook titles. A graphic novel is a book of over 100 pages and should not be confused with trade paperbacks which collect together comic series issues.

Having written "not a graphic novel" I have said that before but if you don't use a script a story can take off...fast!

Can You Name Them?

2026-04-15T12:03:00.000-07:00

Fast Forward! Marvel Legends Fanstream APRIL 2026 X-Men Spider-Man Rivals Alpha Flight More!

2026-04-15T11:18:00.000-07:00