It’s Friday and that means time for another round up of news and links spotted over the last few days as Richard and Joe bring you Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense): D’oh! Simpsons Comics to end The long-running Simpsons may be about to enter its thirtieth season on TV, but the also long-lived and successful Simpsons...

It’s time for the man with the roving microphone, Alex Fitch, to update us on the latest episode of his excellent Panel Borders podcast; as ever for more details and to check out a pile of previous shows, check the Panel Borders site. Panel Borders: 2000AD Summer Special, broadcast at 5.30pm, Wed 1st Aug on...

2036 Origin Unknown, Directed by Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull, Starring Katee Sackhoff, Ray Fearon, Julie Cox, Steven Cree Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson (Katee Sackhoff) is one of the last of a dying breed – what used to be a highly qualified, highly trained role that took years of study and experience to achieve, a mission controller for...

It’s Friday again and that means time for Richard and Joe to update you with some news and links spotted over the last few days with another Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense)! Shazam! Trailer drops The trailer for DC’s forthcoming Shazam movie (or simply Captain Marvel as he is to those of us of a certain...

Forbidden Planet International in Wolverhampton is turning twenty! And they are celebrating with an anniversary party on August 4th: “To celebrate the Wolverhampton shop’s 20th anniversary, we will be having a party in the store. Bring your kids, bring your comic-deficient friends, bring your rich-and-reluctant parents and come join us for some sweet events. We’ve got plenty...

The Art of Solo, a Star Wars Story, Phil Szostak, Abrams Books I think it is fair to say that the Solo movie underperformed dreadfully at the box office (relative to other Star Wars films, at least). There were a lot of factors involved – closeness to the release of The Last Jedi and Infinity...

It Lives (aka Twenty-Twenty Four), Directed by Richard Mundy, Starring Andrew Kinsler, Peter McCrohon, Second Sight Roy (Andrew Kinsler) is a scientist, although sometimes in his unusual job he feels less like a qualified scientist and more like a hi-tech janitor. Roy’s job? Maintaining the systems in a deep subterranean bunker, a technological refuge for...

The Beano: 80 Years of Fun Box Set, DC Thomson The Beano has now been in print for an astonishing eighty years. In the fickle world of comics and publishing, this is nothing short of an incredible achievement; entire generations of happy kids have grown up reading the Bash Street Kids, Little Plum, Dennis the...

Friday again? Well then it’s probably time for Richard and Joe have a little look see at all the comics news that they’ve noticed this week....

The thirty second Arthur C Clarke Award – the UK’s most presitgious celebration of written science fiction – took place in a ceremony in the famous Foyles bookstore in London last night, with Anne Charnock winning for Dreams Before the Start of Time, published by 47North. “Humanity’s attitudes to reproduction have been core to science...