Devilishly Childish

[Charles Rocketboy]

The worst thing about Devilchild III is that bloody cliffhanger so I've got to wait another bloody year to find out what happens. Arrrrrrg. And there's none of the short-stories that was in Volumes I and II, which is a pity- Sully's Skeleton Army was pure class. Andy Winter's doing a new comic made up entirely of such stories though, so that's good.

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Recommended small-press titles? Once again, I say the Twelve (based on the labours of Herakles) and Pirates anthology titles from the Accent UK folks, and there's Commercial Suicide. Which is incredibly funny, but with stories like featuring, and I quote, "Sigmund Freud in S&M gear fighting international terrorism with only radical psychoanalysis" you can see where their name comes from. But it has a Buffy piss-take where a typo in the prophecies has resulted in the vampire-fighting Blondie the Brick Layer (with her mentor Giles- the Gaffer), so that's all good.

There's also Nabiel Kanan's mini-series The Drowners (which, despite his un-updated website, was completed w/ issue 4 last year) and his graphic-novel The Birthday Riots, with politics, drama, staying true to your causes & word and a lovely big riot at the end.

There's also a really disturbing little one-shot called Attic I bought a few years ago. It starts off with mutilated dolls and psychologically screwed-up people, and then just gets nastier. I loved it. Picked it up from Sweatdrop, a site that sells small-press British-original manga. Not much besides Attic that I'm interested in, but it's a good idea and seems to work for the creators.

That enough recommendations for you?

[Regie]

A good start Rockets.

What else do you have...

[Charles Rocketboy]

Oh yeah, there's also Futurequake. And a new issue of BAM coming out with a Inspector Danish story and, according to the BAMblog, "a multi-national corporation taking over the franchise of governing Britain". (Gee, I wonder what that's a comment on...) And though he is across the pond and might not count, Stan Yan's Wang: The Big One tpb and its On-Campus Crusader predecessor comics are good for a laugh.

[Regie]

See - I knew there was more...

[andy winter]

Thanks for your lovely review Regie. It's been a good couple of days for Devilchild as we had a very nice review over at aintitcool.com, too – http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20859#17

The aim is to get the final Devilchild volume ("Deus") ready in time for next year's Brighton Expo. There will be new – non Devilchild-related – stuff from Moonface Press at both Brighton 2005 and Bristol 2006. The first of these is SHRIEK!, a US format anthology title featuring three stories, one of which – Tim Skinner, Total Wanker – is illustrated by Natalie Sandells (pencils) and Adrian Bamforth (inks).

Following that will be half-a-dozen one-shot US format comics in a variety of genres – there are a couple of offbeat superhero stories, a vampire detective tale, a football (soccer) story and two others that are barely past the planning stage yet.

Just thought I'd give you an update.

Andy

[Regie]

Andy! Thanks for that! I like the sound of everything you just mentioned, so keep me informed. Hell, I'm even intruged by the footie story, and I hate footie. Somehow I always liked Roy of the Rovers though.

Speaking of which - there's a programme on Radio 4 one morning next week about Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track. Can't remember what day, but a quick peruse of the Radio Times should sort that out.

[Charles Rocketboy]

Originally Posted by andy winter

There will be new – non Devilchild-related – stuff from Moonface Press at both Brighton 2005 and Bristol 2006. The first of these is SHRIEK!, a US format anthology title featuring three stories, one of which – Tim Skinner, Total Wanker – is illustrated by Natalie Sandells (pencils) and Adrian Bamforth (inks).

Following that will be half-a-dozen one-shot US format comics in a variety of genres – there are a couple of offbeat superhero stories, a vampire detective tale, a football (soccer) story and two others that are barely past the planning stage yet.

Hurrah! Hurrah! And hurrah again! All good stuff!

Is Shriek! an ongoing anthology or one-shot?

[andy winter]

Originally Posted by Charles Rocketboy

Hurrah! Hurrah! And hurrah again! All good stuff!

Is Shriek! an ongoing anthology or one-shot?

SHRIEK! will start off as a one-shot but if it does well there's a good chance I'll do more of them.

I'm going to be announcing details of the first three one-shots on the Devilchild website in the next few days.

[j_redington]

excellent stuff Andy, looking forward to Shriek!!

Shame I wont see you at Caption... hows things going with the little distraction?

to everyone else;
Check Out www.portentcomics.com if you want to see new guys giving it a go... we have some interesting stuff coming up - Violation #1 will finally hit at Brighton and we have had some good feedback from the script and a guest editor on that project, Violation is a dark, almost horror Super-power mini series... a thriller!
We have Elite coming soon, a good old fashioned NEW hero on the block story...

and most exciting is Rob & Ducky which will have a special mini comic zero issue out in the next month, and we will be launching issue 1 in Brighton along with the mini zero issue.

PLUS loads more titles worth checking out, like The Dead Woods, Cowboy Jack and Company

Anyway, looking forward to Devil Child 4, should be great!!

James
www.portentcomics.com
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/panel/

[andy winter]

Originally Posted by j_redington

excellent stuff Andy, looking forward to Shriek!!

Shame I wont see you at Caption... hows things going with the little distraction?www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/panel/

My wife could give birth to Winterchild II at any point between now and the beginning of September, so things are pretty exciting right now.

Here's hoping you enjoy Caption – looking forward to seeing Portent's new stuff.

Andy