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FeaturesComic Book Guy: Super-TV
*Spoiler* This past Friday in the US of A, Smallville came to the climax of its ten season run with less of a crescendo and more of a whimper, as fans whoop... Read more »| 18 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Grant Morrison double
Glaswegian comic book writer Grant Morrison is a born storyteller and it’s thanks to his creative vision that the mould of stagnant formula within comi... Read more »| 11 May 2011 -
FeaturesReleasing the Valve
Valve is a new literary journal, and an intriguing experiment. The experiment part is that it’s been created by students of a Strathclyde University class aimed at forming a journal for new writing. Got that? Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Free Comic Book Day
This Saturday 7 May is a very auspicious day in the comic book calendar: it is Free Comic Book Day, held the first Saturday of every may since 2002. This doe... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: A Royal Kerching
Mugs, ashtrays, tea towels, lighters, cottage cream fudge, pens, pencils, scrapbooks, t-shirts, banners, books, DVDs, dress up dolls, cup cake toppers, lifes... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Feisty and fearless, feminist and ferocious, adventurer, investigator and collector of rare artefacts… This is not the gun-toting, hotpant adventures ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2011
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Comic Book Guy: The Weekend That Was Kapow! Comic Con 2011
This past weekend saw the inaugural Kapow! Comic Con bathed in weather normally reserved for its California counterpart. Shame then, it was indoors. But ther... Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
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Glen Duncan: The Wolf Returns
Why would an acclaimed literary author write a book about werewolves and vampires? Why not, asks Glen Duncan Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Weekend That Was WonderCon 2011
The organisers of WonderCon are no fools and on 1 April they celebrated their 25th anniversary as one of the leading comic book and arts conventions. The 201... Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Kapow! Comic Con
Some people just don’t know when to stop. Not content with being the biggest selling British comic book writer of the last decade, spearheading his cre... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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New Books by the Cargo Crate
New publishing ‘label’ Cargo Crate describes itself as Scotland’s first eBook/print-on-demand publisher, and it has big ambitions for the future of ‘the book’ Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
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Some Standouts at StAnza
Want to learn more about poetry in one fell swoop? Fancy a trip to St Andrews? Read on... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
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Doug Johnstone: Whisky Galore, And A Wee Bit More
Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Man Who Would Be Superman
Recently it was announced that the very English Henry Cavill of Tudors fame would don the blue tights, then slip the red underwear to become the Man of Steel... Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
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Mills & Boon: 'I Read These, So You Don't Have To'
Valentine's Day is coming up, so why don't you read one of Mills and Boon's romance novels? Because of everything that follows, that's why not Read more »| 01 Feb 2011