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FeaturesComic Book Guy: Let's Get Wasted
Even those who can’t read know that you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to issue #4 of Bad Press Ltd’s Wasted yo... Read more »| 11 Jun 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Thunderbolts
In the comic book world there are staple story arcs that just continue to work, whether this may be a cross-over event featuring two favourite characters com... Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: We Could Be Heroes
All good things must come to an end, preferably sooner if they haven’t been good for a while, as May saw American network NBC cancel their once huge He... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: The L-Team
It’s never a great idea to double-cross a team of crack soldiers each with their own specialist abilities, yet clandestine agencies continue to fall fo... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Out of the Darkness
This week in the Marvel universe saw the end of an event continually pushed as ‘seven years in the making’. The four-part Siege focused on Norman... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Rise of the Graphic Novel
Bob Dylan’s The times they are a changing choruses slowly over the opening credits of The Watchmen, before crime fighters in slightly camp-looking cost... Read more »| 17 May 2010
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Tell Me a Story...
Stories and tales, poems and ceilidhs, Music and dancing and opera for babies! There's a lot going on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
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All's Right at Aye Write!
The Aye Write! festival is back, with as strong a lineup as ever. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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Keep Carrying Your Poems...
Carry a Poem has been going on since the start of February - and there's plenty more goodies to come. Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
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"I Don't Feel Like a Natural..."
Dan Rhodes might not feel gifted, but now that his new novel is here, it's his readers who'll be the judge... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
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The State of Books to Come
What's happening in the literary scene in 2010? Let's have a look... Read more »| 29 Dec 2009 -
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A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
Stuck for something to buy a friend for Christmas? Info-packed, entertaining, and easy to get hold of, you can hardly go wrong with a book. Here are some possible choices, all fresh and on the shelves of your local vendor now! Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
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Please Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Bloody Women: Read the first chapter here
"Forty minutes later I straddled Johnny in the passenger seat of his Golf with no pants on." Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Cargo Publishing: A Young Upstart
Mark Buckland set up Cargo Publishing this August with the goal of "putting a firework up the arse of Scottish literature". No small feat for a 22 year old. How did he do it? Read on. Read more »| 26 Oct 2009