2013 March | Comic Conventions

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NICE website is LIVE Tickets available now

Nice have launched their website and tickets are available now. Daily tickets £15 and weekend passes £25. Personally this is one of few conventions I will probably go to this year. Last year was quiet, being the 1st one, but I did enjoy meeting up with friends and chilling with them. If you want to

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Sledgehammer 44 #1 Review

Published by Dark Horse Comics Mike Mignola    story and cover John Arcudi       story Jason Latour      art Dave Stewart     colours and cover   Hailed as Mike Mignola’s Iron Man, Sledgehammer  44 is about a troop of American soldiers in France in 1944 responsible for ‘project Epimetheus’. Quickly dubbed ‘Sledgehammer’,

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Age of Ultron #2 Review

Published by Marvel Brian Michael Bendis          Writer Bryan Hitch                        Penciler Paul Neary                         Inker Paul Mounts                      Colourist   The next Marvel event, this book starts off in a post-apocalyptic world

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Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #6 Review

Published by DC Comics Len Wein                           Writer Jae Lee                              Artist John Workman                    Letterer June Chung                        Colourist   This is

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The Walking Dead #108 Review

Published by Image Comics with Skybound Entertainment Robert Kirkman                Writer and Creator Charlie Adlard                   Pencils and Inks Cliff Rathburn                    Grey Tones Rus Wooton                     Letters   OK I have something to admit.

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Lakes International Comic Art Festival reveals more of the writers and artists who will star at this year’s festival

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has revealed more of the writers and artists who will be taking part in the event later this year. The festival, which will run from 18-20 October 2013 in Kendal in Cumbria, has a guest list running to more than 50 writers and artists from the United States, Europe,

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London Film & Comic Con surpasses expectations already…

Oddly enough, in almost stark contrast to the post about last weekend’s MCM ‘Comic Con’ in Birmingham, there has been an announcement by LFACC that has really caught our attention this week.  An event, similar in approach to the MCM events, that is really more well known for international movie and TV stars has been

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Demoncon 5 five times as good

The Grinning Demon in Maidstone regularly hold a small comic convention. And while it’s obviously not the size of LSCC it had a lot of “heart”. As you’d expect, these don’t attract huge floods of people but that doesn’t stop the show from being awesome. This was my first year attending, and while it wouldn’t be

MCM put the ‘con’ into Comic Con

One of the oldest events in my own calendar returned to its annual home at the NEC today, the original Memorabilia show.  For the second year in a row, they also tagged on what they called the ‘MCM Birmingham Comic Con’, broadly advertising that entrance was free to the comic con in line with entrance

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Melksham is FULLY FUNDED

Well well well, who would have thought it, Melksham Comic Con is funded. They set themselves a goal of £3500 and have reached it with a few days to spare. You can still pledge and have 30 hours of this post to do so. Click here to pledge Congrats to Hayley for this amazing success.