Coming in February. 1 story 2 crimes 3 points of view 9 knives And a very big gun “A new Auchterlounie book? Don’t miss it!” Kurt Busiek, Astro City, The Avengers, Marvels etc “A twisty crime concoction, deftly layered & cleverly told. Really delicious.” Charles Ardai, Founder - Hard Case Crime

Whaaaat....?

Make a Bond movie casual CADBURYFINGER

Back when there were only three or four tv channels and the Radio Times only covered the BBC they had loads of room in their pages for illustrations and detailed listings [try to ignore obligatory mentions of Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile]

As fun as Christmas Day is, it's mostly manic from end to end, so its Boxing Day where i get to proper nose through my presents and play with my toys - like this mostly complete MICRONAUTS Battle Cruiser. Pew pew pew!

Drexil is using his powers to experiment with people using sensory deprivation... Premiere: THE OMEGA FACTOR (1979) 9:05pm 🌌 #JamesHazeldine #LouiseJameson #JohnCarlise 'After-Image' #TPTVsubtitles

Make a Bond movie casual PLENTY OF TIME TO DIE NO RUSH

I guess my phone did an update recently. The camera has started doing this... Not sure what the benefit of a race/gender profiling camera is, but seems sinister, not to mention inaccurate.

Chilling out and watching THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD on iPlayer... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Obligatory Christmas loot pic! 🎁🎄💕

Merry Christmas, everyone. Goodnight x

A card John painted for the John M Burns Facebook group in 2022. Happy Christmas!

According to the 1977 Mighty Marvel Calendar on this day, Thundra debuted in Fantastic Four 129 (1972) #thundra #fantasticfour #marvelcomics #mightmarvelcalendar #commission #patreon

Usually James's Advent Calendar Game is a bit of silly fun y'know? Bit of a lark. Bit of a laff. But this has been a voyage into the heart of darkness. The horror. The horror. If you've been affected by issues raised by James's Advent Calendar this year help is available... You're not alone.

"You there!" called Scrooge, "What day is it?" "Why, it's Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour's 2025 Review podcast release day, sir!" That's right; join Rich & I as we countdown our Top 5 Albums, TV Shows, and Movies of 2025. Will your favourites make our list? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

THE JUNIPER LODGE (coming in 2026) The next PAKLIS collection will include “They’ll Bury You Where You Stand!”, “Mushroom Bodies”, “An Empty Shell In The Ocean”, “The Juniper Lodge”, “Defects In The Hand-Drawn Line”, “Seventeen”, & “Quitting Comics.” Hardcover with a lot of extras.

Oh THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH is back! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The other comic I feel I have to read every year otherwise I feel I've failed at Christmas, is DC's CHRISTMAS WITH THE SUPERHEROES #2 I talked about Paul Chadwick's Superman story the other day, but this is an all-killer no filler anthology...

The two Christmas comics I have to read every year... Firstly, Will Eisner's THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, a slim volume collecting all of Eisner's Christmas themed Spirit strips. A really nice mix of tone in these stories, from light feelgood capers to dark contemplative parables...

Merry New Year! Its our NEVER SEEN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL... TRADING PLACES [1983] a movie that made a huge impression on me as a teenager but I'd not need it in maybe 20 years, similarly Jenni had seen it but not for a long time, but Stacey had never seen it all. neverseenpod.podbean.com/e/never-seen...

Ah man... RIP Chris Rea www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

"And All Through The House..." written and drawn by Johnny Craig and coloured by Marie Severin pages 1-4

THE STARS MY DEGRADATION, Christmas On Depravity by Alan Moore and Steve Moore pgs 1-4

A few 2000AD Christmas covers - Mike McMahon, Kev O'Neill, Alan Davis

my first exposure to Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL was Richard Williams disturbing animated adaptation - I don't think I ever got past Marley's gaping maw...! youtu.be/ZTzyC9CZuOA?...

Why?

Comic book artist great Craig Hamilton is going through a rough patch. If you can help him out, he would greatly appreciate it. Please donate or repost. gofund.me/8e67035ee Green Lantern #55 (1994) @ronmarz.bsky.social story, Craig Hamilton art, Ray Snyder inks, with Steve Mattson & Albe Deguzman.

A Christmas story from me to you. www.jmdematteis.com/2025/12/the-...

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

UK comics great Martin Asbury’s cover for 1981’s “The Adventures Of Thin Lizzy”, a widely advertised greatest hits set. As part of the campaign, Asbury created other pieces including a press ad in April 16th 1981’s Smash Hits, with its gorgeous cartoon of Phil Lynott in his “just a cowboy” persona.

More evidence that Christmas was spookier than Halloween back in my youth. I remember this scaring the living shit out of me as a kid, especially Freddie Jones reading "In The Avu Observatory" by HG Welles. (Some episodes are on YouTube, check em out)

They are so very very close to getting it ... ...but they will never get there.

🎶 Falalalala-Lalalalaaa You lucky boys and girls....

In our Tinsel-tastic Twenty eighth issue Mark and John read the 1979 Beano Book, featuring Dennis The Menace, Minnie The Minx, The Bash Street Kids and almost no Biffo The Bear. Only one pound fifteen pence! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-34g63...

Merry Christmas from Axa and Mark X - by Enric Badia Romero

EX-MACHINA (from Christmas With The Superheroes #2) - written & pencilled by @paulchadwick.bsky.social, inks by John Nyberg - one of my all-time favourite Christmas comics, and an all-time favourite Superman story. Very low-key, intimate, and personal. pgs1-4

ONE CHRISTMAS DURING ETERNITY - by Alan Moore & Jesus Redondo - one of my favourite Future Shocks, very different to the standard. The line about "sitting in an expanding nest of wrapping paper" really resonated with me as a kid, one of the first times I remember really relating to a bit of prose

More kind words about my tarot shenanigans from my comics waifu @jenniegyllblad.bsky.social over on Mastodon 🥺💖

Every year @jenniegyllblad.bsky.social sends me a lovely classy Christmas card, but draws dicks all over it. This year she excelled herself. 3D with tracing paper jizz. She clearly didn't just toss this off...

Thanks to Stuart Vandal for this find! From Games Workshop's tabletop rpg magazine White Dwarf#85 (January 1987) – Carl Critchlow's “Thrud the Barbarian”. Thrud meets Judge Dredd…

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Spirou #923 Dupuis, 1955, Belgium Noël cover by André Franquin featuring Spirou et Fantasio.

PLEASE COPY OR SHARE THIS! University of Carnegie Mellon are doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out: cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH Christmas Specials Must ask my mum to save me some turkey dripping... In memory of Sean Lock youtu.be/TxIrlevrbeY?...

Just gone through the Christmas TV listings. There's a bunch of classic films on over the holidays that we've covered on @neverseenpod.bsky.social if you want to catch up... 20th Ch4 11:50 Apocalypse Now BBC1 00:05 Planes Trains & Automobiles 24th ITV2 18:55 Uncle Buck 25th BBC2 21:15 Jaws 1/2

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! 🎄🪓 Art by Johnny Craig

The Creature From The Id is one of my favourite sci-fi monsters

I hit up the charity shop again today

Mignola’s DC Christmas Card from ‘89 (via @gerryturnbull.bsky.social )