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The Return Of Space Oddities And What's Up With CLiNT?

Published Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:00:57 -0500

Bleeding Cool has covered issues regarding the Space Oddities feature in the magazine CLiNT. An open spot, Millar put an open call out for short stories from new creators to run in each issue. He publicly bought a first wave of stories, which were published. He then stated he would buy a second wave. Which were… not. A third wave of submissions were not used at all.

A few years later, some of the submitters have got organised. And have launched a Kickstarter to get their stories published in print as SPOD! Oddities from Space.

There have also been rumours as to the longevity of CLiNT itself. I hadn't been able to get a response from Titan Comics on e-mail. And at the pub last night, people from Titan were very vocally not commenting.

The last issue came out in May, and that was rather late. There is one issue publicly scheduled, a film special, in August, but there will be no issue on the stands when the Kick Ass 2 movie is out. Websites, twitter feeds and the like haven't been updated and the Facebook page is full of subscribers complaining about the schedule.

CLiNT was intended as a magazine for the UK newsstand, but didn't find its feet in supermarkets and, aside from WH Smiths, didn't have the success expected by its celebrity name line-up, especially as its schedule became more erratic. It did however do well in comic book stores. But part of its role was to support the Kapow! comic convention, also funded by Titan's owner Nick Landau, and when that went away this year, there seemed to be less of a role for the magazine, even as Titan Comics launches its own line of creator owned comics.

However, it is a well established brand and there's no reason it couldn't be revived at any time for a third volume.

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