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Numbercrunching: CLiNT #4 With Stewart Lee And Steve Yeowell

Published Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:00:41 -0600

This is the one. This is the issue of CLiNT that a lot more people I know will be picking up. Because this is the copy of CLiNT with Stewart Lee and Steve Yeowell's strip , The Property. So, Numbercrunching it is. And, for an added bonus, a new strip by Mark's friend and broadcaster, Muriel Gray in the newcomers' slot.

Cost: £3.99

Pages of comics: 69. Ho ho.

Pages of comics that haven't seen print before: 44

That's more than usual: Due to having the first few pages of Kick Ass 2 #2 and Nemesis #4, not yet published by Marvel.

So when certain websites run "exclusive previews" of Kick Ass and Nemesis… they'll have already been seen by ten thousand Brits first, yes,

Nice. I know.

More numbercrunching please. Oh sorry.

Number of penises: 1

Number of fucks: 11

Best bits in the new comics: A really decently framed opener to Kick Ass 2, with the added realisation that super hero costumes aren't really much of a disguise, as the new superteam have their first meeting. Rex Royd's inner turmoil expressed through trans dimensional dreaming is rather touching. Oh and it sets up a confrontation with the Bilderberg group which just excites my inner Jon Ronson. Stewart Lee and Steve Yeowell's piece, The Project feels like one of the creepier horror stories from the eighties Eagle, with a touch of Roald Dahl, that seems thouroughly steeped in the likely reader's culture, even if as Stewart says, Mark edited all the Marvel injokes out of it.

Worst bits in the new comics: Nemesis feels far too one note – it does what Rex Royd does but without the bizarreness that keeps it unpredictable. Also I'm not sure if Muriel Gray counts as new talent for the end strip, though admittedly she hasn't had a comic published before. It's like one of the more flippant Future Shocks, and tackles a similar topic to The Project but without the depth of the former.

Weirdest bits in the mag: The credit for Peep Show in the David Mitchell min-interview being 4od.com not Channel 4. That the article on magicians who died on the job not even mentioning Harry Houdini. And the wordless ending to The Project that ripped me right back to The Invisibles #1.

Slight scheduling concerns; Kick Ass 2 is ahead of US schedule again and has another issue out in three weeks. Are we goign to run out of Kick Ass 2 if CLiNT keeps up a regular four weekly schedule? We're also caught up with Turf and ahead on Nemesis now. Will Superior arrive sooner than expected perhaps and bump one or two other others out for a month while they play catch up? Might we even see The Unfunnies?

Might we? The magazine gives us the answer. As of issue 5, CLiNT will be running Garth Ennis and Amanda Conner's The Pro. Feels like perfect CLiNT fodder to me.

Bits of news: Muriel Gray and Stewart Lee will be writing a longer form comic for CLiNT next year. David Mitchell is writing a novel and expects an eight series of Peep Show. And Eli Roth prefers Batman over James Bond.

SO what do we know? CLiNT is becoming an actual magazine. There are still some feints – the articles about people that pretend to be interviews by compiling responses to oter interviews,

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