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Si Spurrier's instructions: LITTLE NEMO Little Nemo was quite simply one of the Best Things Ever Quite apart from being an early explorer of the narrative medium, the amount of sheer invention, humour and creepiness pumped into it by Winsor McCay means it's still a rollicking read today And it's fucking beautiful to look at[...]

This week's challenge from Si Spurrier; "Jenny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore A river hag, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them She was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth. She is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters similar[...]

This week's challenge from Si Spurrier; This week's Paragon Of Class is a swashbuckling space adventurer from the pages of Planet Comics whose name, believe it or not, is the least mind-boggling of the Naughty Nuances which accompanied his improbable adventures. Ingredients: a space-jockey (fnar!) in a tight skirt (hyuk!) carrying a bulbous weapon (quak!), shooting (yuk-yuk!)[...]

This week's challenge from Si Spurrier; A simple, classic Golden Age character this week, to avoid Batshit Burnout That said, this guy's not without his very own whiff of Chiroptera cack: "The Red Bee's secret identity is Rick Raleigh, assistant district attorney in Superior City, Oregon His superhero modus operandi is to put on a red and[...]

The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the

The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the

The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the

SpurrierDelight: Si Spurrier teases a new Avatar webcomic to follow Freakangels, and to run along side his Crossed: Wish You Were Here webcomic for Avatar. SynergyDelight: "Fresh Ink!" from Attack Of The Show and and G4TV.com's "Fresh Ink! Online" with Blair Butler are adding Graphic.Ly, so that viewers can read one of the comics featured[...]

Avatar are to launch a new weekly webcomic in October, based on Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows' Crossed. Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier (Gutsville, X-Men) and Javier Barreno (Crossed Family Values) will be announced at Phoenix Comic Con and the new website hosting the free weekly Crossed episodes will be at www.crossedcomic.com[...]

Some of you know him for his very sweary Bleeding Cool column Short & Curlies. Well now he seems to be aping the title of another Bleeding Cool

BrainFart: I know I've reached middle-age because I've just bought six bottles of wine and don't intend to drink any of them, because they look better in

BrainFart: All-righty-then.  Let's talk POPE. His pointy-headed Holiness descends upon these fair isles (there's got to be an "aisles" pun there, but this

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Okay…  Back to last week's ongoing Super-Heroic Super-Ramble. CATCHUP CORNER: You'll recall we concluded -- using the

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Steroidal Science-Powered Archetype of Teenage America's Wishful-Vision-Of-Perfect-Adulthood seeks new role, new

News From The SpurSphere: Forgive me dipping oh-so-briefly into the horrors of Social Politics -- specifically that least divisive of all issues, ho ho

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: "Mind the gap!" So shrieketh the subway-based baddie in underrated 70's schlock horror flick Death Line, which is on my

Kultcha: Terrible movies can save us all from an Evil Future.  Behold My Tortured Logic: See, a couple of Interesting Viewing Experiences this week have

Kultcha: Overheard conversation between Angry Teacher and Smarmy Little 8-yr-old Schoolkid Bastard, during school-trip to Cultural/Historical Motherlode

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Like a sluttish protein syruping itself into the Primordial Cell, Google continues to invade my Working Routine. "I'm vital

This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: ...Having the cruel wobbly knife of gender inequality rammed-home with a corkscrew twist. During a recent visit to a

BrainFart: Much has been made, in recent years, of the ubiquitous MetaFiction Movement. Technically that's any piece of narrative which wears its Not

News From The Spursphere: I'm scum. I'm a wart-weasel of the very worst ilk.  I've deserted you, my plucky lovetumours, for three long weeks, and can only

I Fakt You, Right In The Face: Amazing and Helpful news from the world of Real Actual Science! We've all seen crazed labfreaks forcing innocent animals

The Keyboard Continues To Be My FuckMonkey: COMICS! Convention season, I'm reliably informed, is In Full Swing.  Here then is a ludicrously tangential

(Back By Popular Demand, You Fuckers) -- This Week I Have Mostly Been Hating: ...the subconscious propensity for the human brain to absorb external

BrainFart: Dear Fatties Of A Certain Kind: it is my sad duty to inform you that wearing Sportswear doesn't actually mean you're Doing Sports.  Weight

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: NOVELWATCH: As I type this, I'm about two weeks clear of finishing my next novel.  (That's for any given, ill-defined value

BRAINFART: I long to live in a world in which “toilet rolls” are a complex Acrobatic Manoeuvre reserved for an extremely specialist Olympics Event, rather

BrainFart: I get a tiny flutter of pleasure whenever I find a typo in a professionally published novel.  I feel it's important that you know this about

Kultcha: Quezon City: most populous berg in the Already-Pretty-Fucking-Teeming Philippines, where overworked and creatively-stunted businessmen have taken