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The Beano

The Beano

27 Nov 2008

As a wee nipper there wasn’t a more exciting day of the week than ‘Beano day’, when your local newsagent would drop a copy of the cartoon compendium onto your doormat alongside your parent’s newspaper. Often rapidly devoured before heading to school…

Also Published - 5 Auto-Biographies

27 Nov 2008

Ted Turner - Call Me Ted The media mogul and ex-husband of Jane Fonda talks about family tragedy, CNN, the America’s Cup and his controversial former missus. Sphere . Diahann Carroll - The Legs are the Last to Go Subtitled ‘Ageing, Acting…

Charlie Owen - Bravo Jubilee

Charlie Owen - Bravo Jubilee

(2 stars)27 Nov 2008

SOCIAL DRAMA Copper-turned-crime writer Charlie Owen’s third novel is another retro-fitted 1970s police procedural set in a grim Manchester overspill named Handstead aka Horse’s Arse. Picking up the year after the previous book, Foxtrot Oscar, this…

Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

CRIME There couldn’t be a better marriage of writer and character than Irish bad boy Garth Ennis and lone vigilante Frank Castle, teaming up with regular artistic partner Steve Dillon for an often irreverent but always brutal and bloody reboot. This…

Matt Fraction & Ariel Olivetti - Punisher War Journal: Civil War

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

CRIME The latest incarnation of the Punisher throws him back into the middle of Marvel continuity. Castle usually operates on the fringes of society but the scale of the Superhero Registration Act is too big for even the Punisher to ignore. Never one…

Neil Rafferty and Paul Stokes - Halfwit Nation

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

HUMOUR While Private Eye and The Onion remain the cornerstones of written news satire in print and online respectively, and Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You keep our square eyes tearing, the joyous silliness of spoofing website The Daily…

Nick Brownlee - Bait

Nick Brownlee - Bait

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

CRIME NOVEL In the opening scene of this high-octane crime debut, a victim is eviscerated on a boat while still alive, his steaming innards and gutted body tossed overboard. Welcome to the flipside of African crime fiction where instead of Precious…

Pat Mills & Various - Punisher: Eternal War

Pat Mills & Various - Punisher: Eternal War

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

CRIME During the 80s the Punisher was one of Marvel’s biggest stars, with multiple tiles and a 1989 movie (starring Dolph Lundgren). In Eternal War we get more tales from the archives as The Punisher hits his stride in terms of popularity. The main…

Rod Stoneman - Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Rod Stoneman - Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

POLITICAL STUDY On its release in 2003, a documentary that fortuitously caught the coup ousting Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for all of a weekend, caused a furore in that country and elsewhere for its apparent bias. Rod Stoneman was the executive…

Tattoo

The big picture: Tattoos

27 Nov 2008

Robots, Hello Kittys, an Etch A Sketch screen, skulls covering an entire back … this fortnight, we’ve mostly been ogling Tattoo Soup, a new compendium of the world’s most unique tattoos. This comic strip was inked by tattoo artist Louis Molloy, from the…

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