So, with a perfect opportunity to start fresh – and turn a new page on my life in comics, I just wanted to share some plans for the future – and open the floor to suggestions for the forthcoming columns from ‘Across the Pond’. Is there anything you’d really like...

Judge (Joseph) Dredd’s strip in the British comic 2000AD is the publication’s longest running, first seen in the second issue in 1977. The premise: in a dark and dangerous future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner, Dredd and his fellow...

In the modern landscape of comics nerdery and production, a place so fiercely doused in ‘cool’ from top to bottom, where heroes and heroines sing and dance – and excitable nerds rigorously ride their paper waves, I ask… Is there enough free ‘gutter-space’ for lightning to...

Doctor Who began in 1963 and dazzled a UK TV audience immediately.  Seven actors played the Doctor on TV before the show was sadly dropped in 1989 after a very strong but, waning  first run.   Following a (publicly demanded) TV movie in 1996 – starring Paul McGann – the TV...

  After almost 3 weeks with no access to comics, no sign of comics, no comics nerdery nor banta, no internet and no mobile device – my graphic, fictional requirements were boiling over and my (openly guilty) addiction to sequential art was taking over my soul… or something.   My...

Still in Africa and with a trip to Cape-Town right around the corner (in which I’ll hunt down the local Comic shops if it kills me – and report back with some tantalizing, transatlantic gossip and goodness), I’m currently sitting at a strange computer in a stranger’s home...

This week, Across The Pond is coming to you from a different continent, a different place in the world – where the landscape is as rugged as the farm hands whom work it – and the heart of the earth itself, floods the veins of all whom walk upon it.  I’m in Africa, or (more...

Part of me thought initially that DC’s recent reboot was first born, in preparation for a crossover with Marvel… crazy right?  Marvellous, Marvel’s, magnificent men and women finding themselves in a ‘stand-off’ with dirty DC’s, dangerous, dudes and dames....

Georges Prosper Remi – probably better known under pen name – Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist renowned for his creation ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ – which he wrote and illustrated between 1929 and 1983 – when he sadly passed on. His ‘Euro...

If Captain Britain vanished from the red pages of Marvel without a trace, would anyone (Stateside) care? Or even notice?! With Disney’s (fairly) recent decision that “all Marvel Superheroes must originate in the United States” we may well see that happen very soon – and only...

On a crisp, autumn night in the city – a forgotten piece of British comics history is waiting patiently for my arrival at London’s kooky Cartoon Museum, and I’m rushing from my day job to make it in time. Doctor Who is poised to peak his historical head over the shoulders of one of...

Arguably the most recognizable figure in popular culture, transcending generations and outliving his creators – one of (maybe) 3 fictional characters from the realm of comic books whom proudly parade as household names across the world. In comics, the series ‘Superman:- The Man of...

To a Great-British Audience, Jonathan Ross (OBE) is synonymous with belly laughs and banter as - the voice of Friday nights on his, self-titled/award-winning talk show “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross” (Kind of, the British Late Show).  He also hosted a radio show for the BBC and...