Tops and Bottoms – 2nd April 2025. – Never Iron Anything

Morning,

I avoided the temptation to post yesterday with a slew of Tops being Star Trek comics from IDW. My logic being that April Fools’ Day jokes should be at least partially believable. Maybe next year when they come back with all new rubbish or the licence moves to Titan Comics (again).

Instead, we are back to our normal programming. Wednesday is new comic day so I’m trying to keep it to the mid-week, unless a work trip has been sat in some awful cafe or hotel room twiddling my thumbs.

First up. A big thanks to everyone who backed the new Tribute Press Kickstarter project. The project reached its last day on Monday and we did well I think. Especially when there were four books available. Some lessons have been learned that myself and Falpy may chat about in the future. Looking forward to you guys seeing the work we have all produced. Won’t be long now.

Meanwhile, over at the ACP this week we had the creative team behind the sci-fi/fantasy series ‘Tyrant Fall’, writer C. Brennan Knight, and artist Max Davenport on for a good chat. Max is a listener and his art will absolutely blow you away. We asked him what his dream project would be and he replied with ‘X-Men’, if anyone is reading from Marvel, employ that dude straight-fucking-away! The series has just launched its third issue Kickstarter so go over there and have a look.

Best Fanzine from the Past.

I managed to get issues 1-3 of the early eighties ‘Hellfire’ fanzine this weekend at the London Comic Mart for some reasonable prices. Produced by David Roach and Ian Jenkins these have some cracking comics, interviews and features. The first issue has an interview with Gary Leach and Alan Moore, issue 2 features David Lloyd and three John Ridgway.

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Frank Tieri is a writer who fits right in with street level and mutant characters at Marvel. I had missed this when it came out in the shops and found it in the new releases on the Marvel app. So much better than the other X-Crap we are seeing elsewhere at the company this tells a solid story and has each person speaking as the character should. Something that some other writers could pay closer attention to. The opening in the bar is great and should have a few of us old folks cheering!

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