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Grant Morrison's Captain Clyde was the comic book writer's first published superhero work, which they also drew. A local superhero to the Clyde area, it ran in the Govan Press and the Clydebank & Renfrewshire Presses from 1979 to 1982 on the TV listings pages. It also included some proto-superhero revisionist ideas and superheroes dealing with real-life situations and locations. Captain Clyde was Chris Melville, an unemployed Glaswegian who was transformed by the standing stones of the Orkneys, granted magical powers by the goddess Elen, and would defend Glasgow against villains such as Quasar and Deros and would finally meet his end after a fight to the death with the devil.

Fellow Scot Etienne Kubwabo is a film director who has also created comics, including the first Black Scottish superhero DJ ET in his comic book Beats of War, which was part of the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail, with a large-scale artwork installed

In a cryptic announcement Tuesday, 2000AD announced a new Judge Dredd story called Death of a Judge, coming soon from artist Mike Perkins and the character’s co-creator, John Wagner.

But that’s really all the information that the U.K. publisher shared, other than it will appear in the pages of 2000 AD. We don’t, however, yet know when the story will begin.

A story dubbed Death of a Judge with Wagner attached as writer does feel like a big deal, though. Potentially. Judge Dredd ages more than your normal well-known comics character, and so it doesn’t feel like a major jump to presume this story might actually kill Judge Dredd. Unlikely? Perhaps! But who really knows.

Wagner is always liable to switch up the Judge Dredd status quo with a consequential story arc. Death of a Judge will mark his first new work with the character since last year’s Judge Dredd: Machine Rule (read Wagner talking about it here), which wrapped up in September. That arc had more consequences for (robo

The makers of comic book heroes from Dennis the Menace to Judge Dredd are banding together to take on their biggest enemy yet — AI copycats.

A newly formed trade association, Comic Book UK, will bring together companies such as DC Thomson, which publishes the Beano, and Rebellion Entertainment, which makes 2000AD.

Other members will include The Phoenix Comic, which has published the Bunny vs Monkey series, graphic novel company Avery Hill Publishing and Fable, a digital comics platform.

The group will lobby for government and investor recognition that UK comics are an important export industry and develop valuable intellectual property.

One of the most immediate issues will be securing the industry’s future as the UK government considers proposals to relax copyright laws to train AI models.

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Comic Book UK says the industry produces hundreds of thousands of pages of comic book content every year and has extensive archives of historic content.

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People who enjoy science fiction love to imagine the future: time travel, spaceships, something wobbly with a green face. But what if those fans really had access to it – the future, I mean – courtesy of something very similar to the internet? This is the possibility Paul B Rainey floats in There’s No Time Like the Present, in which a crowd of misfits from Milton Keynes (once the future itself) are able, if not to visit Mars, then at least to watch episodes of Doctor Who that have not yet been screened.

Mordant and misanthropic in almost equal measure, Rainey’s book has three central characters, each one somewhat stuck, unable fully to escape their childhood. Barry, an obnoxious lazybones, still lives at home with his parents; he makes his living selling bootleg recordings of TV shows he has lifted from the “ultranet”, which provides entry to the future. Cliff, Barry’s friend, and a yoghurt-addicted woman called Kelly live together in her new house, but they’re not a couple; whil

Comic creator and illustrator R. E. Burke is currently being held in a US detention centre, after being detained at the US-Canada border due to visa issues while on a backpacking holiday. Now, a GoFundMe campaign organised by Jade Upshall is raising money to help her and Becky’s family, to get a lawyer who can fight for Becky’s release, get her a flight home, and finance other costs.

Becky’s detention is the result of a visa mix-up, her plight widely reported by the BBC and other mainstream news services, and by Broken Frontier.

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Supporters have rallied under the banner of #BringBeckyHome in the hope of speeding up the process through a GoFundMe campaign to get Becky safely back to the UK as soon as possible. As of Wednesday 12th March 2025, the campaign had raised over £4000 of its £5000 target.

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on London-based comic book creator R.E. Burke, or Becky Burke, whose family is in Portskewett, Monmouthshire in Wales, being held in detention by I.C.E. in Washington state in the USA, after she crossed from the US to Canada and back again on a tourist visa, as part of a four-month backpacking trip across North America. Despite attempts to get her released and sent home, she has remained in confinement in onerous conditions for the past eleven days.

Her father, Paul Burke, talking to BBC Wales told them that R.E. Burke had been exchanging accommodation for helping host families "around the house", and he believes authorities may have suspected she broke the terms of her tourist visa. In his appeal, published by Bleeding Cool, he asked for UK authorities to get involved, and it seems that this is now happening, as the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have confirmed to the BBC that they are supporting a British national in thi