CLICK HERE TO GO TO THIS WEEK'S RACK OK. So a post on Twitter caught my eye and made me cross. Since I can't talk about it in the shop right now, because I can't get into it, (more on that, and when I will be getting back into the shop in the early part of next week when I've got the website properly sorted) I guess I'll bend your ear online instead. The tweet was from writer Vita Ayala, who said this: "If anyone is tryna follow my insta, it's on private because the rage-trolls that were sending me death threats after I was announced on an X-book started coming after my mom, so now if you wanna see pictures of my cats being weird I have to remember to approve..."* I've taken out the emojis (

Regie sat down over Zoom with artist Lucy Sullivan to discuss her graphic novel Barking and her wider comics work. Click on the image below to go to the download page, or search "The Geeks at the Gates" wherever you get your podcasts. We began by talking about the brilliant graphic novel Barking, which means the conversation does turn towards mental health and the inadequacies of our current over-loaded, under-resourced system. More information on Barking and most of the other work discussed in this edition can be found at Lucy's website HERE. We made much of the one page fold out 'zines in the discussion, Ind-xed with Fraser Campbell We mentioned Comic Printing UK, the company that prints m

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THIS WEEK'S RACK Bryan Talbot announces Grandville: L’Intégrale Bryan Talbot is one of my absolute comics heroes. His work on Luther Arkwright, Nemesis the Warlock, The Tale of One Bad Rat and so much else has made him one of the giants of British Comics. His most recent work has been the Grandville novels, telling the Steampunky adventures of Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard. LeBrock is an anthropomorphic badger who investigates crimes in an art nouveau world populated by anthropomorphic animals and a human underclass. There are currently five Grandville graphic novels, and I can tell you that they're increasingly hard to get. So I was delighted to learn th

Regie sat down across Zoom with prolific writer Fraser Campbell. Click on the image below to go to the download page, or search for The Geeks at the Gates wherever you get your podcasts! We started with Fraser's latest project, IND-XED, a dystopian SciFi comic illustrated by Lucy Sullivan. You've missed the kickstarter, but you can pre-order the print version HERE, or the digital version HERE and we would encourage you to give it at look. We ran through a whole bunch of the comics that Fraser has written - find out more about them HERE and also at Tribute Press, whose website appears to be under construction, but who can be found on Facebook HERE. We also mentioned the Frank Quitely cover fo

In our second GATG Thought Bubble Special, Regie chatted with artist Alison Sampson. Click the image below to go to the download page or search for The Geeks at the Gates wherever you get your podcasts. We began by talking about Sleeping Beauties, adapted from the novel by Stephen and Owen King. Alison mentioned that she was part of a panel for Thought Bubble exploring the complex process of adaptation - check out the Thought Bubble schedule HERE. Alison mentioned that there is "not a great deal of fridging" in the novel Sleeping Beauties. If you're unfamiliar with the term, it is used to describe the practice of killing off or hurting a minor character in order to motivate or torture a mai

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THIS WEEK'S RACK DC GETS A NEW EDITOR IN CHIEF The changes continue at the top of DC Comics, following on from the absolute bloodbath back in August when a whole bunch of long term staffers were shown the door. During that round of changes Marie Javins and Michele R. Wells were appointed as co-Editors in Chief. Now Javins gets to go solo as she is named sold and permanent Editor in Chief of DC Comics. This is good news. Javins seems to be pretty forward looking and has a direction in mind for the company. Given how directionless DC has appeared to be since Dan DiDio was let go way back before Lockdown any vison has to be an improvement. Javins does seem to have a decent a

If Thought Bubble had been able to physically happen Regie would have spend some time running around from table to table grabbing brief interviews with some of the folk exhibiting there. It is of course 2020, so that wasn't possible. But while 2020 brought us disease and lockdown, it also brought us Zoom, so he's taken to the internet to speak to as many people exhibiting in the virtual halls as he can. First to speak through the miracle of the internet was writer Paul Cornell. Click on the image below to go to the download page or search for The Geeks at the Gates wherever fine Pods are Casted. We began by discussing his forthcoming horror comic I walk with Monsters, coming on 25th November

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS WEEK'S RACK! Hello! We're back with another Wednesday Waffle - sorry it's been so long but we've been stupidly busy and had nothing much to say either. Now we have rather more than we'd like. So. Let's get started with the top story: DANCING TO THE ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: COVID LOCKDOWN UPDATE Right. If you're reading this on the morning of publication, today is the last day the shop will be open under the stairs before we lock down until 2nd December*. We're open until 6pm, and then that's it. Unlike last time though, Diamond will be delivering throughout lockdown, as will our other suppliers. We will be invoicing and then delivering to customers throughout Harrogate and K

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS WEEK'S RACK OK. So we've had a chance to digest the news from Saturday. For Destination Venus the situation hovers somewhere between "sub optimal" and "existential threat". But if we're honest we've been hanging on by a thread for a couple of years now - if we were the sort of business that was in the business of giving up we would have done so some time ago. Obviously, we're not thrilled about having to close for four weeks (and who knows, maybe longer). But here we are, so as the late, great Sean Connery's character Jim Malone would have said in the Untouchables: "The question is, what are you going to do about it?" Well, we're going to reach out to our customers aga