Did we already say just how excited we are about the 2000AD exhibition coming to London next month? Well it bears repeating since the kind folks at Rebellion invited us along to the launch night. Rubbing shoulders with 2000AD artists and shaking the green hand …
There comes a point in every child’s life when they look upon the toys they once cherished and decide that they’ve outgrown them. We’ve all done it: Star Wars figures given away to ungrateful siblings; Action Men forced to retire and return to civilian life; …
God botherers haven’t had much to moan about theatre-wise since their little outburst over Jerry Springer: The Opera so praise be that Satan has had one of his minions dare to bring another ‘controversial’ piece of theatre to London. A new play by Howard Brenton …
Let’s just dive right into the cess pool this week shall we, with a look at the reviews for Dukes of Hazzard…we need a laugh. Now you don’t get a medal for predicting a one star review from James Christopher in The Times. It’s a …
As regular readers will know, we at the Londonist love comics. So you can only imagine our excitement when this week’s Beano found it’s way to the Londonist sports desk featuring none other than the mighty Queens Park Rangers. Not only are the R’s second …
Another week and another bit of Alan Moore news. No not that Hugo Weaving has taken over as V on the stupid movie of ‘V for Vendetta’. This is much better. The trailer for The Mindscape of Alan Moore is online. It’s a bit of …
Londonist would have loved to have seen a faithful rendition of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta make it to the big screen, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anytime soon. Moore has not only distanced himself as far as possible from the …
On 21st June, the ratcheted-rental-threatened London Eye shames its greedy landlords (the South Bank Centre) by hosting a special event to raise awareness of Third World Debt and its attendant trade issues. Flight 5065 aims to promote Cafedirect‘s Fairtrade range and to raise awareness of …
One of the things we want to start doing more of here on Londonist is running interviews with ‘normal but interesting’ Londoners. That is, day-to-day types who make this city what it is. To kick off the process we emailed our favourite comic shop, Gosh! …
And talking of sci-fi adaptations… …Reading Bookslut this morning we came across a link to a post on the Newsarama forums from a guy who, it seems, has read the script for the forthcoming V for Vendetta film. After From Hell this is Alan Moore’s …
Science has finally managed to catch up with the adverts in the back of comics from about 20 years ago with the introduction of an X-Ray machine that makes people look naked. Admittedly it’s not in the handy spectacle format all perverts in training have …
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