#Paul Grist

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Hellboy vs Lobster Johnson One-Shot - Cover by Paolo Rivera.

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"Mrs Peel, we're needed

Judge Dredd Mega Special #6: Kinky Boots

by Robbie Morrison; Paul Grist and Tom Frame

Fleetway

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Happy birthday to Paul Grist!

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Lucifer #2

by Eddie Campbell and Paul Grist

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Smash! #1 by Paul Grist, Anna Morozova, Tom Foster and Simon Bowland. Cover by Andy Clarke. Out in November.

"In Victorian London, when Janus Stark traps a demon in a stone idol he creates a prize too alluring for criminal masterminds to resist, and 60 years later the King of Crooks organises his Crime Syndicate to heist the statuette. However, The Steel Claw and Jane Bond are assigned to halt the theft, but they encounter a mysterious stranger who throws both sides' plans into disarray. A fast-paced action-adventure miniseries written by Paul Grist (Jack Staff) and with art by Tom Foster (Judge Dredd) and Anna Morozova (2000 AD) featuring a host of classic British comic book characters brought back to life in this 3-part miniseries."

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Out this week: Smash! #1 (Rebellion, $7.99): Look, I would have listed this one here for the title alone, but even better? It’s by Paul Grist and Tom Foster, and it resurrects a lot of British comic characters like Jane Bond and the Steel Claw, as they attempt to stop the King of Crooks from stealing a demon-possessed statue.

See what else is coming to your local comic shop this week!

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Daily Bugle 3 Issue Complete Set (1996-1997) by Marvel Comics

Written by Paul Grist, drawn by Karl Kerschl and Greg Adams.

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Tube Surfing: Pet Peeves book launch, Barry Humphries comic strip writing, new Tripwire and more

Forthcoming Attractions: Nicole Goux will be launching her new comic, Pet Peeves, published by Avery Hill at Gosh! Comics in London on Thursday 27th April. This is a personal project for Nicole, a horror following aspiring musician Bobbie as she faces struggles with her artistic journey and… terrfiying yet adorable hounds! The launch party starts at 7.00pm. You can also pre-order a signed copy…

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New Scotland Yard: Shadow of a Deadbeat (2.6, LWT, 1972)

"Anything wrong?"

"Anything wrong? She knows how to contact Eddie Moffett, you can bet your life on it!"

"I'm betting Lee Collins' life on it."

"She's gonna go to the nearest phone and she's gonna tell Eddie just where Collins is."

"That's right."

"It's too dangerous."

"Oh, it's been dangerous ever since Moffett pulled that trigger!"

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Heroes Reborn: American Knights #1 (2021)

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Preview: Smash! #1 (of 3)

Smash! #1 preview. In Victorian London, when Janus Stark traps a demon in a stone idol he creates a prize too alluring for criminal masterminds to resist #comics #comicbooks

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Smash #1 Advance Review: A Goofy Heist Comic

Smash #1 is a mash-up of classic British spy characters, all after the same MacGuffin. But how does the 2000 AD title from Paul Grist and Anna Morozova work for our American reviewers?

Smash #1 is a mash-up of classic British spy characters, all after the same MacGuffin. But how does the 2000 AD title from Paul Grist and Anna Morozova work for our American reviewers? We reviewed the book on the Stack podcast. But in the interest of highlighting more about the title, here’s a summary of the conversation with our thoughts. And if you prefer the longer audio version, that’s below…

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Smash #1 Advance Review: A Goofy Heist Comic

Smash #1 is a mash-up of classic British spy characters, all after the same MacGuffin. But how does the 2000 AD title from Paul Grist and Anna Morozova work for our American reviewers?

Smash #1 is a mash-up of classic British spy characters, all after the same MacGuffin. But how does the 2000 AD title from Paul Grist and Anna Morozova work for our American reviewers? We reviewed the book on the Stack podcast. But in the interest of highlighting more about the title, here’s a summary of the conversation with our thoughts. And if you prefer the longer audio version, that’s below…

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PAL-079 Bill Orcutt LP

"How to Rescue Things"

Charlie Parker's first album with a string section landed in 1950, ten years after his debut recordings. Although the overtly lush arrangements of Charlie Parker with Strings were Parker's idea, the record must've been something of a relief to producer Norman Granz, especially when the sides went on to become Bird's best- seller, by a long shot. The record (and its follow-up) sparked something of a jazz-strings virus, infecting Nina Simone, Paul Desmond, Clifford Brown, and (later) Miles and Trane. And while the latter entries in that list were clearly bending their arrangements into space-age forms (and the arrangers -- Gil Evans, Eric Dolphy -- were becoming much hipper), these ubiquitous strings albums established a jazz cliché of sorts. They were a shot for the charts at worst, an attempted reinvigoration of tired easy- listening ear candy at best.

How to Rescue Things, landing 15 years into Bill Orcutt's “rediscovery” years, marks a somewhat tardy entry into the string- sweetening sweepstakes. In a post-chart, post-irony world, no one is going to mistake this as a bid for mainstream ears — nor are too many pop-gobblers going to paste this into their “Chillax” playlist. With loops of dulcet, birdsong choruses, syrupy strings, and plucked harps clipped from an RCA easy-listening disc, the zombie strings conjure not red leather couches, cotton slankets, and yuzu martinis, but rather a clockwork mortuary, an undead Who-ville and a cigarette butt drowned in bottom-shelf scotch. In contrast to Orcutt's previous reanimation of yesterday's hit parade,

How to Rescue Things instead takes as its foundation the oily underbelly of the American songbook, the relentless gears that churn melody into newly consumable and marketable forms — simultaneously ersatz, soothing, and funereal.

It's easy to use saccharine, easy-listening settings to deconstruct the romanticism of the past. Yet How to Rescue Things is not an ironic record. True to its title, the transparently corny strings serve not as a meditation on cultural vacuity, but as an attempt to rehabilitate the clichés of the past, “rescuing” them as improvisational grist for new melodic content. They serve as a harmonic substrate for some of Orcutt's most complex playing, and free him to explore the solo-as-such without the need to imply an underlying tune (unlike Orcutt's previous acoustic explorations of nostalgic song).

Orcutt's razor-sharp Fender slices through the satiny settings in angular and unexpected ways, particularly in the final tracks “Requiem in Dust” and “The Wild Psalms,” where his double picking swerves into almost Sharrock-ian territory. But ultimately, true to the Parker records that started this whole trope in the first place, Orcutt sticks to a complex yet tonal path throughout, imbuing tracks like “Not Reconciled” (with its crooned “Oh my god” and a cheeky “amen” tacked to the end) with wide-eyed romantic optimism that goes down strange in a deathbed ballad. But ultimately, it's not strange at all. Rather, this palliative track celebrates a necessary, death-defying joy in the face of darkness — whether genuine or performative is unimportant. And what's more genuinely American than whistling past the graveyard? Just ask Judy Garland. — TOM CARTER

Sanctuary 3:42

Not Reconciled 5:33

How to Rescue Things 4:56

Old Hamlet 3:24

Pylon Pylon! 3:21

Requiem in Dust 3:44

The Wild Psalms 5:15

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compiled some drawings by some of my favourite comic book artists of all time, in response to an open question on twitter. in no particular order, they are:

Steve Ditko

Daniel Clowes

Paul Grist

Curt Swan

Jack Kirby

Alex Toth

Harvey Kurtzman

Harry Lucey

John Romita JR

Tony Salmons

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Smash! #3 by Paul Grist, Jimmy Broxton and VV Glass. Cover by Andy Clarke. Out in January 2024.

"The six decade-spanning adventure comes to an explosive conclusion as Cursitor Doom is outwitted by a former sidekick, and the demon trapped in the stone idol since the time of Janus Stark is unleashed. The time-traveling Adam Eterno enters the fray in an attempt to halt the demon's reign of terror, but whose side will the King of Crooks choose to align with? An action-packed finale written by Paul Grist (Jack Staff, Kane) and drawn by V.V. Glass (The Last Witch)."