Tag Brian

An Ironic Reading of Portions from Silver Surfer, Issues 5 and 6

In my teenage years, I had a big comic habit (graciously funded by my parents). It all started with the Silver Surfer double-issue where the Kree-Skrull war kicked off, on a holiday in Saffron Walden. I can’t remember the year it was, but it was before my reading speed kicked into the ludicrously high speed [...]

My take on Mashed08

Note: I wrote this with a giant stinking cold, and I seem to have left it slightly unfinished. For better reviews of Mashed, see the links at the bottom of the post. As promised, here is my review-cum-grizzle at Mashed08. This is prompted by the excellent Guardian piece here which you should go and read, [...]

Where are you!?

I’m in the studio, with Brian, most days now. Above, you can see a picture that reflects our usage of the studio. (Yes, I mean Brian working hard and me goofing off

Training Into the Wind

Click here to see the map I’m talking about. Being offically ‘old’ this year, it’s my ambition to ride the route know as the coast to coast before I become thirty. As part of that ambition, myself, Alan, and Brian did a training ride today along some of the excellent cyclepaths in the area. We [...]

First Attempt at a Podcast

This is the first attempt by Brian, Topsy and myself at a podcast – it’s a roughly edited ten-minutes or so of us talking about some of the things that are coming up over the week, some of the things we are doing, and some of the art in the local area. It’s not going [...]

Alan’s got a sweet new bike.

My flatmate Alan has been having a rough time with his bicycles recently. After I convinced him that cycling was a good way of getting around, he got his bike stolen. Our friend, Topsy, then lent him a replacement which turned out to be one of Matt Seaton’s bicycle-shaped objects. But no more! I went [...]