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This week’s Remake/Remodel thread at Whitechapel was chugging along happily, trying to make sense out of a tiny description of an obscure 1940s character:

Sharon Kane is the sworn enemy of all criminals. Her specially designed bracelets eject spider webbing. Her boyfriend is a detective named Mike O’Bell.

And then Ryan Kelly, Pia Guerra and Paul Sizer came in overnight and just owned pretty much everybody.

Ryan Kelly is the illustrator of LOCAL, a teacher, and currently illustrating a NORTHLANDE

A random selection from the music that’s been living on my laptop this week.

1. "need we say more", 2. Surveillance in Manchester, 3. Turinese band sticker, 4. Mobile CCTV, 5. Coalescing cross-sections through the possibility jellyfish, 6. BB102

…keep an eye on this site. Planned London public transport engineering work for the weekend. If you’re still unsure of what route to take, try the TFL Journey Planner.

I’m there Saturday afternoon only, from around noon (which probably means 1pm), in the Comics Village area of the Expo.

MI6 urged Churchill to nuke Berlin - Telegraph
"It was even suggested that Churchill would raise the idea of using the bomb, which had been in development in the United States since 1942, with Franklin Roosevelt, the American president."
(tags:war spy )

New Scientist has the details:

I love the energy of Ash’s SURVIVE!! serial.

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ODYSSEUS THE REBEL, by old friend Steven Grant and Scott Bieser, is working its way from web serialisation to print publication this autumn.

YON KUMA, by Josh Hechinger and Jorge Munoz, is, in Jorge’s own words "about a kid who wrestles bears." BEARS!

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I’m reading Simon Reynolds’ TOTALLY WIRED at the moment, a compendium of the interviews he conducted for the highly recommended RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN, a history of post-punk. (At the same time as I’m re-reading Paul Morley’s WORDS AND MUSIC and picking through zttaat.com.) And this morning I read the interview with Green Gartside aka Scritti Politti — who seems to have mellowed significantly, and provides a warm and fascinating memoir of the times — and realise I haven’t listened to "Asylu

1. The Civilian Industrial Complex, 2. Sand, wind, cloud, 3. What do you see? Yahoo vandalising Greenwich!, 4. Can I Get a Bot Bot?, 5. obey the law, 6. Chains

So there’s this series coming out in the last half of 2009 called SUPERGOD:

And it’s one of the odder things I’ve written, I think. Someone made the mistake of asking me for another superhero-mode comic, and I suspect maybe since I returned to that subgenre something important in my brain developed moss on it or something. Here’s a piece of my notes on the book, for a sequence in issue #2:

China began designing their own superhuman soon after, but didn’t have the tech for Megareactor Buddha’