Tops and Bottoms - 16th April 2025.
Get an Egg or a Comic!
Welcome back. It’s been a busy week on the work front. We have a long weekend lined up. I plan on making it a Good Friday by visiting Strangers Apparitions in the morning. If you haven’t been yet it’s a great comic shop in a garden centre. You can find all the details right here.
Meanwhile at the ACP Offices we welcomed in that bloke Alan Henderson to chat about what indie comics we thought should have been bigger. It was prompted by the below prose book that I bought and had brought back all those feelings of reading comics like ‘Badger’, ‘Cerebus’, ‘Jon Sable’ and more as they were released.
I’ll leave you to have a listen to the episode to find out my main two choices but here is the list of my worthy mentions.
‘Axel Pressbutton’ - Steve and Alan Moore ffs.
‘The DNAgents’ (with a special guest slot of New Teen Titans - now relegated to cheap back issue bins).
‘Justice Machine’ - a fun team book, worthy of a revisit.
‘Rog 2000’ (if you know, you know).
‘Eternity Smith’ - great art and a Whovian/Superhero/Pulp approach.
‘Dalgoda’ - C’mon! In a time of Furries, Dalgoda is a Top Dawg surely!
‘Greylore’ - Nobody remembers!
‘Espers’ - Scanners meets Mutants with some David Lloyd art!
‘Sun Runners’ - Broderick is always rocking!
It was a pretty fun exercise. Give it a go.
Onwards.
Small Press Comic of the Week.
I haven’t been a fan of so-called auto-bio comics in the last few years. Many refuse to take chances and prefer to just show sides to the reader they think will make them likeable. Sean Azzopardi could never be accused of doing that. He reveals and exposes himself and his family in the ‘Life’s A Party’ series and this really goes places. Done by someone who understands the format and the medium his work will worry you. I applaud each and every issue.
Top.
Another entry for this comic and Ghost Machine. Showing, again and again, other companies and writers and artists what can and should be done within the pages of an adventure comic book series. Some of the art and storytelling here will blow your socks off! This is a a one-and-done (kinda) in the series so worth jumping on.
Bottoms.
Another unfunny pile of crap that somehow got recommended to me by the dark and deluded internet demon.
No deep message this week. It’s the Easter holiday very soon in the UK so go buy and read some good comics.
Many thanks for reading.
I noticed The Flaming Carrot tucked in on the left side of that Indie Comics cover, did you ever get into that?
Great to see that Sean Azzopardi has something new out. I always enjoy his stuff and will have to pick that up whenever I make it back to London.
Keep smiling!
Oh man, I remember seeing that Dalgoda cover back in the day and being blown away. It was great hearing Al on the show too.