The Friday Review: Nobody
21st September 2001
From superhero cops to supernatural westerns, genre crossovers are very much in vogue. But when it comes to mixing religious horror with noir thriller, NOBODY does it better.

Club Forteana: Parasyte
20th August 2001
In the third part of his series on Fortean comics, Al Stuart looks at the body horror of Hitosi Iwaaki's manga series PARASYTE, the tale of a schoolboy who becomes the host for a murderous parasitic alien.

Ripping Yarns: An Interview with David Hitchcock
6th August 2001
David Hitchcock is the self-published creator of SPIRIT OF THE HIGHWAYMAN and the new Jack the Ripper comic WHITECHAPEL FREAK, which hit the shelves last week. Al Stuart talked to him about history, nationality and going it alone.

The Friday Review: Dark Blue
13th July 2001
When erotic comics publisher Avatar decided to publish a 'maverick cop' story, who would have predicted a morality tale? Yet that's exactly what writer Warren Ellis and artist Jacen Burrows delivered... after a fashion.

Club Forteana: Elvis Must Die
9th July 2001
Don your blue suede shoes and erase all suspicion from your minds. Ninth Art has got some good rockin' tonight as we join the court of the King for a mess of blues, in Alasdair Stuart's ongoing series on comics and Forteana.

No Cape In My Size
22nd June 2001
Ordinary people, extraordinary lives. From SPIDER-MAN to Straczynski's RISING STARS, writers have tried to impose a sense of reality on the superhero genre. Alasdair Stuart looks at the appeal, and at some of the more successful attempts.

Club Forteana: Lords of Misrule
28th May 2001
In the first in an irregular feature exploring the strange and unexplained in comics, Alasdair Stuart ventures into the strange world of LORDS OF MISRULE.