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Wednesday's comic round-up gives us Richard Corben drawing Hellboy, some newly reprinted 2000 AD work from Gorillaz maven Jamie Hewlett, and the Scott Pilgrim boxed set. A motley crew if ever there was one! More »
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Alan Moore is on board to pen the libretto for Gorillaz creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's next opera. No word on the show's plot, but Albarn and Hewlett's last opera focused on a mythological monkey's spiritual pilgrimage. [Guardian] More »
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You may know Tank Girl as many things — comic book character, punk-rock icon, failed movie star... but now you will know her as a fine-art collectible. A new giant coffee-table book, The Cream Of Tank Girl, makes the case for Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's creation being a work of art with pulverizing intensity. Just check out our gallery below. More »
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Bad news for fans of Phoo Action, the British television show based on Tank Girl and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett's futuristic kung-fu Buddhist crimefighting comic strip Get The Freebies. The BBC have pulled the plug on a fully fledged series based on the pilot, just days before shooting was due to begin. Why did the action-comedy fall down so close to the starting line? More »
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Even before the pilot episode of future-cop show Phoo Action aired, network heads at the BBC have decided to make the show into a six episode series. Action is about a bad-ass kung fu cop who teams up with a surly teenage girl to fight the criminal Freebies Gang. Adapted from Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett's 1990s strip Get The Freebies, the show will have its full mini-season later this year. More »
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In the year 2012, buddhist kung-fu cops team up with teenage anarchist daughters of the establishment to fight supercrime! Or, at least, that's the concept behind Phoo Action, a new BBC pilot adapted by Doctor Who director Euros Lyn from a semi-forgotten strip by Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett. Influenced by the sixties Batman TV show, the odd Buddhist-futurist series just might be the next cult hit or, if nothing else, an interesting televisual oddity. Learn more about just what Phoo Action is and see a clip below. More »
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