ACES WEEKLY begins Volume 32

The first issue of a new volume of the award winning digital comic Aces Weekly has just gone live, and you can see it here:
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/vol32-issue1 

This is volume 32 of the comic, which has been publishing a new issue on Monday nights for several years now. A few new stories begin this week, but remember you can also read every previous issue. Digital comics never go out of print!

Here's the info on Aces Weekly Vol.32 No.1:

TAKE 2 : Part 1
Got an important decision to make in your life? Have to take one course or another? What if you didn't have to? What if you could Take 2?
A challenging and unusual crime thriller from writer, Jack Briglio and artist, Sal Donaire.

IRON DRAGON
The writer of The Phantom, Philip Madden, and artist, Janusz Ordon, here present an amazing preview of a series in development.
THE FLIGHT : Part 6 by Jeff Vaughn and Brendon and Brian Fraim.
Refugees from a destroyed Earth seek safe harbour on a planet in a distant galaxy - but can it be safe when so much of what they've tried to escape from is still with them like unwanted baggage?
Catch up in Vols 20,23,25,27 and 29!

GOONS OF THE GALAXY by Marc Jackson.
It's back! The crazy, zany, totally out of this world, adventures of Jerry Jetflash! Here we re-join Jerry and his Dad from where we left them in Volume 28 - at the mercy of an armed stowaway..!

MERLIN AND HECTOR : Excalibur - Chapter 1
The endlessly-mined, but always rewarding, legend of Camelot yields another tale here to inspire our wonder! This time from our constant, and constantly fantastic, twosome : Jok and Santullo!

KORA by Chris Geary.
Can Kora survive! Can the battle be won?

Remember,subscribing to Aces Weekly is only £6.99 for each volume of 7 issues, so that's a pound an issue. Great value! You'll find brand new Combat Colin strips in some of the earlier volumes too!

More info about Aces Weekly at their website:
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/home-aces



 

ACES WEEKLY Vol.31 begins

It's the digital comic that keeps on giving. Aces Weekly has just begun its 31st volume, which is a perfect jumping on point for new readers. Subscribing to the 7 issue volume of the award-winning anthology means that each issue only costs you £1. Cheaper than any comic on the newsstands! 

Intrigued? Find out more at the Aces Weekly website today!
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk

There's also the Aces Weekly Facebook page which you'll find here:
https://www.facebook.com/acesweekly/

Jump onboard ACES WEEKLY for a new volume!

If you still haven't given Aces Weekly a try, you're missing out on an award-winning digital comic with ALL-NEW content from some of the top creators in the UK and beyond. Don't just take my word for it. Listen to the publisher himself, David Lloyd...

Aces Weekly Volume 28, starts on May 29 for 7 glittering weeks ! Subscribe NOW for JUST £1 per week, before tomorrow, and the massive, Volume 27, comes to you fully-formed, all parts collected, instantly, to read now, entire! Upcoming Volume 28 has the familiar fantastic and the super new, including, Stephen Baskerville, Marc makes comics, Manoel Magalhães, and Paul Rainey! £1 per week! All done! No coupons needed! 
www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop

Here's a few previews of what's coming up...

ACES WEEKLY begins a new volume

Volume 26 No.1 of Aces Weekly went online last Monday, kicking off with a great line up of new stories from some fantastic talent. Here's the info...

KARMA COYOTE

Two guys on the move, and one of them is definitely in trouble... What's going on? You'll just have to wait and see...

Script : Luis Roldan. Art : Diego Simone.

ANGEL ACADEMY

Heard of Fame Academy? Heard of Tool Academy? Well, this is, Angel Academy...

Script : Sam Roads. Art : Andy Wright.

GEYSERS OF TITAN

At the far reaches of the Solar System, in the harsh landscape of Saturn's satellite, men dig for their lives...

Script : Petri Hanninen. Art : Russ Leach. Letters : Ben Dickson.

DUNGEONS AND BURGLARS

The Big Hit : Part III!

Alaric - the ambitious ringleader of a ragtag bunch of petty criminals tasked with the theft of a fabulous treasure - recalls the events that have guided him to his dangerous undertaking...

Script : Rodolfo Santullo. Art : Jok.

GRAN THEFT PUDDLETON

Beneath the bright colours of an English village bathed in the summer sun, a mystery made in charcoal lies...

Script/art: Emma Chinnery.

SLASH MORON

CHAPTER 1 

Slash Moron and his friends are still stranded on the distant Planet Varzoom, which is ruled by the evil Emperor Klutchmong... 

Pencils by Jim Hansen Colours by John Burns Script/inks/letters by Bambos

Subscribing to each seven-issue volume of Aces Weekly costs just £6.99. Where else can you get an all-new weekly comic for a quid? And remember, all previous issues are always available, so it's never too late to jump on board! For more info, visit the website now!

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk

ACES WEEKLY special offer!

Aces Weekly publisher David Lloyd has posted this on Facebook...

Yes, that's right. If you subscribe to Aces Weekly before tomorrow (23rd January), your sub will start with the complete seven issues of the previous volume (vol.25) as a bonus. And Volume 26 begins tomorrow too, so you'll have the first weekly issue of that also. 

Why wait? Zoom over to the Aces Weekly website now to sign up and get reading! Just £6.99 for seven issues.
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop

ACES WEEKLY celebrates 25 volumes

Today, the digital anthology comic Aces Weekly launches the first issue in its 25th volume. (Each volume comprises seven weekly issues.) A few critics may still scorn the idea of digital comics but publisher David Lloyd has proved that Aces Weekly can endure. 

Having contributed several new Combat Colin strips to the comic myself I can vouch that it's a joy to work on. David gives his contributors free reign on their strips and we all receive an equal share of the profits, fairly divided, based on the number of pages we contribute. Plus, of course, we own the full rights to our strips.

David Lloyd issued this statement on Facebook yesterday:

"Friends,
Tomorrow we begin Volume 25 of Aces Weekly! We've reached a quarter-century of graphic-novel-sized anthologies of extraordinary comics storytelling from an amazing variety of Aces from across the globe. We've been blessed with great subscribers and great contributors to get to this milestone of achievement, and, to mark it, I want to pay tribute to those subscribers and their commitment to us, and also express thanks to all the great Aces who are our contributors, whose work has made us what we are : the greatest original digital comics art magazine in the world! Here's a roll-call of some of our stars, with more names to note to come - and remember : their work is always available, never out of print, never in a back-issue box, and is ready to read at the touch of a button from www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop... John McCrea, Phil Hester, Jeff Anderson, Jeffrey Vaughn, Mark Wheatley, Steve Marchant, Marc Hempel, Alain Mauricet, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Yishan Li, Carl Critchlow, David Leach, David Hitchcock, Phil Elliott, Lew Stringer, Roger Langridge, Herb Trimpe, Esteban Hernández, Mychailo Kazybrid, Bambos Georgiou, Ferg Handley, Kathryn Layno, James Hudnall, Val Mayerik, Henry Flint, Ben Dickson, Réza Benhadj, Paul Maybury, Antonio Bifulco, Seth David Tobocman, Stephen Baskerville, Rory Walker, Jimmy Broxton, David Hine, Shaky Kane, Batton Lash, Dan Christensen,Jasper Bark, Alfa Robbi, Martin Cater, Chris Geary, Laura Scarpa, Manoel Magalhães, Osmarco Valladão, Rachael Smith, Carlos Pascoa, Gary Whitlock, and Junior Tomlin...
And tomorrow we show you the future... Volume 25. Join us at Aces Weekly."

The new line up of strips that begin in Aces Weekly Vol.25 No.1 are:

MERCY KILLING

How much help would you offer a stranger?
Script : Marcello Bondi. Art Giuseppe Latanza. Letters : Gabriele Crepaldi.

DUNGEONS AND BURGLARS: The Big Hit (Part II)

In the back-story of a legendary treasure, an heroic figure stands revealed as a betrayer! But what next..?

Art : Jok. Script : Santullo.

BOOM! NOWHERE.
In a drowned world, some things must be brought to the surface...
Script: Katie Cunningham. Art : Heather Fisher.

WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME?

The continuing story of family life through a blackly comedic glass…

by Paul Rainey.

GOONS OF THE GALAXY

Blue milk blues is looking like a permanent condition..!
by Marc Jackson.

FLIGHT

Waiting in orbit, a huge spaceship is called into the service of humanity, once more...
Script : Jeff Vaughn. Art : Brendon and Brian Fraim.

Remember, Aces Weekly is only £6.99 for each seven issue volume, and all 25 volumes are always available. No worries about them going out of print, and no searching for back issues. Support UK comics and subscribe today!

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk

Goons of the Galaxy!

Digital comic Aces Weekly celebrated its 4th birthday last week, and I'll be giving it more coverage soon, but for now I just want to focus on Marc Jackson's latest strip. Marc has been a contributor to The Beano, as well as producing his own comics, and his latest strip, Goons of the Galaxy, appeared in Aces Weekly volume 23.

Goons of the Galaxy has all the hallmarks of Marc's distinct retro-yet-fresh cartoon style, coupled with a good helping of comic daftness. It's an amusing, fast paced story that runs across all seven issues of volume 23 of Aces Weekly. Unlike most other strips in the comic, Marc uses the whole screen for each panel, so each three page episode is only three panels and therefore a very brief read. In that regard, I think it's better to read the whole story in one go, rather than in short weekly installments, to get the full benefit of the story. And now that volume 23 has concluded you can do just that. 

There are also five other strips in each issue by other creators, providing plenty of variety in style and content. If you're already a subscriber you'll know Aces Weekly is good value for money at only £6.99 per 7 issue volume. (Volume 24 is currently up to issue 3.) Go for it! 
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk

Dylan Teague joins Aces Weekly

Code Name D © 2016 Dylan Teague

Cardiff-based Dylan Teague has always been an ace artist, but now he's an Aces artist, as he's joined the ranks of Aces Weekly! I'm actually a bit late reporting this as the third episode of Dylan's SF saga Code Name D is already online. (Things move fast in weekly comics!) Don't worry though; you haven't missed out, because the previous issues are also available. That's the beauty of online comics, - they never go out of print or sell out! In fact all 23 volumes of Aces Weekly are always available, at any time of day or night, - as fresh as ever!

Code Name D ©2016 Dylan Teague

Back to the latest volume though, and here's publisher David Lloyd to give it a plug:

"£1.  Less than the price of a cup of coffee gets you Dylan Teague, Paul Rainey, Jeffrey Vaughn, Roberto Corroto Cuadrado , Ertito Montana, Jok LP, Rodolfo Santullo, Marc James Michael Jackson, and The Art of Brendon and Brian Fraim, in 20 pages every week for 7 weeks and then as much as you like!  It's a revolution for readers and creators - and a no-brainer at www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop.  Sure.  I'm being blunt."

How can you resist? Subscribe to Aces Weekly today! (And remember that my Combat Colin is in some of the earlier issues too!)

Aces! COMBAT COLIN is back today!

The latest edition of online comic Aces Weekly has just gone live and it contains a brand new exclusive Combat Colin three-pager by me. This time ol' bobble hat is pitched against his best friend, Semi-Automatic Steve! What's going on? To read the whole story, sign up for Aces Weekly and see the strip in Volume 21, issue 7.
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk

Only £6.99 for a seven issue volume. Buy it through Paypal!  Use any card!  Grab any of the great Previous Volumes or get right on board the currently-running volume with an ongoing subscription for JUST £1 - or just over a dollar or a Euro - per week!  A new issue of Aces Weekly is uploaded every Monday night. Each volume consists of 7 weekly parts, and then future volumes right on after, till they run out of great comics (unlikely ).  As soon as you hear via email that your payment's been accepted - usually no longer than 5 minutes - you can log in with your chosen password and get Aces Weekly on your tablet, laptop, desktop, or SMART TV!

Each issue consists of six stories, and I'm pleased that Marc Jackson is on board this latest issue too with a new delightfully daft Duckless story! Don't miss it!

This is the fourth new Combat Colin story I've done for Aces Weekly. You can read about the previous ones here:
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/combat-colin-lives.html

A great comic every week!

The Beano, 2000AD, The Phoenix... the last remaining UK weekly comics? No, there's also Aces Weekly! The online comic anthology began its 20th volume last week and the second issue in that volume goes live this Monday night.

Every issue features six stories; some parts of serials, some complete, and the best thing is the strips are all new! And each seven issue volume only costs £6.99. Works on any computer and on tablets. 

Thinking it's too late to hop aboard? No worries; as it's an online comic all the previous volumes are still available. What are you waiting for? Go for Aces Weekly today! 
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/

If you'd prefer it as a digital download, the first ten volumes are available to buy on Comixology. Don't miss out on this award-winning comic!
https://www.comixology.co.uk/Aces-Weekly/comics-series/17829

Grab a Gran! PSYCHO GRAN!

The pensioner of peril is back this week as Psycho Gran returns to the latest issue of Aces Weekly! David Leach once again revives his classic Oink! character for an all-new story in Aces Weekly Volume 19 No.5, which went live last night.

If you haven't tried this award-winning digital comics anthology before it's never too late to start! Each volume of seven weekly issues costs just £6.99 and all volumes are always available on the site to read. Works on your PC, Mac, laptop or tablet. As well as David Leach there's a great range of other top comics talent involved too! Check it out today:
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/home

Aces Weekly celebrates three years

Yesterday marked the 3rd anniversary of the award-winning digital comic Aces Weekly, published by David Lloyd, co-creator of V for Vendetta. For those of you who often ask "Why aren't there any new anthology adventure comics anymore", Aces Weekly is for you. Six all new strips every issue by a wide variety of creators that have included John McCrea, Herb Trimpe, Kev Hopgood, Yishan Li, Rachael Smith, Henry Flint, David Leach, Shaky Kane and many more. As for those who claim that online comics aren't real comics because they're not on paper, that's as illogical as saying music isn't music if it's not on disc. It's the 21st Century, baby! Like most media, comics can come in different forms these days. 

The line-up of the latest volume.

Here's what David Lloyd had to say about the anniversary of the comic...

"I am pleased to tell you that today Aces Weekly marks its 3rd birthday! It's  entertained readers with some of the best comics creators from around the globe in 18 Volumes of fantastic storytelling, and there are no plans for it to stop. Aces Weekly will be celebrating this happy event with a very special deal for buyers that will be announced very soon today! Meanwhile, we raise a glass to all our current readers and subscribers to thank them for their continuing custom and support, and to all our terrific Aces, who have made Aces Weekly the most amazing and varied, and radical and revolutionary, and extraordinary anthology of comics that can be found anywhere in the world! Cheers! www.acesweekly.co.uk."

As for the special deal that David mentions, they're Birthday Box Sets. You'll find it revealed on the Aces Weekly website at the line above.

As a sometimes-contributor to Aces Weekly myself with all-new Combat Colin strips I'm pleased to see it celebrating another anniversary and I look forward to contributing again in the future.

Psycho Gran is back this week!

Artist/writer David Leach has created an all-new five page Psycho Gran strip for the latest edition of award-winning digital anthology Aces Weekly. The story, entitled Psycle, sees Psycho Gran encounter the bane of pedestrians, - a selfish cyclist who rides on footpaths. It won't end well... for him!

It's a great little strip that's sure to entertain fans of Psycho Gran who have followed her since the days of Oink! comic. You'll find it in this week's issue, Aces Weekly Volume 16, No.7.  Don't forget that Combat Colin was in last week's issue, so if you subscribe to Volume 16 for just £6.99 you'll get Psycho Gran, Combat Colin, and a load of other all-new strips too. Why not give it a go? Here's the link:
http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/   

Don't forget that Psycho Gran also appears in her own one-off digital comic, available on Comixology. More info here:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/psycho-gran-returns-in-her-own-comic.html

Aces! Combat Colin returns again!

Early this morning I completed a brand new Combat Colin three page strip and thanks to the wonders of technology it's now live online in the latest issue of Aces Weekly! (Vol.16 No.6).

As most of you will know, Combat Colin was a strip I did for Marvel UK's Action Force and Transformers comics in the late 1980s and Marvel returned the rights to me when the strip ended. I've used him in a few places since, including two earlier issues of Aces Weekly. This latest new adventure sends Colin (and his loyal assistant Semi-Automatic Steve) into space to deal with a giant asteroid shaped like a bottom! The Ass-Teroid! Yes, the strip's as daft as ever!

For those of you wishing there were more British anthology weeklies around, Aces Weekly is just for you. Six all-new stories every issue from an ever-changing line-up of top comic creators. All the strips are creator-owned and we receive payment via a percentage of sales so subscribing means you're actively helping the creators not a big company. Each volume of seven issues costs just £6.99, so you're getting each issue for a quid. Bargain!

The onscreen comic is now up to volume 16. Here's how the Aces Weekly website describes it...

ACES WEEKLY- the multi-award-winning, exclusively onscreen - NO PRINTING - comic art magazine published by David Lloyd - the guy who brought you V FOR VENDETTA. We come to you every Monday in seven-part volumes of serials and short stories by some of the finest comic creators on the globe. We've won the Best Digital Comic prize in Pipedream Comics annual poll, and Best Web-Based Comic in the True Believers Awards, inaugurated in celebration of the legendary Stan Lee!

Volume 16 is our latest, seven-week extravaganza! Subscribe at BUY right now!  And grab any or all our Previous Volumes there, too!  See tasters at STORIES and listed contents via BUY. Each of our Previous Volumes has over 200 pages plus Extras, and features our exclusive Week-to-Week facility, which transforms any volume's serialized content into a continuous narrative - comic-book length, but without the advertising!

Our terrific Aces include, JOHN MCCREA, PHIL HESTER, MARK WHEATLEY, MARC HEMPEL, DAVID LLOYD, SHAKY KANE, DAVE HINE, KEV HOPGOOD, YISHAN LI, HERB TRIMPE, BATTON LASH, VAL MAYERIK, JAMES HUDNALL, KAT LAYNO, HENRY FLINT, PAUL MAYBURY, ALAIN MAURICET, LEW STRINGER, DAVID LEACH, RACHAEL SMITH, LAURA SCARPA, and many more.

Subscribing not only gets you over 20 pages of great comic art every week for LESS than one pound, but also free entry into regular prize draws for collectibles and original artwork!

Check out our  FREE SAMPLES to try us for size, and see us at   facebook.com/acesweekly  for more info and news.  You can also find us at our growing blog :  www.acesweeklyblog  

Join us and enjoy us now : )

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/

The Guardian plugs Aces Weekly

Top digital comic Aces Weekly has received a nice plug in today's issue of The Guardian in their Guide arts section. Their comic feature Strip Advisor is otherwise about American comics so it's good to see UK anthology title Aces Weekly promoted. The feature is also online and you can read it here:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/21/strip-advisor-comics-review

Any promo for Aces Weekly helps, as it's sometimes forgotten when people talk about modern professional British comics. Each 7 issue volume of the comic is only £6.99 and volume 15 is about to start. You can read more about it at the official website where you can buy and read the issues:

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/

Don't forget that there's an all-new Combat Colin three pager in Aces Weekly Vol.1 No.1 and Vol.8 No.7, and I'll soon be working on another one for a future issue!

DUCKLESS is coming to Aces Weekly!

Marc Jackson is a humour artist/writer who emerged onto the comics scene in 2011 with his self-published comic Man From Space (which I reviewed here). Then last summer he debuted in The Beano with his own strip Lenny the Lettuce. Now he's set to join the ranks of creators in award-winning digital comic Aces Weekly with a brand new strip, Duckless.

"The strip is about the adventures of a young guy, called Duckless and his friends" says Marc. "Duckless draws the comic we are reading, so he affects the world around himself with his imagination. Everything you see is happening, it’s his imagination running wild to create a more exciting life for himself. It’s kind of like Peanuts mixed with Calvin & Hobbes and Adventure Time I suppose."

Marc's sent me an advance look at a page of Duckless to show above. Very distinctive and stylish stuff. The clarity of line, colour palate and borderless panel design  reminds me of a modern day Gold Key humour comic. Good stuff.  

Duckless starts in Volume 15 of Aces Weekly, available in March.  

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/

Marc's website: http://www.creativehero.co.uk/

A good week to buy ACES WEEKLY!

If you still haven't tried Aces Weekly yet there's never been a better time! As a special offer this week, publisher David Lloyd is offering Aces Weekly Volume 1 at half price! That's seven digital issues of all-new material for just £3.49! Who can argue against 50p a comic? Go Aces! 

Here's the info David sent me....

Friends,
We love you! Yes we do! And because of that, on this Valentine's Day, and until 12 midnight UK-time on Feb 20th, you can get Aces Weekly Volume One for half-price! JUST £3.49/$4.99/€3.99 for the one where it all began - with the stupendous Mark Wheatley, Phil Hester, John McCrea, David Lloyd, Jeff Vaughan, David Hitchcock, Alain Mauricet, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Lew Stringer, Dave Jackson, Esteban Hernandez, Carl Critchlow, David Leach, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybrid, Phil Elliott, and Rory Walker, in over 200 amazing pages!
Go to www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop to buy Volume One, fill in the form, but then DON'T click the full-price pay button. Instead pay half-price directly via Paypal to lforlloyd@aol.com!
If you're a current subscriber who just missed getting Volume One, then it's yours half-price, too, by just purchasing through your usual account.
And then... you get all this and more... with our love... : )

Vote Aces!

If you're a reader of top digital comic Aces Weekly (and if you're not, check it out here) it'd be great if you could take a few seconds to vote for it in the Pipedream Comics Digital Comic of the Year Awards at this link:
https://www.wedgies.com/question/54a1cbc077f94c0200006252 

Publisher David Lloyd constantly works hard to promote Aces Weekly which includes a huge array of comics creators. I've contributed a couple of brand new Combat Colin strips to it myself and will hopefully do another one this year.

Your support would be very much appreciated. The poll closes at midday on January 7th. Vote Aces!  

It's convention weekend!

It's the London Film and Comic Con this weekend at Earls Court and the event promises an impressive array of guests. Amongst the many names there you'll find Carrie Fisher, John Hurt, Bernard Cribbins, Jenna Coleman, Charlie Higson, Emma Vieceli, Jessica Martin, Mark Buckingham, Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, David Hine, Mike Collins, Gail Simone, Bryan Talbot, Hunt Emerson, Chris Weston, and even the legendary Stan Lee!

If you drop by the Aces Weekly table (manned by mighty David Lloyd) you'll be able to take advantage of the subscription incentive of buying a unique hand-drawn sketch card which contains a secret code on the back. Type in that code at the Aces Weekly website and you'll have access to a full volume of the digital weekly to read on your PC, laptop or tablet. You can choose your card by various artists. Here are the 12 recent ones I drew the other day...

I'll have a table at the event but a reminder that I'm only going to be there on Saturday. If you're attending, please stop by my table for a chat and perhaps buy a sketch of whatever character of mine you'd like me to draw. I'll also be selling copies of my 2005 book Brickman Begins!  Here's a photo of me at last year's show, taken at a deliberately wonky angle by Debbie Tate. 

Hope to see you there!