The Ninth Eight

The Forecast for March 2nd 2005
28th February 2005
Is there life on Mars? The teenagers of Rob G and Rick Spears' excellent breakout series try to find it. Elsewhere, in other universes, Marvel butts heads with DC, and Orson Scott Card gets his man.

The Forecast for February 23rd 2005
21st February 2005
DC rules the roost this week as comics' own Pope seizes the spotlight, 2004's most famous victim returns from the dead, Alan Moore goes extra-terrestrial, and Grant Morrison soldiers ever onwards.

The Forecast for February 16th 2005
14th February 2005
Love is in the air, everywhere you look around. This week, we're loving PROMETHEA as it ships its last, we're loving great teen books from Ian Carney, Adam Warren and Brian K Vaughan, and we're loving Aunt May. But not like that.

The Forecast for February 9th 2004
7th February 2005
The always excellent Philip Bond re-teams with Grant Morrison for the writer's latest Vertigo three-parter, Image recalls the highlights of NEGATIVE BURN, and Steven Seagle tries to get to grips with Superman in this week's books.

The Forecast for February 2nd 2005
31st January 2005
Evan Dorkin's BILL & TED make a most excellent return to the comic store, and they're joined by Frank Cho's bodacious SHANNA THE SHE DEVIL and the totally non-heinous BIZARRO WORLD. Dude.

The Forecast for January 26th 2005
24th January 2005
Image unleashes some AMAZING JOY, Ellis and Cassaday go west with a new issue of PLANETARY, and Alan Moore takes to the airwaves. But Marvel is in the doghouse with controversial stories starring Spider-Man and Dardevil.

The Forecast for January 19th 2005
17th January 2005
There's a blast from the past as Milligan and Ewins' war comic BAD COMPANY comes back into print, and BAD COMPANY is in good company this week, with Bob Graham's ESCALATOR, the WANTED finale, and the DEMO scripts.

The Forecast for January 12th 2005
10th January 2005
Woah! Alex de Campi unleashes hell on DC's glut of CONSTANTINE tie-ins, but there's light in the darkness too, with the latest collection of Gail Simone's BIRDS OF PREY, and DC's reprints of THE INCAL.

The Ninth Art Lighthouse Awards 2004
10th January 2005
Ninth Art looks back over the very best from another year in comics, picking out the talents to watch out for and the books you really should be reading, in the fourth annual Ninth Art Lighthouse Awards.

The Forecast for January 5th 2005
3rd January 2005
New year, new carrot! Bob Burden relights our fire with the return of FLAMING CARROT. Plus, Larry Young brings the PROOF, Joss Whedon brings the astonishment, and Bob Harras brings back Captain Atom.

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