Publisher: sequential media publishing
Writers: Steve Laming, Jamie Hailstone, Tony Ingram, Glenn Fleming,
Editor: Glenn Fleming
Release date: OUT NOW!
Price: FREE COPY HERE: https://view.publitas.com/sequential-media-publishing/comics-unlimited-free-issue-zero/page/1
Comics Unlimited #1 UK: £5.00/USA: $7.50 from www.sequentialmediapublishing.com, subscription rates available.

‘Where have all the comic book magazines gone? Long time passing, where have all the comic books magazines gone, long time ago?’ Which, I believe, is the missing verse from that song. Some would chime in with: ‘The Internet has rendered them redundant, every single one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn.’

Well, the short answer is not quite nearly as redundant as you might think and what there is to learn from Comics Unlimited is this: not everything has to be website shaped, not everything has to be a blog, because here, in its entire online magazine format comes a magazine like no other. Comics Unlimited is a heady and engaging mixture of comic books subjects written not as a passing ethereal fancy for some news hungry web feed but with devotion and care; a deepness of writing slowly disappearing from article writing, devoured by our slippage into a 24/7 shallow culture of sound-bites, likes/unlikes and relentless tweets.

Don’t get me wrong and dismiss me as some old nostalgic, befuddled fool, I have no problem with social media and use it daily, (I’ll be tweeting and posting this review to FaceBook; both are signposts, not the road). All I’m indicating in Comics Unlimited is I want more than just the scraps, more than just someone else’s cute cat footage. I want the full fat, focused to infinity, revved up prose that only an online magazine like Comics Unlimited can deliver.

So, in Comics Unlimited the reader gets to do that rare internet thing: think, find food for thought and understand a lot more about comic books than are dreamt of in our current philosophies. And do not just take, say, my word for it. Click on the link and see for yourself.

Reviewer: Steve Hooker