The Biodegradable apocalypse!

As a new year slithers purposefully towards us, the time of the Biodegradable apocalypse is at hand!

Issue 22, due out in September 2018, will be the last planned issue of 100% Biodegradable...but we'll be going out with a bang!  In fact, issues 20 to 22 have had to have their page count expanded (but not their price) just so we can fit all the carnage in.  There'll be classic strips from the likes of Alan Burrows, Alan Grant, Ian Edginton and many of our regulars, such as Brett Burbridge, Dave Thomson and Tony Suleri.

With such quality contributions on the cards, why is 100% Biodegradable ending, you might ask.  Well, it was always my intention to aim for the 5 year mark, and with issue 22 I'll have achieved just that.  Much as I'd love to keep the comic going, editing 100% Biodegradable is ridiculously time consuming and I rarely have a moment spare to get any writing done.  As well as the next Death Duty and Skowdogs series, I have several novels to finish off, more sitcoms to write, and various other comic mini-series to plan and release.

So, 2018 will be the year the comic beast died...though there's nothing to stop 100% Biodegradable crawling back out of its grave at some point in the future, once I've cleared my schedule a bit (after all, you can't keep a good undead hell-beast down).

To all the creators, readers, and reviewers who've supported 100% Biodegradable over the last 4 years, you have my deepest gratitude.  You have helped make it a comic that I'm extremely proud of, and I look forward to actually having the time to re-read past issues without the next issue's deadline looming on the horizon.

Before I sign off for the year, here's a preview of some of the strips appearing in 100% Biodegradable's last three issues.  As you'll see, there's still plenty to look forward to.

- Dave Hailwood

Funguys by Alan Grant and Alan Burrows

Time Waits by David Hailwood, Gary O' Donnell and Anne-Marie Webb

Rumblebot Rampage by Tim West and Edward R. Norden

Biodegradable Collection 4...and more!

The 4th 100% Biodegradable print Collection, which collects selected strips from issues 15-18 of the digital anthology, is out now on Drivethru!

The 110 page collection features 15 strips from professional creators, indie regulars and promising newcomers across the UK and abroad, including Liam McCormack Sharp (Wonder Woman, X-Men), John Freeman (Judge Dredd Megazine, Dr Who), Brett Burbridge (Sliced Quarterly), Alan Burrows (2000ad, Commando), Mats Engesten (The Final Deathrace), Tony Suleri (Slumdroid, Bulletproof) and many more.

You can buy it at the following link, for just $12/£9:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/226489/100-Biodegradable-Collection-4

And in celebration of its release, there's also a special '3 for 2' bundle available for a limited time, containing 100% Biodegradable Collections 1-3 for just $24/£18!

Over 350 pages worth of comics carnage from the likes of Dan Cornwell, Jim Alexander, Kek-W, Lukasz Kowalczuk, Dave Thomson and many more.

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/228539/Three-For-Two-BUNDLE

100% Biodegradable 19...slithering out of a radioactive lake near you!

The latest issue of 100% Biodegradable has just been released on Comicsy and Drivethru, under a gloriously insane carnage filled wrap around cover by the Master Of Madness Lukasz Kowalczuk!

Inside issue 19 of 100% Biodegradable: A seaside clash between Mods and Rockers is met with nuclear retaliation in Mods Versus Mutants by David Hailwood, Neil Bryant and Tony Suleri.  

Captain Jerry Kowalski breaks out of the nut house and straight into a sanity-bending military mission in Off The Reservation by Chris Sides, P.L.Woods, Liam O’ Connor and Ken Reynolds. 

An ancient alien life form makes first contact with Scotland’s finest in part five of Skowdogs by John Freeman, David Hailwood, Dave Thomson and Ken Reynolds.  

An obsessive autograph hunter visits hell to seek favour from the devil in Sam Quadrant by Shaun Avery and Dave Snell.  

A psychotic headless chocolate addicted android assassin takes exception at a pushy client interrupting his cartoon hour in David Hailwood and Dave Thomson’s Faceless.

And the golden age of flight is brought to a swift standstill by a pernickety Traffic Warden in Fight Or Flight by David Hailwood and Brett Burbridge.

The digital anthology is 37 pages, full colour, and available for just 69p at the following links:

Drivethru:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/228489/100-Biodegradable-19

Comicsy:

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/biomekazoik/store/products/100-biodegradable-issue-19-digital-download/

A release will follow on both ComiXology and the Comichaus App.  In the meantime, you can download/view previous issues here:

https://www.comixology.co.uk/100-Biodegradable/comics-series/17594

https://www.comichaus.com/app/

Biodegradable In Da Comichaus

All 18 issues of 100% Biodegradable are now available to read on the newly launched Comichaus app - a streaming comic book app for Android and Apple devices.



Touted as 'the Netflix for comics', the app is free to download and includes a two week free trial.

There's hundreds of terrific Indie comics already included on the app, such as Ken Reynold's supernatural steampunk 'Cognition' series, Jon Laight's super heroic 'Brethren Born' and Jimmy Furlong's delightfully titled 'Shit Flingers' anthology. So, follow the link below and get speed reading now!



https://www.comichaus.com/app/

Issue 18 is out now!

Issue 18 of 100% Biodegradable has just been released on Comicsy and Drivethru, alongside a rather lovely front cover by Brett Burbridge.

Inside issue 18: Paranormal Investigator 'Daversham Rex' attempts to solve the murder of a recently resurrected femme fatale, a fare dodger accidentally boards a train bound for hell in 'Bad Conduct' by David Hailwood, Mats Engesten and John Robbins, a pregnant woman on the run seeks refuge with a mysterious order of nuns in 'Nuns of Travena' by Jordan Sam Adams, Denis Vermesse and Ken Reynolds, the crew of the Skow 709 make contact with ugly alien life whilst escaping even uglier mercenaries in the fourth part of ‘Skowdogs’ by John Freeman, David Hailwood, Dave Thomson and Ken Reynolds.  All this, and more!

The anthology is 36 pages, colour and b/w, and available at the following links for just 69p:

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/biomekazoik/store/products/100-biodegradable-issue-18-digital-download/

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/221842/100-Biodegradable-18

A ComiXology release will follow at a later date.  In the meantime, you can grab previous issues here:

https://www.comixology.co.uk/100-Biodegradable/comics-series/17594

Right, time to get cracking on the next print collection which will contain many strips from issues 15-18 and hopefully be released before the end of the year.

Dan Cornwell is...Judge Dredd!

...Well, alright, he's not actually Judge Dredd (as the photo below will attest.  Hardly regulation uniform!), but he is drawing a 5 part Dredd strip written by the mighty John Wagner which debuts in 2000ad next wednesday.

In celebration of this monumental achievement, issues 8 and 12 (which contain 'The Last Batch' by Chris Sides, Dan Cornwell and Ken Reynolds, and 'Area 101' by Chris Redfern and Dan Cornwell) are free on Drivethru for the next week!

You can download them at the following links:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/145662/100-Biodegradable-8

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/178076/100-Biodegradable-12

And check out a preview of Dan's Dredd strip on Lew Stringer's comic blog here:

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/dan-cornwell-makes-his-2000ad-debut.html

Don't forget to pick up a copy of 2000ad on Wednesday!

Xmas In July Sale!

As part of Drivethru Comics' Xmas In July sale, for the next week there's 25% off all but the latest issue of 100% Biodegradable.

Grab the comics here whilst they're cheaper than a Mars bar, and twice as tasty! (disclaimer: the comics are digital - please don't actually eat them)

And if ridiculously cheap comics are still too pricey for you, the latest issue of Ken Reynolds' experimental comic anthology Sliced Quarterly is out now (with a brilliantly designed cover by Lukasz Kowalczuk). You can download it for free here.

Wrap around Rourke

With issue 17 of 100% Biodegradable preparing to slither out of the cracks between worlds and emerge into the light, here's a quick peek at the lovely wrap around 'Rourke Of The Radlands' cover by Bill Storie and Brett Burbridge.

Originally created by John Freeman (Judge Dredd Megazine, Crucible) and Liam Sharp (Batman, Wonder Woman) for Marvel UK's 'Strip' comic in the 90's, Rourke proved so popular that there was even talk of doing a mini-series featuring popular characters from the Marvel universe.

Liam Sharp's faxes, featuring Rourke, Monark Starstalker and Wolverine.

Sadly Marvel UK ceased to be before that could happen, though the original Rourke strip was reprinted in Issue 16 of 100% Biodegradable, after a brand new lick of paint from Brett Burbridge.

You can read more about the history of Rourke and Marvel UK on John Freeman's Down The Tubes.

Issue 17 of 100% Biodegradable features Rourke's first brand new solo outing in over 20 years, ably illustrated by Bill Storie (Spaceship Away, Sci Fi Art Now), scripted by David Hailwood and John Freeman, coloured by Brett Burbridge and lettered by Ken Reynolds.

The new issue will be available later today, so keep your eyes peeled!

Issue 17 preview

With Issue 17 of 100% Biodegradable nearing completion, here's a preview of some of the strips appearing inside.

In Capsule by Brian Pearlman and Armin Ozdic (with colours by Liam O'Connor and letters by Ken Reynolds) a musician seeks shelter from the rain in a hotel from hell.

In Waste Of Time by Tony Suleri and David Hailwood, a scientist solves mankind's waste crisis by using the past as a dumping ground...with dire consequences!

In the third part of Skowdogs (written by John Freeman and David Hailwood, and illustrated by Dave Thomson), the crew of the Skow face off against an ancient alien race, deadly mercenaries, and technology gone haywire. 

And in the concluding part of Alan Burrows and Paul H Birch's Switchblade, the titular character finds himself up to his neck in giant psychotic dentistry obsessed mutant germs!

Previous issues of the digital sci-fi anthology are available to buy for just 69p/$0.99 at the following places:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/browse/pub/6130/Biomekazoik

https://www.comixology.co.uk/100-Biodeg…/comics-series/17594

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/biomekazoik/

Comixology Carnage!

Issue 16 of 100% Biodegradable is out now on ComiXology!

Recently awarded 8.3 out of 10 on Fanboy Nation, and described as 'some of the best science fiction storytelling outside of 2000ad' on Pop Culture Bandit, the latest issue features a whole wealth of sci-fi and fantasy carnage from the likes of Liam Sharp (Wonder Woman, X-Men, Batman), John Freeman (Judge Dredd Megazine, Crucible), Brett Burbridge (Octal, Sliced Quarterly), Alan Burrows (Eagle, 2000ad), Paul H Birch (Toxic, Creepy Kofy Movie Time), Luciano Fleitas (H-alt, The Chronicles Of Terror) Paul Bradford (H-alt, Indie Comics) and more.

Issue 16 of the quarterly digital anthology is available for just $0.99/69p at the following links:

Comixology: https://www.comixology.co.uk/100-Biodegradable-Vol…/…/506359

Comicsy: http://www.comicsy.co.uk/…/100-biodegradable-issue-16-digi…/

Drivethru: http://www.drivethrucomics.com/…/208262/100-Biodegradable-16

100% Biodegradable 16 - out now!

Issue 16 of the 36 page quarterly sci-fi anthology 100% Biodegradable has just launched on Comicsy and Drivethru (with a ComiXology release to follow at a later date).

Inside the issue:

Almost exactly 27 years after its original publication in Marvel UK's 'Strip', Liam Sharp (Wonder Woman, X-Men, Batman) and John Freeman's 'Rourke Of The Radlands' returns, with a brand new lick of digital paint from Brett Burbridge!  

This won't be the last we see of Rourke, either.  Bill Storie and Brett Burbridge are currently hard at work illustrating a brand new Rourke strip (scripted by John Freeman and David Hailwood) for issue 17.

Also inside issue 16...A Mars base gets infected by a deadly alien parasite in Paul Bradford (Octal, Hallowscream) and Luciano Fleitas' (H-alt, The Chronicles Of Terror) haunting sci-fi tale 'The Ides Of Mars'.

Luciano's artwork is pretty damned gorgeous, and if you fancy drooling over more of it, check out his deviant art page.

The crew of the Skow 709 run a gauntlet of ancient alien deathtraps in the second part of 'Skowdogs' - a brand new 8 part series by John Freeman (Judge Dredd Megazine, Crucible) and Dave Thomson (The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel, Dr WTF?).   

Switchblade gains a new client as giant mutated germs infest the city in the second part of a 3 part series by Alan Burrows (Eagle, 2000ad), Paul H.Birch (Toxic, Creepy Kofy Movie Time) and Steve Harrison (Fast Car magazine, The Sunday Sport)  

And finally, in an attempt to tackle spiralling crime rates, the police force unleash a bizarre  group of mutants and super freaks to dispense their own unique brand of criminal justice...The Odd Squad by David Hailwood and Tony Suleri.

Grab the latest issue on Comicsy here or Drivethru here for just 69p/$0.99!

Bottoms up, old chums!

For those still chasing the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, 100% Biodegradable 8 is free for the weekend on Drivethru, and the second print collection (containing Chris Sides and Dan Cornwell's brilliant St. Patrick's Day zombie strip 'The Last Batch') has been reduced in price to just $7 (less than £6 for 110 pages of carnage!)

Grab yourself a bargain!

Print Collection:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/198700/100-Biodegradable-Collection-2

Issue 8 Freebie:

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/145662/100-Biodegradable-8

And keep your eyes peeled for preview pages from the upcoming 100% Biodegradable Issue 16, due out very soon indeed!