Blast!

    (John Brown, 1991)
™ and ©1991 John Brown Publishing, Ltd. Stories © and ™ their respective creators.

Blast is one one of the better British pop culture/comics magazines to have appeared in recent years. Although its features range from rock interviews to film previews, the majority of its pages are devoted to comics. These are presented in serial format, and include some of the best of the indies published in England and abroad. Among the most notable: Paul Chadwick’s Concrete, the well-written adventures of a poet stuck in a slablike, but ultra-powerful body; Abulli and Bernet’s Torpedo 1936, the story of a boy who eked out a hard existence in the midst of the depression, but who would grow up to be a hit man; and Charles Burn’s strange cult favorite, “Dog Boy.”
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  • 2
    #2
    Jul 1991
    Cover: $1.50
    W: Warren Ellis, Enrique Sánchez Abulí, Peter Bagge, Paul Chadwick, Michael T. Gilbert  ·  A: D’Israeli, Jordi Bernet
    Big Bertha
    2 copies from $11.95
  • 6
    #6
    Nov 1991
    Cover: $3.95
    W: Warren Ellis, Enrique Sánchez Abulí, Marta Muerta, Stan Nicholls, Paul Chadwick, Peter Bagge, Colin De Suinn  ·  A: Jordi Bernet, Yan Shimony, Dave Hine
    1 copy for $11.95