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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate!
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The big little comics store hanging out under the stairs at Harrogate's Everyman Cinema. We love everything Comics, Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Likely to re-post about comics we like the look of. Posting mostly by Regie, store owner.
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INDEPENDENT TERRITORY! Discover the gloriously untrue adventures of Sapphira. Is she sitting alone in her flat, or is she searching for her cat on the Moon? Reading this is the only way to find out... Quirky, fun storytelling & deliciously original art. A very welcome addition to our indie racks!
Regie holds a copy of The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira tp the camera. The cover features a beautifully rendered head shot of the character of Sapphira looking out at the viewer. We'd describe her, but we think that she is deliberately looking enigmatic...
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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INDEPENDENT TERRITORY! HOW TO WATCH WILDLIFE
A beautifully illustrated comic playing how to watch the UK's incredible wildlife. A useful guide for beginners & a fun read for even the most experienced wildlife watcher, this pocket sized primer is perfect for those heading to the great outdoors!
A smiling Julie Campbell stands in front of the shelves in Destination Venus holding a copy of her comic How to Watch Wildlife.
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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INDEPENDENT TERRITORY: TOTAL RECALL OF THE HEART
In an all too plausible dystopian near future Skunk is drawn into a grimy romantic mystery that will grip you harder than a super-glued vice. Heart & romantic rebellion abound! Don't miss this devastating debut from two astonishing creatives.
Regie holds a copy of Total Recall of the Heart to the camera. The cover has a black background featuring a tatooed shirtless young man, seen from the waist up in the foreground. He holds a lit cigarette in his right hand. Behind him is the blue apparition of a seated woman, also smoking. Her left arm is draped around his shoulder.
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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That's another brilliant @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social done. Destination Venus is opening from 10am, under the stairs at Harrogate's Everyman Cinema, just in case any of you lovely Thought Bubblers want to drop in and say "hi" before you head home. Otherwise we'll see you next year!

#thoughtbubble
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Huge thanks to all the wonderful people who came to our private viewing of the @averyhill.bsky.social exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery last night. It was great to see everyone!

If you missed it the Exhibition continues until April, and there will be guided tours during Thought Bubble.
Three people stand in an art gallery surrounded by comic art. Regie stands in front of framed pages of original art from Zoe Thorogood's THE IMPENDING BLINDNESS OF BILLIE SCOTT at the Mercer Art Gallery
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Don't forget - @rachaelsmith.bsky.social's Nap Comic Kickstarter is ongoing - funny, moving,honest and profound, you don't want to miss this! Find it here: kickstarter.com/projects/flimseykitten/nap-comix
Regie holds up a flyer advertising the Nap Comic Kickstarter, the flyer features a cartoon of Rachael Smith sitting cross legged on the floor nursing her infant son. The text reads: " The Nap Comic BOOK... Is on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW: kickstarter.com/projects/flimseykitten/nap-comix
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Are you over 16, based in the UK and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption. If so, the UK Comics Creator Survey has some questions for you. All responses to the survey are completely anonymous and will help advocate for better support and more funding in comics.
An image of the UK comics survey poster which uses a blue and purple palette. There is a QR code which will take you to the survey and the logos of various UK arts funding bodies. The text reads DO YOU MAKE COMICS? Are you over 16, based in the UK, and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption? WE NEED YOU! All responses to this online survey are completely anonymous and will help us to advocate for better support and more funding in comics. UKComicsCreators.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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We stole this from @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social, but we haven't read their list yet so any matches are coincidental.

And yes, since you ask, I should indeed be working on our third quarter VAT return, which is why I'm doing this instead...
An image bearing the following text written in white on a dark background: Marvel Studios 30 Day Challenge 1. Fave male hero 2. Least fav m hero 3. Fave female gero 4. Least fav female hero 5. Fav superhero suit 6. Fav weapon 7. Fav MCU film 8. Least fav MCU film 9. Movie with best soundtrack 10. Fav fight scene 11. Fav villain 12. Least fav villain 13. Fav quote 14. Fav relationship 15. Fav couple 16. Fav MCU side character 17. Least fav side charactef 18. Fav moment 19. Funniest moment 20. Fav place 21. Fav Avengers film 22. Least fav Avengers film 23. Fav Avengers villain 24. Least fav Avengers villain 25. Saddest moment 26. Saddest character desth 27. Power you wish you had 28. Fav Stan Lee cameo 29. What was the first film that got you into the MCU? 30. Which Superhero would you like to see in future MCU films?
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Quantum (in the foreground wearing an all covering blue and white spandex suit) and Woody (in the midground, wearing a blue suit, white shirt and blue tie, along wiht blue tinted glasses) leap across the image from left to right. Behind them in the background there are explosions.
August 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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We've been meaning to do this for aaaaaaaaaaages! Yes, we are finally bringing some order to the back issue section - and getting some more exciting and affordable back issues out of storage and into the shop come down and have a browse!

#Comics #Harrogate
Regie looks at the camera, motioning to the back issue section behind him. It is strewn with bagged and boarded comics waiting to be sorted and filed for customers to browse. Behind that you can see the rest of the store in all its decopaged glory.
August 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: GHOST PEPPER
Loloi's food truck makes the best damn noodles in the wasteland left after the Great Bataar (GLORY TO BATAAR!) vanquished the evil Cinder. But she is drawn into an epic conflict, because the truth and the history the world has been taught are not entirely the same...
A close up of Regie's face, mercifully half covered by the copy of GHOST PEPPER #1 he is holding up to the camera. The cover features a white background with the title "Ghost Pepper" rendered in pale blue using a font designed to imitate brush writing. The cover features a muscular man with grey hair and beard sitting on what appears to be a Mech. The man is holding a bowl in his right hand with chopsticks in his left. In front of him is a small humanioidish robot. Behind him is a woman with long hair looking towards the viewer.
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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We are excited to support the Kickstarter for "Total Recall of the Heart" - a cyberpunk story that understands what punk is all about. Check it out at kickstarter.com/projects/1903462600/total-recall-of-the-heart-1
July 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Nice surprise in our inbox this morning, a review copy of WHO KILLED NESSIE by @paulcornell.bsky.social & @rachaelsmith.bsky.social. A great whodunnit in the finest tradition of the genre with a cryptozoological twist. As you'd expect from Rachael and Paul, it's an utter delight. Pre-Order now!
May 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: GBBO - KILL OR BE QUILT
Shauna just wanted a quiet canal holiday. But when she takes a job in a quilting shop to pay for some accidental damage to her boat she becomes embroiled in romance, murder and some seriously hard core crafting...
Cosy crime with a gentle sense of humour.
Regie holds a copy of Great British Bump Off: kill or be Quilt #1 up to the camera. The cover features a cartoonish blonde woman sitting on the upturned stern of a narrowboat as it sinks into the khaki waters of a canal. The background is drawn to suggest a quilt made of pastel squares and rectangles. The woman smiles sheepishly at the viewer, giving a thumbs-up with her left hand.
April 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Alice and Regie had great fun at The Geek Pub Quiz last night and even managed to grab a selfie with Quizsters Chris and Steve! TGPQ is back at The Everyman Cinema on Thursday (20th March) for the Geeky Movie Quiz - Don't miss it!
A smiling, cheerful bald man wearing a cream hoodle and black T Shirt bearing the capital letters TGPQ in white, an elegant bespectacled woman wearing a blue jacket, a bald, bespectacled bearded man wearing a black TGPQ T shirt and a sardonic expression and a smiling bearded man wearing a black jacket with spectacles pushed up on his head look into the camera.
March 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The stance appears to be catching...
March 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: USAGI YOJIMBO - TEN THOUSAND PLUMS
Usagi, Yukichi and Gen are arrested amongst the Shogun's prized plum trees. Strange things are afoot, the locals are in fear - can Usagi and his friends sort out this mess? A richly enthralling USAGI adventure starts here!

#Comics #Harrogate
Regie holds up a copy of Usagi Uojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #1 to the camera. The cover features Usagi (in his customary blue) and Yukochi in his usual brown,both looking stern. Yukichi has his Katana drawn and holds it in a double handed grip, blade raised, poised to strike. Usagi also holds a drawn Katana, but holds it in his right hand, blade pointing down. The background is a delicate pink with pink and white plum blossoms.
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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After hosting The Battle of the Books last week, Regie is back having too much fun at King James's School library in Knaresborough with a series of Comics making workshops with Year 8 students as part of their World Book Day celebrations. Want to get kids in your school reading more? Get in touch!
Regie stands in front of a projector screen waving his hand at the Destination Venus logo and the legend MAKING COMICS!
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Regie had a fantastic time last night hosting The Battle of the Books at King James's School in Knaresborough! 14 teams from schools not just from Harrogate and Knaresborough, but from as far away as Thirsk all keen to show off their bookish knowledge. 1/2
Regie, wearing black jeans, black jacket and a purple shirt - possibly the most colourful outfit he has ever worn in public - stands next to a whiteboard bearing the legend "Battle of the Books" with bookshelves in the background. The carpet is also decorated with books. There might be a theme developing here...
February 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: ZATANNA
DC's mighty mistress of magic returns! As she preps for her new "legit" magic show ZATANNA and her team are dragged into a dangerous battle with a once great magic user with a deadly agenda.
Spectacular art and storytelling from he brilliant Jamal Campbell - don't miss it!
Regie holds up a copy of Zatanna #1 for the camera. The cover features Zatanna, in her trademark "fishnet tights, leotard, white waistcoat, stand collar shirt, tailcoat and top hat" outfit. She is leaning back ay to the right in a dynamic pose, singing a magic want up and to the left against a backdrop of deep maroon and white.
February 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: THOSE NOT AFRAID
A deadly contest develops between two serial killers, each one within a few murders away from the record set decades ago by the "Murder Hole Killer". A washed up former Sheriff and a true crime podcaster might be all that stands in their way....
Regie holds up a copy of Those Not Afraid #1. In the foreground a young woman with bushy pigtails (I'm sure this style has a name but I have no idea what it is - think Disney Mouse Ears...) stands holding a white cat. The backgroud features head and shoulder shots of two men in profile. On the left a smiling middle aged man with longish grey hair in a faded red jacket. On the right a man wearing a sort of Pierot mask and green jacket. The final background is plain white with blood spatter.
January 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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PICKS OF THE WEEK: AQUAMAN

The King of Atlantis is back on his throne, more powerful than ever. But a new threat lurks beneath the waves, threaten4 both Atlantis and the surface world. Is Aquaman up to the challenge of saving the World again?

High octane aquatic action!

#Comics #Harrogate
Regie holds up a copy of Aquaman #1. The cover features a white background against which we see the Aquaman A logo. In front of that Aquaman himself is seen riding a shark which is biting the bottom of the A logo. Aquaman stands astride the shark's back wielding a sword made of water.
January 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

DAY 19
The cover to Enid Blyton's Five on a Treasure Island. The cover features a still from the 1970s TV adaptation. Everything is very brown. The cover has a sort of sand coloured border which surrounds the photo. The photo shows two boys inspecting some kind of small rail trolley, probably from a mine. It is upturned and half buried in sand. Between the boys, their trolley and the viewer are the rusty rails of a narrow guage railway, also half buried in sand. A black and white border collie dog prowls along the tracks.
January 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

DAY 18 (Forgot to post this yesterday...)
The cover of an older edition of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. It's essentially a background of olive green and white abstract shapes upon which are scattered black and white line drawings illustrating incidents from the story, as though they had been strewn across a table cloth. Images include but are not limited to: A parrot, A man firing a small cannon at two approaching sailing dingys, two chlidren in a rowing boat and a cormorant.
January 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

DAY 17
The cover to the Usbourne Guide to the Supernatural World. It features a painting of a jawboneless skull with vampiric dentition and red eyes in what should be empty sockets. It looks mildly cross. In the cranium is etched an outline map of the world. The title is in yellow capitals above the skull, the subtitle: Vampires, Ghosts & Mysterious Powers is in smaller white text beneath the skull's fangs. The background is solid black.
December 30, 2024 at 9:52 AM