Hey, how about that, I’m getting pretty good at this remembering-to-self-promote lark, aren’t I?

This week, Comic Heroes #3 has been released, and can be found at all good comic shops and WH Smiths stores. And probably in other places too. I don’t know, I got a free copy which arrived in the post. You know how it is.

This issue I don’t have any features in it, mainly because it filled up while I was still writing my stuff for issue #2 – but you can find, on pages 12-13, the first instalment of my regular look ahead to the season’s big new releases, covering September, October and November – the time the issue’s on shelves.

I’m especially pleased because a terrible joke I put in the article (you have to buy it to read it) got an editor’s comment, of the kind I used to love reading back in the days when I would spend my weekends glued to issues of Commodore Format. I always sort of assumed they were fake! (That’s because some are. - Ed)

Stuff not by me in the issue includes interviews with Robert Kirkman and Grant Morrison, features on both Sandman and Charles Vess, and a look at the UK small press scene-that’s-not-a-scene. I can say, with interests fully declared, that this is the best issue yet. Oh, and you can get some Walking Dead badges and a double-sided Wonder Woman/Superman poster as well, if you’re into that.

Happily, from this issue you can also order subscription to the magazine, which I hope will means a long and fruitful life for it – especially since subscribers get £2 knocked off the cover price, which I know many people are a little put off by. The next issue is due in December, which I should have a couple of things in, and in the mean time there’s more information to be found at the Comic Heroes Facebook page, and the SFX website.