This week, on Wednesday/Thursday depending on which side of the pond you're on, issue five of Captain Britain and MI-13 will be in your comic shops. It acts as both an epilogue to 'The Guns of Avalon' and a prologue to 'Hell Comes to Birmingham', and features the lovely art of Pat Olliffe, who's doing this one issue, very much in the spirit of our established art style, to keep us absolutely on schedule. It's been great to get Pat's pages and Leonard's for issue six arriving in my inbox at the same time. Leonard's with us for the duration, don't worry!

Here's an interview with six pages of Pat's art from the issue, including the first appearance of Blade, and the fantastic Bryan Hitch cover for issue seven:

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18038

And as always, this blog will be the issue's letter's page, so let me know what you think.

In other news, I've got a piece about my continuing love for Doctor Who, which appears with a number of other nostalgic and glowing features on the same subject in issue 176 of SFX magazine, on sale October 22nd.. Do look out for it.

And I was delighted to encounter, at the weekend, these puppets, made and operated by Julia Houghton and Jason Lythgoe-Hay, of the Tenth Doctor and Donna. Not for commercial purposes, mind: these are labours of love. I've only seen one other like this, the work of the fabulous Mrs. David in New York.



I hope to see some of you in Birmingham, the weekend after next. Until then, Cheerio!