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Chronicle Chamber's annual poll on Frew 's phans' phavourites results revealed here! We now know what you loved about Frew Publications last year, as you the phans voted on your best Frew issues, stories and covers, produced and published under the extraordinary circumstances of a COVID affected 2021. After another huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2021 results are below, and are discussed in detail in our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode #209 - Our Best of

In a bumper 2 hour podcast Jermayn Parker , Dan Fraser and Stephen East go over their favourites for 2021 from around the world. Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra also give us their favourites. We cover every country, every publisher and every comic. 10 countries, 100+ comics and 20+ new stories is a lot and even through a pandemic, 2021 has been a good Phantom year. In December we started the competition for the best of Frew of 2021 and we go over the results including drawing

Anyone reading Dudley Hogarth 's Message From The Publisher in the FREW editions published through 2021, particularly in the latter third of the year, will have some small understanding of the difficulties faced by the relatively small Australia publisher through a second COVID affected year. Based in a city that went through over 100 days of lockdown from June to October, dealing with key staff working from home, a disrupted postal services and supply issues, FREW neverthel

The trade paperback from Frew Publications is now available to buy from their website plus comic book stores and book shops. Attached is our detailed review of the book plus the seven stories inside. Our review of the board game will come soon. This is the fourth Frew TPB and follows the standard layout with the other three that does not disappoint with a slick, professional and eye catching presentation that makes it a TPB die hard and casual phans a-like will want to buy

So which were the most popular Frew stories and covers published in 2018? After a huge response from the phans the Best of Frew 2018 survey has been run and won, and many of you will have already heard the results on Episode #109 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast . However today we're releasing the full set of results in written form so you can sit back and take it all in at your leisure! We were blown away by the entries - over 300 responses to the survey just about melted

After what has been a very busy month in the CC Team's non-phantom part of their lives we have now published episode #104 of X Band: The Phantom Podcast. In this episode Jermayn, Dan and Steve are joined by author and board game designer Dale Maccanti. Dale shares the latest news relating to The Phantom board game and also joins in with the phellas as they review Frew's 2nd Trade Paperback, "The Man Who Cannot Die". The team also review and talk with Dale about his work on

Ever since the news dropped about a potential Phantom board game back in X-Band 85, phans around the world have been clamouring for more information. Thankfully the design team of Alex Wynnter and Dale Maccanti have been very forthcoming, joining us in each of the last two Comics and News episodes of the podcast . With Episode 89 dropping earlier tonight, phans are becoming a little more aware of the gameplay, which sounds like it is heavily built around players avoidin