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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 the

For our Merry Phantoming (Christmas) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast we decided to have some phun. We created a quiz to celebrate the festive season. The quiz was open for a live participation with phans from around the world and then afterwards open for all. While we only received three participants on the night, we had over 100 phans have a go at the quiz afterwards. The top ten who got the most answers correct are: Indian 30,477 Seuj 28,464 Mase 25,934 Marcus 24,579 Callum 22,

This podcast is just shy of 16 minutes - maybe our shortest EVER! Jermayn Parker, Dan Fraser and Stephen East talk about some of their favourite Frew issues, covers and stories and then hand over to Frew creator Matt Kyme as he gives us his top three issues and stories for the year. To vote for your favourite Frew cover, issue and story for the year follow the link below: CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE We would love to hear from you on what you think of what we discuss

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

Another bumper (and long) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast as we look back at the comics and Phantom related news that have come out in November and December 2021. Sit back with a glass of milk and let us have some phun! Mikael Lyck, Ankit Mitra review comics from Sweden and India and are joined by regulars Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser. If two hours is too long for you, below is a list of topics that was discussed including their time stamps for you to pick and choo

Phans have long suggested strongly that Frew Publications needed to hire a social media manager to take control of their accounts and promote the character and their products better. It is unfair for Dudley Hogarth and Glenn Ford to do that on top of producing comics and merchandise for us to buy. Finally something has happened and Frew have now hired someone who can help them. This is a quick interview with Trenton Ryder the social media manager hired to take Frew into th

Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker are joined by Moonstone and Frew cover and story artist Lou Manna. It was a great phun podcast as we chatted about his 15+ year career with The Phantom which started off with stories and covers for Moonstone and then a decade later a two part story for Frew that was originally created for Moonstone. For fans you will be greatly excited about a couple of other stories awaiting to be published including one by two phans Peter Steven and Jaime Diaz

Another bumper (and long) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast as we look back at the comics and Phantom related news that have come out in October 2021. Mikael Lyck, Ankit Mitra review comics from Sweden and India and are joined by regulars Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser. If two hours is too long for you, below is a list of topics that was discussed including their time stamps for you to pick and choose. We do recommend listening to the whole podcast though. Frew Publica

Fantomen editor Andreas Eriksson joins us in episode #201. He introduces himself, his role and how its different to past editor Mikael Sol (His interview in episode #116). After that Andreas goes through what we readers can expect for Fantomen 2022 which includes a new publication released in the first half of next year plus many more tid bits that should excite every reader and phan. One of the cool things was that some past creators will be back - who would you like to see

Jason Paulos, is one of the most prolific Frew creators and we have not had him on since 2016 in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #65 when we where introduced to the Phantom by Gaslight series. We learn all about Jason including his history of comic creation including great stories of receiving a photocopy of art from Glenn Lumsden (Glenns Podcast Interview) as a kid and photocopying his first comics while stuck in an office job. One of the interesting parts was when Jason showed

We manage to get the podcast under two hours as we review 6 weeks of comics from Frew Publications and Fantomen by regulars Jermayn Parker, Dan Fraser and Stephen East with input by Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra. plus all the latest Phantom news from around the world across five continents with new comics from around the world, items to buy for Christmas, a new kickstarter campaign to follow plus much more. Stephen East goes on a long run up to digest the three part saga of the