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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

We have created a New Years Resolution that we all can get around & ensure we follow through. Lets read back issue Phantom comics

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

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

Mikael Lyck is joined by regulars Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker in reviewing the latest comics and news from Australia, Sweden and around the world. With the team at Chronicle Chamber releasing other topical podcasts it meant the normal practice of a comics and news podcast once a month did not happen. Here we present a review of the comics from May and June. Episode #192B will contain all the news from the past two months. We also discuss the latest happenings with the Sunda

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It is The Phantoms 85th Birthday - on this day back in 1936, something amazing happened with the debut of a comic strip in the newspapers that has changed the world and many peoples lives. We at Chronicle Chamber have celebrated the birthday by talking about each of the decades in detail and going over what we believe are the key moments through out the Phantoms history. Have a listen and tell us what you agree with and do not agree with. Have we missed any

It may be only be a month since our last comics and news podcast but with a heap of news and four comics to review there is plenty to talk about. Who are we kidding? We love chatting Phantom and you love listening to us - its a perfect match. As some may only want to listen to parts of the podcast, we have included a time stamp of each topic. Either way, I hope you enjoy the podcast. We have also included links to each piece of news so if you want more information you can cli

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2020? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2020 survey has been run and won. Today we're pleased to be releasing the results, both here and in conjunction with our "Best of 2020" podcast. Once again we were blown away by the entries - over 210 responses in all. It's great to see so many phans, new and old, getting involved. Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to