Blog: Things To Come in 2026

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As we settle ourselves gently into the still slightly too hot, and yet also not quite yet warmed up enough (METAPHORS) waters of 2026, I thought I'd have a quick think through some to the things that are hopefully on the way over the course of the next orbit around the sun. This is partly to get them out of my HEAD, but also to offer something for the me of the futuristic space year 2027 to look back upon and say "Wot was he on about?"

Obviously there will be more Data and Doctor Doom to come, not least because "Avengers: Doomsday" should FINALLY be out at the end of the year. Not only will there be more live shows (including a few as yet unannounced) but there should also be a PODCAST too. My plan is to do an AUGMENTED version of the live show, with more PRODUCED versions of the songs and indeed some EXTRA songs too, and release it as a short series so it's THERE for people who want to know more when DOOM enters the MCU. I've made a small start so far and it is sounding Quite Good!

Alongside that I'm also starting work on the NEXT big academic project, which is going to be called "Data and Judge Dredd". There's a LOT to be said about this and I'll save most of that for another time (READER'S VOICE: "PHEW!") but the general plan is to do the data gathering and analysis in the first half of this year then get it ready as a NON-ACADEMIC book which I'm hoping to SELF-PUBLISH - with another SHOW to go alongside it - in time for Dredd's anniversary in February 2027. Like I say, there's LOADS of THORTS about how this is going to work and why I'm doing it that way, but we'll save that for another time!

And then of course there's the ALBUM what I'm recording with Mr CJ Thorpe-Tracey. We're BOOKED into the studio next week to go and do some more tracks, and all being well we'll have at least one more similar session to get all the basic tracks done before we move into the exciting Putting Other Stuff On Top period, which is the BEST bit for all albums. If you've not heard it yet you can download a SNEAK PREVIEW of how it's probably going to sound via our version of Mull Of Kintyre which we recorded for the Joyzine Advent Calendar. I mean, obviously that's a song written by P McCartney and D Laine, rather than either of US, but it still sounds PRETTY GRATE! We'll also have some GIGS later in the year, at least one of which we may be able to announce fairly soon!

Finally, for this bit anyway, there's still a massive chunk of season three of The Funny Comics Fan Club still to come as well! John and I are currently just about two episodes ahead of ourselves, so I can confidently say there is some GOOD STUFF still to come as we work towards a GRAND FINALE around February time. The current thinking is that we'll stop the regular series with the end of this one, but there's still room in the future for some SPECIAL EDITIONS and, of course, changing our minds!

Those are the main THEMES for ROCK and ASSOCIATED ITEMS that I foresee over the course of 2026 but, as we know from our DELVINGS into HISTORY last year, there's always more ADVENTURES to come that you would never have thought about at the start of the year. Let's hope that they are a) KRAZY and also b) FUN!

posted 6/1/2026 by MJ Hibbett

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