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Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #17

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Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #17… NEW STORY ARC. A brutal new serial killer strikes! Nailbiter takes us in a new direction with this story arc, mostly leaving Buckaroo behind to focus on the new killer in Atlanta. In a lot of respects, this new direction is a good thing, a chance to leave behind the […]

Comic Book Review – Paper Girls #2

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Zeb Larson reviews Paper Girls #2… The hottest new ongoing series of the year continues, as the Paper Girls witness the impossible. Saying” the plot thickens” in Paper Girls #2 would be a polite way of saying that the story has gotten even crazier in this issue. I’m confident saying that I have no idea […]

Comic Book Review – Black Science #17

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Zeb Larson reviews Black Science #17… A bold new era in BLACK SCIENCE begins! New arc! New direction! New readers: join the Dimensionauts in a psychedelic journey of the soul! Black Science is back, and issue #17 raises far more questions than it answers, a challenge given the massive cliffhanger that it left us with. […]

Comic Book Review – Rebels #7

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Zeb Larson reviews Rebels #7… Rebels #7 offers a one-issue look at the folk legend of Molly Pitcher but through a completely fictional woman, Sarah Hull. Pitcher is a legend or composite tale of a woman who served in battle, her name likely because of her role as a pitcher-bearer of water. In discussing Hull, […]

Comic Book Review – Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5

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Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5… And now Roche Limit: Clandestiny has come to its end, its conclusion significantly raising the stakes for the third and final volume of this series. The survivors of the group realize that the malevolent beings they’ve found want to make their way to Earth, and the survivors plus […]

Comic Book Review – Paper Girls #1

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Zeb Larson reviews Paper Girls #1… All right Paper Girls, you managed to hook me on the first issue. Set in 1988 in suburban Cleveland, it is about four paper girls who stumble upon a very weird mystery. This book has a lot going for it: strong, sassy female leads, a science-fiction premise which resists […]

Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #16

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Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #16… Nailbiter is up to its old tricks, by which I mean that we have another issue of stalling on plot advancement, boring pseudo-revelations, and action that doesn’t add up to much of anything. The last issue actually went somewhere, which got me hoping that we would finally see some forward […]