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Comic Book Review – Black Road #2

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Zeb Larson reviews Black Road #2… The Viking North is an occupied war zone and Magnus the Black is the fixer for Papal Rome. Something about this issue of Black Road didn’t grab me. The first issue had a certain austere bleakness that was appropriate, but it also had the power of the tension between […]

Comic Book Review – The Fix #2

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Emma Withington reviews The Fix #2… From the creators of The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber), comes a story of the crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run things—and the sex toy that can bring them all down. Oh, and the hero is a drug-sniffing beagle named Pretzels. Bad people […]

Comic Book Review – The Wicked + The Divine #19

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Zeb Larson reviews The Wicked + The Divine #19… “RISING ACTION,” Part Two Gods of the Underworld, in the Underworld. Perfectly safe now. Definitely. Stuff definitely doesn’t explode. That doesn’t happen. This issue of The Wicked + The Divine is a deeper read than you might initially give it credit for. I won’t lie that […]

Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #21

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Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #21… “BOUND BY BLOOD,” Part One Alice now knows that the Nailbiter is her father. Does that mean she will grow up to be a serial killer? What’s the problem with building a book built out of cliffhangers? Eventually, you realize that you’re not dangling from a cliff, and that you’re […]

Comic Book Review – East of West #28

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Mark Allen reviews East of West #28… “THE FALL OF THE WHITE TOWER” The end of the Union, the fall of the Chosen. It’s becoming increasingly hard to tell what East of West is actually about any more. Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin’s apocalypse saga has been loafing towards its thematic conclusion with […]

Comic Book Review – Plutona #5

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Mark Allen reviews Plutona #5… MINI-SERIES CONCLUSION With the kids torn apart and lost in the woods, nothing can prepare them for what happens next. The startling conclusion to PLUTONA, with an ending that no one will see coming! Trust Jeff Lemire to tell a superhero story that ends with teenagers knifing each other. The […]

Comic Book Review – The Hunt #1

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Tony Black reviews The Hunt #1… Dream or reality? For a long time, teenager Orla Roche couldn’t tell them apart, and now THE HUNT is coming with its nightmare world of the restless dead. An intense story of survival, THE HUNT is a supernatural horror tale that will give Irish mythology a distinctly modern twist. […]

Image cooks up thrills with Cannibal

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Image Comics have announced that New York Times bestselling author Brian Buccellato (Sons of the Devil, The Flash, Injustice), Jennifer Young, and artist Matias Bergara (Sons of Anarchy) are teaming up for the southern-gothic horror series Cannibal set to launch this October. “It’s about a Florida town that is just trying to hold onto their everyday lives […]