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Comic Book Review – East of West #27

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Mark Allen reviews East of West #27… “FINDING BABYLON” Death gets closer to finally reuniting with his son. East of West has had pacing issues for a while now, and issue #27 exemplifies them perfectly. Many of the lead characters are missing (contrary to the synopsis above, Death doesn’t actually feature in this issue whatsoever) and […]

Comic Book Review – Throwaways #1

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Mark Allen reviews Throwaways #1… THROWAWAY (n.) 1. A disposable asset, used for a single mission; 2. A disavowed assassin, meant to die alongside their target. Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people—Abby a vet with severe PTSD and Dean a burnout trying to escape the shadow of his infamous father—when they are […]

Comic Book Review – Descender #12

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Zeb Larson reviews Descender #12… Critically-acclaimed, bestselling DESCENDER is back with “SINGULARITIES,” its next exciting arc. Learn the terrible secret origin of the vicious doppelgänger Tim-22 and what secrets shaped him into a monster. Descender is back with its twelfth issue and it feels…brief. It’s not that the issue is necessarily bad, but there really […]

Comic Book Review – Bitch Planet #8

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Zeb Larson reviews Bitch Planet #8… Kam is reunited with her sister. After the usual but still interminably long wait, Bitch Planet is finally back, and this is definitely a back-to-business kind of issue. Three major threads drive this particular issue. Kamau has begun to search for her sister in the prison, a daunting task […]

Image and Top Cow to cross over Think Tank, Postal and The Tithe with Eden’s Fall

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Image Comics and Top Cow have announced that its three-issue crossover series Eden’s Fall is set to get underway in August, combining three of Top Cow’s most provocative titles – Think Tank, The Tithe and Postal – in one unflinching tale of revenge and consequence. THE TITHE’s FBI Agent James Miller follows a sociopath into […]

Comic Book Review – Paper Girls #6

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Zeb Larson reviews Paper Girls #6… The smash-hit ongoing series returns with a bold new direction, as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future. Paper Girls is finally back, doing what it does best: raising questions that it doesn’t even begin to answer. We get thrown down […]

Comic Book Review – The Fix #3

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Emma Withington reviews The Fix #3… Roy moonlights as private security for a superstar actress. Superior Foes of Spider-Man-style hilarity from the team that brought you, um, Superior Foes of Spider-Man. We are nothing if not consistent! After Roy ensures his position as private security for teen Hollywood star Elaina – following the incarceration of good guy […]