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When you live in a world beyond parody then satire is hard. James Albon’s A Shining Beacon, though, is less about exploring a dystopian future as much as extrapolating its…
Writer Matt Hawkins (COO of Top Cow, Think Tank) has transformed a smoldering curiosity about the possibilities of weaponizing cancer into a chillingly plausible comic where that science-based catastrophe becomes…
Hellboy has always excelled in its ability to be an epic that embodies narrative elasticity. With this fourth instalment in its Winter Specials, the Hellboy series displays how it can…
À La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) ranks up there, with War and Peace and Don Quixote, a classic that everyone appears to have an opinion…
The very title Best of 2000 AD was by (subjective) definition always going to be a divisive one. Rebellion’s new 12-issue series debuts this April, retaining the anthology format of…
After years of a puzzling lack of Ken Reid reprint volumes we’ve been spoilt for collections over the last few years with the Treasury of British Comics giving us both…
While Gangster yarns may be dying out in the world of cinema (see The Irishman), Dark Horse’s Machine Gun Wizards continues the age-old comics tradition of mashing up the crime…
From the outset, Mikel interweaves two stories together: a man’s longing to become a writer, and the story he eventually ends up telling, of a man putting his family and…
From R.L. Stine, the author behind the phenomenon that is children’s horror book series Goosebumps, comes this series of eerily creepy tales for younger readers that promises to take them…
“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…
To present an account of British working class history from the 14th century to the present day in around 125 pages and keep it both succinct and accessible, without drifting…
A few years back Paco Roca’s graphic novel Wrinkles was understandably acclaimed for its bittersweet portrayal of later life. It would go on to become an animated film, with voice…
Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…
One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…
Not every comic we feature here at Broken Frontier has to experimental, alternative or boundary-pushing. After all, there are times when all of us will just want to pick up…
Olympia’s extra-sized opener marks the first chapter of a series that was conceived by comics writer Curt Pires and his father Tony during the latter’s cancer treatment. It’s a book…
The immediate thing the reader takes away from the first issue of Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and company’s Folklords is what a sublimely perfect issue it is in terms of…
From its opening pages, moodily lit by Ryan Cody’s muted and yet quietly oppressive colours, there’s an immediate sense of the foreboding about Family Tree, the new ongoing Image series…
