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Author: Bruno Savill de Jong

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The Department of Truth Vol. 2: The City Upon a Hill – Impressive New Image Series Continues to Question What, and How, We Believe

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 2, 2021

The first volume of The Department of Truth established the hot new Image series’ mind-bending premise; that enough people believing in one form of reality would manifest it. Conspiracy theories…

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Reckless: Destroy All Monsters – A Solid, Melancholic Instalment of Brubaker and the Phillips’ Stellar Series

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 15, 2021

In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. But within the world of Reckless, quite a…

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The Good Asian Vol. 1 – This Compelling Noir Shines a Light on Asian-American History

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • October 19, 2021

Noir, as a genre, often trades in stereotypes even as it breaks them down. Femme Fatales, for instance, have more agency than earlier female roles, but were also always duplicitous…

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One Line – Ray Fawkes Presents an Ambitious Human Tapestry Unique to the Medium of Comics

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • July 13, 2021

Many things happen in Ray Fawkes’ ambitious, experimental montage comic One Line – roughly 7 generations are presented 18 times over – but the core is conveyed by the silent,…

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Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book – Pulp and Past Memories Make This Brubaker and the Phillips Book One of Their Best Yet

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 15, 2021

The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…

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Dog Biscuits – Alex Graham’s COVID Comic is an Engrossing and Ambitious Look at Modern Society

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 8, 2021

As Rosie (the Rabbit) puts it part-way through Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits, “there are certain aspects of being alive that are impossible to control.” This is true of her hormonal…

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Beatnik Buenos Aires – A Charcoal and Smoke-Filled Tribute to the ’60s Argentinian Art-Scene

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 28, 2021

Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Mannie Murphy Excavates Portland, Celebrities and White Nationalism in this Extraordinary Underground History

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 21, 2021

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is bookended (although they are heavily featured in the middle too) by two young men. One is River Phoenix, the beautiful young actor…

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol. 1 – BOOM! Studios’ Bold and Bracing Sci-Fi Spectacle Faces Issues in/with Space

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 14, 2021

That striking sentence-long title is literal. BOOM! Studios’ creator-owned We Only Find Them When They’re Dead features 24th century humanity’s encounters with city-sized intergalactic Gods, who are always dead on…

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1 – A Tremendous and Exciting New Series on Reincarnation and Mythology by Ram V, Filipe Andrade and Co

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 23, 2021

As the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. While we live our finite lives, we’re going to pay for it, one way or another. Laila Starr…

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Resistance: A Graphic Novel – An Informative and Eerily Relevant Chronicle of a (Fictional) Pandemic from Acclaimed Crime Writer Val McDermid and Artist Kathryn Briggs

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 19, 2021

Journalist Zoe Meadows doesn’t think much of the Northumberland “Solstice Festival,” considering it a fluffy puff-piece downgraded from her usual “investigative journalism,” but she needs the money. As does the…

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Monsters – A Must-Read Masterpiece of Trauma by Barry Windsor-Smith, a Book Which Was Decades in the Making

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 14, 2021

Much like the abused test-subject at its centre, Monsters is years in the making. Barry Windsor-Smith planned his macabre epic as a Hulk story, way back in 1984. Clashes with…

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Getting It Together – Sweet Slice-of-Life Relationship Stories for the Modern Era

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 26, 2021

The world is falling apart, and Jack is stuck in the middle. Well, at least the relationship between Jack’s best friend Sam and Jack’s sister (and roommate) Lauren is. The…

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The Department of Truth Vol. 1: The End of the World – A Hypnotic and Horrifying Masterpiece on Conspiracies and Beliefs from Tynion IV, Simmonds and Bidikar

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 24, 2021

Phillip K. Dick once said “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” But, ironically enough, the paranoid sci-fi author never fully believed this saying,…

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Post York – Dark Horse Delivers a Gorgeous (and Murky) Drenched Post-Apocalypse by James Romberger

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 17, 2021

Post York is a graphic novel of few words, but its concerns are neatly summarised by its epigraph: Michel Foucault saying how “man is an invention of recent date. And…

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Proctor Valley Road #1 – A Cute and Spooky Starting Point for the New Original Series from Morrison, Child and Franquiz

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 10, 2021

Proctor Valley Road is cuter than expected. Being Grant Morrison’s first original series since Klaus in 2015 (also with BOOM! Studios), from the legendary comic writer known for their high-concept…

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Zátopek – A Steady Biography of Czechoslovakia’s Long-Distance Runner from SelfMadeHero

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 1, 2021

Zátopek has a pacing problem. This deft graphic autobiography by Jan Novák and Jaromír 99 bounds through the life of the acclaimed Czechoslovakian long-distance runner; recounting his overcrowded childhood home…

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Scene of the Crime – Image Comics Revisit a Solid Early Milestone from the Careers of Brubaker, Lark and Phillips

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • February 25, 2021

It’s a familiar story. A woman walks into a PI’s office, lights a cigarette, and asks him to track down her missing sister. The PI, although sceptical, accepts the client’s…

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