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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for March 12, 2014: Stray Bullets, The Returning, Cannon, Beasts of Burden & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • March 10, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

Evil Empire #1 by Max Bemis and Ransom Getty (BOOM! Studios)

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Evil Empire #1 – BOOM! Studios’ New Series Makes a Stuttering Start on the Road to Dystopia

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 10, 2014

The advance publicity for Max Bemis and Ransom Getty’s 16-part political thriller promised much. Sadly, the first issue doesn’t really deliver. Max Bemis is probably better known to all you…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Tiny Pencil #3: The Beast Issue – Monsters, Machines and Unnatural Things in the Latest Issue of the Pencil Art Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2014

The third edition of Tiny Pencil – the artzine promoting graphite-based goodness through a mix of illustration and comic strips – is subtitled The Beast Issue, and comes with a…

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That Boy’s a Wonder! Richard Grayson’s Lessons on Childhood During the 1940s and 1950s

  • by Joe Krawec
  • March 7, 2014

As the heartbeat of the adult Richard Grayson fades away in Forever Evil #6, our resident researcher in the Golden Age and Silver Age of comics – Joe Krawec –…

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The Auteur #1 – Rick Spears and James Callahan Go Heavy on the Style, Light on the Substance

  • by Evan Henry
  • March 7, 2014

Disjointed but skillfully crafted, incoherent but not amateurish, The Auteur has plenty of style but lacks any recognizable substance. There are some comics that exude an aura of careful creation,…

Reviews

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Vandroid #1 – A Love Letter to Cult Sci-Fi Movies That Gets Lost in the Post

  • by Evan Henry
  • March 7, 2014

Vandroid takes genre tropes to an occasionally funny extreme in a well-crafted new mini-series, but loses its tonal compass somewhere along the way. A would-be blockbuster is lost long before…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Chronos Commandos Volume 1: Dawn Patrol – Nazis, Dinosaurs and a War for All Time from Titan Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2014

Chronos Commandos is never afraid to embrace cliché and proudly proclaim it as a narrative strength! Earth, the Cretaceous period, and a battle for the timelines is being fought by an…

Veil #1 by Greg Rucka & Toni Fejzula (Dark Horse Comics)

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Veil #1 – Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula Breathe New Life into a Familiar Trope for Dark Horse

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 6, 2014

Another week, another amnesia mystery. However, the high-level craft of Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula adds a bit of gloss to a routine set-up. It seems that every week brings…

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Pariah #1 – The Vitros Get Down to Earth in a Follow-Up Mini-Series from Dark Horse

  • by Evan Henry
  • March 6, 2014

The Pariah monthly picks up where its predecessor left off, taking genetically engineered teens on a quest for survival in low-earth orbit. And then they were in space, and… Wait, where’s the…

Reviews

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Pimo & Rex – Blank Slate Books and Rotopolpress Co-publish the Fantasy Fun of Thomas Wellmann’s Comic Duo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2014

Captivating, endearing and brilliantly absurd. Published collaboratively between Germany’s altcomics outfit Rotopolpress and Blank Slate Books in the UK, Pimo & Rex is the creation of German artist Thomas Wellmann….

Veil #1 (Dark Horse), by Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for March 5, 2014: Moon Knight, Evil Empire, Veil, Forever Evil & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • March 5, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

Reviews

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Tomb Raider #1 – Gail Simone Gets Lara Croft’s New Adventures off to a Promising Start

  • by Joe Krawec
  • March 5, 2014

As fan-favourite writer Gail Simone starts a new Tomb Raider series for Dark Horse, is it a comic by a woman, about a woman, for a woman? When I read…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Fata Morgana – An Eerie Journey through the Dreamscape with Jon Vermilyea and Koyama Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2014

Taking its name from a complex form of optical illusion, Jon Vermilyea’s Fata Morgana is a wordless journey through a young boy’s dreamscape, published by the never less than impressive…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dangerfun – Experiencing the “Sunny Side of Sinister” with the Comics of EdieOP

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 4, 2014

EdieOP is a creator who delights in fashioning work that is mischievously unsettling. Hers is a world of painful childhood mishaps and acts of gleeful spite, where recklessness is the…

Reviews

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Revenge #1 – The Geriatric Returns in Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill’s Hideously Fun Hollywood Horror

  • by Joe Krawec
  • March 4, 2014

Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill bring the schlock in their new series for Image – a vivid slice of filmic sex and violence set against the dark side of the…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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My Life as a Cat Named Sugar by Serge Baecken Smashes Storytelling Conventions

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 4, 2014

Belgian graphic talent Serge Baecken puts down a a stunning graphic novel that is as much experiment as a melancholic ode to his cat Sugar, published simultaneously in French and…

Reviews

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Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12 – Final Issue of a Humour Masterclass from Bongo Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2014

Those pictures that are worth a thousand words? That’s small change for a Sergio Aragonés illo. Sadly, Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12 marks the last issue of this humour masterclass to…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Score and Script – John Miers and Company Explore the Mechanics of the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2014

If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that,…

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