Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 26, 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…
Wonder Woman #28 – The Best New 52 Reboot in the Entire DC Line-up
Witty, willful, wily, and wise, Wonder Woman is consistently the best New 52 reboot in the entire DC line-up—and you should be reading it. Too often writer/artist team-ups result in…
Mengelmoes #1 – Willem Samuel’s South African Slice-of-Lifer with a Fantasy Twist
The juxtaposition of the commonplace and the everyday with the fantastic and the bizarre makes Mengelmoes an unpredictably intriguing read throughout. For those wondering, Mengelmoes means something akin to “mish-mash”…
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Pieter Rosseel is Just Stumbling through Life
Freshly graduated architect Pieter Rosseel turns comic book artist and produces a graphic explosive debut graphic novel published by Syndikaat called Stumbling. How’s that for irony? Deriving your identity from…
Undertow #1 – Visually Arresting Art Can’t Solve Heavy Story-setting
Image Comics describes Undertow as a ‘pulp monster’ series, promising readers a mythic creature-feature. Is its debut issue the oceanic epic we’re expecting? Undertow #1 is set in a prehistoric…
Daredevil #36 – Mark Waid and Chris Samnee Make the Best Superhero Comics Around
The best ongoing superhero series gets an ending, and a new beginning It’s hard to argue with Saga, but I’ll try. In December we at Broken Frontier awarded Saga as our ongoing series…
Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories – Great Beast Showcases John Cei Douglas
Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories… sees John Cei Douglas’s lingering and poignant comics collected into one mandatory package from British publisher Great Beast. It includes…
QU33R – A Dazzling Anthology from the Vibrant Alt-Queer Comics Scene
QU33R, edited by Rob Kirby and published by Northwest Press, is a diverse but consistently excellent collection that belongs on the shelf of any serious fan of the comics medium….
Webcomics Round-Up, February 2014 – EdieOP, Rebecca Bagley, Elizabeth Querstret and Team Girl Comic
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Today, in the spirit of pushing some of those artists whose work really should have a greater fanbase, I am going to…
Richy K. Chandler Announces WASP 2014 – Webcomic Artist Swap Project Returns!
Beginning on Monday 24th February the second edition of WASP – the Webcomic Artist Swap Project overseen by Lucy the Octopus creator Richy K. Chandler – will see another batch…
White Suits #1 – A Blistering Shot of Neo-Noir from Frank J. Barbiere and Toby Cypress
What’s black and white and red all over? How about White Suits #1 from Dark Horse, by Frank Barbiere and Toby Cypress – the perfect cure for those 100 Bullets…
The Golem – Chris Kent’s Tale of Victorian Vengeance with a Supernatural Twist
There are surely few periods of history more exploited in genre fiction than the late Victorian setting with its accompanying mental imagery of coaches on cobbled streets, pea-soupers and murder…
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Hitsville UK #2 – No Difficult Second Album Syndrome for John Riordan and Dan Cox
When it comes to bringing British self-published voices to a greater stage Great Beast have made some inspired choices in the last few months. John Cei Douglas, Dan Berry and…
The Royals: Masters of War #1 – Rob Williams and Simon Coleby Deliver an Explosive Mix of War Comics, Superheroics and Alternative History
Rob Williams and Simon Coleby are the latest 2000 AD old boys to hit Vertigo, with The Royals: Masters of War – a witty and imaginative tale of super-powered toffs in World War II….
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 19, 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…
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Lost in the Snow with Dieter VDO
Bries publishing brings us the stunning debut graphic novel slash picture book by Dieter VDO entitled Snow where a warped lens shines on your favorite childhood remembrances transmogrifying cuteness into…
Comic Strip Perspectives on Europe – Reframe Exhibition Reaches Istanbul, February 17th to 28th
Last November’s Comica Festival afforded me the opportunity to meet Turkish comics practitioners Murat Mıhçıoğlu and Cem Özüduru (below right) whose work was on display with creators from Turkey, the…
Genesis – Paradise Lost from Nathan Edmondson, Alison Sampson and Image Comics
Genesis is a mesmerising yet salutary offering, and represents an extraordinary collaboration between Nathan Edmondson and Alison Sampson. It’s a deeply engrained facet of human nature: that desire, that urge,…
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