Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 2, 2013
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…
Tall Tales from the Badlands #3
Black Jack Press’ black-and-white anthology returns with more unorthodox tales of gunslinging, vengeance, and zombies in the Wild West. Writer Sean Fahey continues to lead the charge with Tall Tales…
Sex Criminals #1
Genuinely funny, heartfelt, smart, and entertaining. Also, SPOILER ALERT: there’s a glowing penis at the end of this book. As a freshman in college I was caught in the bathroom…
Story(cycle)
Kathryn Briggs’s Story(cycle) was completed as part of her Master of Fine Art degree this year. Ostensibly it’s an examination of the hero archetype as embodied in mythology in Joseph…
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs!
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! is an absolute gem of all-ages storytelling – vibrant, animated and utterly endearing. Dave, Ronnie, Natasha, Thomas and Reggie aren’t your usual gang of…
Crawl Hole
It’s time to take another trip into the tortured psyches of Messrs Collins and Laurie and become witness to twisted familial obligations, breakfast time in Hell, and the social faux…
Smoke/Ashes TPB
Smoke/Ashes boasts not one but two truly great full-length stories of despair and murder-for-hire in a dystopic future Britain. With this 250-page monster of a trade paperback, Dark Horse Comics…
British Comic Awards Nominees 2013 Announced!
This year’s shortlist for the British Comic Awards has just been released providing a telling reflection of the robust creative health and rich diversity of the art form on these…
A Handful of Groats
It may have a middle ages setting but all that’s missing from Rob Jackson’s A Handful of Groats to fully underline its Western genre influences is an Ennio Morricone soundtrack….
Special Language #1
Emma Mould and Andrew Godfrey’s Special Language #1 is an uncompromising account of the two and a half months Mould spent in a psychiatric facility in Bath in the summer…
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Rork Returns
One of Europe’s greatest artists and virtually unknown across the ocean, the German writer and artist Andreas, is back with a reprint of his most famous creation Rork. Rork Volume…
Batman #23.1
Awful. The best thing about Batman #23.1 is this review. Imagine yourself late into the Saturday night of a con weekend. You’re in the swanky hotel’s lobby surrounded by a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Richy K. Chandler
Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
Superior Spider-Man #18
Superior Spider-Man #18 was just okay. I’ve been loving Dan Slott’s take on the Superior Spider-Man. While I love Peter Parker with all my heart, I thought that this drastic…
Kiss Me, Satan #1
Kiss Me, Satan packs a creative punch, but starts off with more potential than substance. The werewolf mafia runs the organized crime community in New Orleans. Witches regularly find themselves…
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And then Emily Was Gone #1
Greg Hellinger, a former policeman who is now haunted by visions of monsters wherever he goes, is a troubled man. His world is about to get a lot more complicated,…
Infinity #3
A spectacularly breath-taking issue that only disappoints if you have you haven’t done your homework. We are now halfway through Jonathan Hickman’s event, Infinity, and I am still in awe over the…
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