Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 5, 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…
RhiZome Volume 1 – Jackson and Baddeley-Read Launch New Brit Sci-Fi Small Press Anthology Comic
Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read’s sci-fi anthology RhiZome is a conscious attempt to create a comic that hearkens back to an edgier time of experimental small press publishing, as noted…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
You Smell of Crime and I’m the Deodorant
Al Ewing & Henry Flint’s hilarious and rather outrageous undead crime-fighter is back. THIS IS COMICS: weaponized zombies, mega-brained pop music moguls, male stripper minds in butt transplants, gung-ho military…
Uncanny Avengers #14
The themes of Remender’s multiple “Uncanny” titles come together in a devastating issue This issue of Uncanny Avengers has been well hyped this week as a game changer, promising plenty of death…
Boxers and Saints
Through the lives of two young people in 19th century China, Gene Luen Yang provides a powerful look at the dangers of fanaticism and the difficulties of faith. Without a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Hatchlings – Manga Jiman Winners Come Together in the First Cross#atch Anthology
Cross#atch are a small collective of five manga creators from a variety of cultures who all share the experience of success in the UK Manga Jiman short story competition. Their…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 27, 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…
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Tiwary and Robinson exquisitely meld history and fiction in this fully painted graphic biography of the legendary Beatles manager. By the time Brian Epstein met the Beatles in 1961, they…
Join the Army – Darren Cullen’s Anti-Armed Forces Recruitment Comic
Reading the background information which arrived with my copy of London artist Darren Cullen’s Join the Army I wasn’t surprised to note the polarised reactions this most uncompromising of anti-war…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
John Tiffany on the Run
A lackluster bounty-hunter-on-the-run plot is turned into a spectacular action movie by the stunning visuals of the brand new & re-invented nineties artist Dan Panosian. Starting out as a Rob…
Red Plains: Accidents Will Happen
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
Lance Parkin’s biography provides a revealing examination of the life and work of one of comics’ most influential and divisive figures. Like a lot of comics readers of a certain…
Room for Love
Room for Love is no conventional, sweet and cheerful, happy-ending love story. It’s a painful, sometimes bitter, account of the unlikely collision of two people’s lives told with sincere authenticity…
And then Emily Was Gone #2
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Rocket Girl #2
Impulsive, witty, and captivating, Rocket Girl #2 is a jetpack-powered thrill ride through time. Dayoung Johansson is a freckle-faced teenage cop on a mission to prevent our future (her present)…
Inside Look: Scum of the Earth #1 – Southern Fried Sci-Fi by Mark Bertolini and Rob Croonenborghs
Mark Bertolini and Rob Croonenborghs have created a brand new genre in comics with the release of Scum of the Earth – Southern Fried Sci-Fi! Bring your eyeballs and your…
Youthful Attack
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
Off the Grid: A Report on the Arvon Text + Image Course
What do you get when you bring together sixteen hopeful comic artists and two ‘professionals’ and force them to live together in a thousand year old cottage in Devon with…
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