Batman and Nightwing #23
Batman and Nightwing #23 is the single best issue of Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s run on the Batman and Robin series. Issue #23 is the emotional capstone of not…
Fish Head Steve!
Ferocious slapstick, scatological silliness and surreal visual gags with a mischievous appeal for its young target audience. Welcome to Spumville, a small town where something rather curious has just occurred….
The Grinning Mask #1-3
Ryan Taylor’s The Grinning Mask is an intriguing fusion of (initially) the sensibilities of a past age of UK weekly comics with the more creepy overtones of the best of…
I Am Fire
Rachael Smith’s I Am Fire is a witty little sitcom of a comic combining disaffected, angsty teenagers, health and safety politics, and bitter rivalries in that ever cut-throat and competitive…
Fagin the Jew
Comics legend Will Eisner’s insightful treatment of Dickensian tropes sheds light on dark issues of prejudice and bigotry. Dark Horse Comics presents a new printing of Will Eisner’s graphic novel…
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Small Press Spotlight on… Rebecca Bagley
Rebecca Bagley is a name that will be familiar to long-term readers of ‘Small Pressganged’. She’s the creator behind the contemporary fable Tick, much championed in this column here and…
Man of Steel: The Superman Book that Never Got a Fair Chance
With Jon Bogdanove’s Strongman Kickstarter campaign unlikely to reach its too lofty funding goal, BF looks back at the artist’s defining run on Superman: Man of Steel, the ‘fourth’ Superman…
Numbercruncher #2
Bastard Zane unleashes the probability-altering fury of the Accident Gun in this literally “bloody” brilliant second issue of Titan Comics’ summer hit. Si Spurrier and artistic collaborators P.J. Holden and…
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1
Hester and Di Vito usher a new team of action heroes into the modern world in this love letter to Len Brown and Wally Wood’s Silver Age classic. One of…
Big in Japan
Big in Japan is Moogs Kewell’s diary comics account of her trip to Japan in April 2011 to attend her friends Masami and Taka’s wedding. It’s a whirlwind tour round…
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Kill Your Mothers
Zidrou, Borecki and Ers deliver a truly chilling series in Kill Your Mothers when they turn every teenybopper’s dream into a nightmare: what happens when the things you wish upon…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for August 21, 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…
Harbinger #15
It’s a new jumping on point for Harbinger, but should you take the plunge? After the events of the Harbinger Wars, Peter and his Renegades head to California in desperate…
Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde #0
Mystery and science fiction will collide in small-town America soon, but first you have to get through the introductions of the alien doctor, the government agency chasing him, and the…
Wolverine #8
What happens when the Wolverine can be hurt? Paul Cornell’s Wolverine #8 continues the series’ interesting mix of “comic-booky” science fiction with the great character development the scribe is known…
Smoo Comics #7
Simon Moreton’s minimalist storytelling style in his Smoo Comics series has marked him out as a small press creator with a unique approach to the comics page. He’s been covered…
The Comic Book Tony Soprano: Doc Ock’s Antihero Tale in ‘Superior Spider-Man’
Breaking Bad‘s final season premiered last Sunday night. With nothing but that show on the brain, it was hard not to think about Walter White when examining Doc Ock’s new…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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