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Stories from Potato Country
Tragic and comical painted stories from the southwest of the capital of Europe where time stood still and Man still sloughs in the mud he has risen from. Southwest of…
Mike Kunkel’s Squiggle Project
When you stop and think about it, every art project begins with a single line. Where it goes from there unlocks personal creativity, and that’s what makes it art. Cartoonist…
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Lucy the Octopus #2: I’ll Take What I Can Get – Richy K. Chandler’s Aquatic Webcomic in Second Collection
If ever a comic added entirely new layers to the term “guilty pleasure” then it’s Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus. The tale of a young schoolgirl cephalopod ostracised by…
Superior Spider-Man #25
More revelations and big events as the series looks towards its conclusion I was pleasantly surprised to see Superior Spider-Man high up on a number of critic’s best of 2013 lists….
EGOs #1
Sci-fi meets superheroes in the far future! Brilliantly written and efficiently illustrated, Stuart Moore’s EGOs makes a solid debut. The superhero team known as the Earth/Galactic Operatives – the eponymous…
Curse #1
With sharp scripting by Moreci and Daniel and blistering art from Rossmo and Lorimer, the opening issue of Curse, a four-parter from BOOM! Studios, takes a relevant and contemporary look…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for January 15, 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…
The Fox #3
The Fox struggles to capture a good balance in tone or pace. The content of comic books got so dark for awhile in the mid-2000s that a book, any book,…
The Heroines Zine – A Celebration of Role Models from Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Lizz Lunney and More
What delighted me about The Heroines Zine when I first started flicking through its pages was the way in which it embraces old school zine philosophy. It really is a…
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Strength in Numbers
It’s all about those magical numbers as Crossing Borders tackles time travel sci-fi in Numbercruncher and Japanese folk heroes in The 47 Ronin. Numbercruncher by Simon Spurrier and PJ Holden…
Miracleman: Catching up with an Old Acquaintance
Marvel claims that Miracleman is “the lost Watchmen” – a series that “changed comics forever”. But more than 30 years after the work’s debut (as Marvelman) in UK anthology title Warrior, is it…
WesterNoir Book Three – Weird Western Tales from Accent UK
Accent UK’s supernatural Western series with its surly monster-hunting cowboy Josiah Black is one that I’ve covered twice before (on the old Broken Frontier site Book One here and Book…
The Tomorrow People: Andrew White
Since joining ‘comics battle’ site EnterVOID as a teenager, Rhode Island-based writer/artist Andrew White has been creating and publishing comics prolifically. Still only 23, the work he’s producing at the…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for January 8, 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…
Aquaman #26
Monarch and hero, Aquaman has intriguing challenges ahead. With issue #26, Jeff Parker (Batman ’66) takes over the reins from Geoff Johns and has a daunting task ahead of him….
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Roll Down on the Floor
As the cold and snow creep in, it’s time to snuggle up with the kids on a sheepskin with these all ages releases starring Gaston Lagaffe and the kids from…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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