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Mouse Guard: The Black Axe HC

  • by Evan Henry
  • July 15, 2013

A worthy addition to an already accomplished and critically lauded franchise. Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, from Archaia Studios Press, collects the six-part limited series of the same name written…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 17, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 15, 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…

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Sky in Stereo #2

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2013

The North of England in the Nineties and teenage student Iris’s life is fast becoming defined by her experimentation with drugs in Mardou’s slice-of-lifer from Yam Books… Last year I…

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Batman #22

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • July 15, 2013

An instant bat-classic without the bat, Zero Year brilliantly exploits the messy, mistake-riddled path to adulthood. And in Batman #22, young Bruce Wayne’s screw-ups are a runaway freight train about…

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Harlan Ellison’s 7 Against Chaos

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • July 15, 2013

Over 20 years in the making, sci-fi legend Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick’s cosmic Magnificent Seven bends reality even as it seeks to expand your consciousness. There are few storytellers…

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Ballistic #1

  • by Jason Clyma
  • July 12, 2013

Ballistic is an explosive adventure from page one to the book’s end. Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darick Robertson’s Ballistic is my kind of book.  Starting from the first panel of…

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Henchmen

  • by Evan Henry
  • July 12, 2013

Henchmen, from writer Jamison Raymond and artist Ryan Howe, has plenty of pop and polish, but fizzles when it comes to tone. In the vein of books like J. Michael…

Eyecatcher · Features

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The Wild West of Webcomics: Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark on ‘The Guns of Shadow Valley’ and its Kickstarter Campaign

  • by Levi Hunt
  • July 12, 2013

In 2009, Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark launched their webcomic, The Guns of Shadow Valley, a mystical western. In subsequent years, the series garnered both an Eisner and Harvey…

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Deep in the Woods

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2013

Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…

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Superman Unchained #2

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • July 12, 2013

  Unchained is the Superman book you’ve been waiting for. Pulse-pounding action, a Batman-worthy mystery, and impossibly beautiful art make this the must-read book of the summer. Storytelling in the…

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Quantum and Woody #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • July 11, 2013

  Rousing, rebellious, and rebooted for the digital age, cult favorites Quantum and Woody expand the Valiant Universe in a fun and unexpected new direction. The self-proclaimed “World’s Worst Superhero…

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Biff! Bam! Pow! A Bat Blast from the Bat Past: 1966 in Batman Comics

  • by Levi Hunt
  • July 11, 2013

Jump in the Bat-Time Machine kids. You’ve read the Batman ’66 digital comic by Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case already and you’ve seen the show it’s inspired by, but what…

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The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2

  • by Ricky Miller
  • July 11, 2013

A disappointing and jumbled foray into dystopian sci-fi from the writer of Umbrella Academy, but Becky Cloonan shines once again. In a dystopian future, a group of rebel heroes called…

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The Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights #1

  • by Evan Henry
  • July 11, 2013

From Dynamite Entertainment comes The Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights, a team-up comic scripted by veteran film producer Michael Uslan (notably associated with such comic book properties as Swamp Thing and…

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Pancakes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2013

A household chat over the breakfast table may not seem the most dynamic of starting points but all is not as it seems in Kat Leyh’s Pancakes from Yeti Press,…

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X-O Manowar #15

  • by Eric Lindberg
  • July 11, 2013

Aric of Dacia returns to Earth after his captivity by an alien race. But the world is not as he left it. In the fifth century, Visigoth warrior Aric of…

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Sheltered #1

  • by Jason Clyma
  • July 11, 2013

The town of Safe Haven is anything but. Writer Ed Brisson and artist Johnnie Christmas’ brand new series Sheltered stood out as one of Broken Frontier’s Staff Picks of the…

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Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #2

  • by Ricky Miller
  • July 10, 2013

This beautifully illustrated coming of age story set in WWII is a surprisingly subtle little treat… also featuring Nazis and a golem!!! The solicits for Breath of Bones and the…

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