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Ordinary Street

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2013

Taking the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1965 song ‘Desolation Row’ as inspiration, Ordinary Street is a haunting and sometimes surreal journey through a world of urban decay and moral ambiguity….

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 12, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 10, 2013

Broken Frontier presents its staff picks for the comics released this week. If you want to know which books should be on your pull list, look no further!   True…

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Science Tales, New Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2013

Darryl Cunningham’s use of the comic strip form in Science Tales as an investigative journalistic tool to bust some of the popular myths about contemporary scientific issues was one of the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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HeroesCon 2013: Art Gallery

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 8, 2013

Taking place this weekend, June 7-9, in Charlotte, NC is HeroesCon 2013. Many comic book professionals are very coy about their love for the show because it’s one of the…

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Kick-Ass 3 #1

  • by Jason Clyma
  • June 7, 2013

Mark Millar hits the ground running in his new volume of Kick-Ass as the young hero and his gang of awkward vigilantes attempt to break Hit-Girl out of her cell….

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East of West #3

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • June 7, 2013

Death leads the Horsemen on a bloody chase through a futuristic western dystopia poised on the brink of apocalypse. Jonathan Hickman’s crisp script deftly reveals the underlying causes of the…

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Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2013

Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2013

Mike Medaglia’s Wu Wei – a spiritual comics anthology with an emphasis on eastern philosophy – looks set to be one of the highlights of the U.K. small press publishing…

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X-Men #1

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 5, 2013

Right from Olivier Coipel’s striking cover it’s clear that these X-women mean business. After getting his feet wet for twelve issues on the previous X-Men volume, Brian Wood is back…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Ten Grand #2

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • June 5, 2013

In Ten Grand #2, grit, gore, and a dark dash of occult mystery seep from the pores of every hard-boiled panel. The daunting task of living up to the promise…

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The Wake #1

  • by John Trigonis
  • June 5, 2013

A new terrifying tale rises to the surface in Snyder & Murphy’s The Wake! The U.S. Department of Homeland Security invites cetologist Lee Archer to join a diverse cast of…

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Formidable! – Looking Back on BD & Comics Passion 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2013

Since its debut in the autumn of 2011, the BD & Comics Passion festival at London’s Institut français has rapidly become an essential – even obligatory – date for the diary in our…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Miss Endicott Versus the Steampunk Dwarfs

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 4, 2013

Historical London is under siege by deformed little people living beneath the streets of London in this adventure tale by Derrien & Fourquemin. Miss Endicott by Derrien & Fourquemin Prudence…

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Superman to Celebrate 75th Anniversary as Superman Blue?!

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 3, 2013

Rejoice! Superman – comic’s most iconic superhero – is celebrating his 75th anniversary this year. Bring out the cakes, the candles, and the spell checker just in case you’re responsible…

Eyecatcher · Features

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The Avengers: Earth’s Most Stylish Heroes

  • by Tony Ingram
  • June 3, 2013

There are plenty of heroes and groups of heroes in fiction, but few as innovative, as unusual or with just so much pure class as the Avengers, created way back…

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The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2013

Science fiction anthology book The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is a collection of one-shot tales overseen by the same editorial eye that brought us last year’s rather witty Doctor…

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Wrong Songs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2013

Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2013

Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…

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