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Amazing Art: Dave Wachter Recaps HeroesCon 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 12, 2013

Dave Wachter, artist on Breath of Bones: Tales of the Golem, released today from Dark Horse and reviewed by us here, has posted an overview of the best sketches he…

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Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #1

  • by Jason Clyma
  • June 12, 2013

In Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem, the traditional World War II epic is infused with mythology for a wholly new experience. Instead of immediately blazing into their…

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Naming Monsters

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2013

Hannah Eaton’s idiosyncratic psychodrama is an absorbing mix of the quirky, the sinister, and the very human, and yet another perceptive publishing choice for the Myriad back catalogue. It’s the…

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Process #3: Discussing the Mechanics of the Comics Page

  • by Steven Walsh
  • June 12, 2013

Process is a comics workshop and discussion group that meets up on the first Wednesday of every month at London’s Gosh! Comics from 7-9 pm. The idea is to have…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Everything Takes Forever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2013

Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, published by Koyama Press, is a collection of the Manhattan-situated artist’s splendidly peculiar and dreamlike comic strips. Characters with tacos for heads compete with the…

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Better the Devil You Know

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 11, 2013

Frodo De Decker is back with his everyman hero Otto facing giants, vampires, dwarfs, knights, devils, demons and a broken heart. Otto Volume 2 : Better The Devil You Know…

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Anticipating Killjoys #1: Watch My Chemical Romance’s Na Na Na

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 10, 2013

He’s back! His debut with Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and the Umbrella Academy: Dallas follow-up proved that he’s one of the most luminary and positively twisted young minds to write…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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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