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Section: Eyecatcher

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Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Spandex Special #1 – Farewell to Martin Eden’s “All-Gay Superteam”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2014

Martin Eden’s “all-gay super team” Spandex hang up their capes and cowls – for the moment at least – in this grand finale to the critically acclaimed series. Way back…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Ms. Marvel #1: G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Muslim Marvel Heroine is Defined by Much More than Just Her Race or Religion

  • by Levi Hunt
  • February 7, 2014

Big things are coming for this title. G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona are making history with Ms. Marvel #1. Sure, Kamala Khan may not actually be the first Muslim…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Loki: Agent of Asgard #1 Delights in the Recent Tradition of Other Equally Delightful Lokis.

  • by Levi Hunt
  • February 6, 2014

Fun and whimsy define this book. Loki: Agent of Asgard has a lot to live up to. Kieron Gillen’s recent use of the character in the cult-favorite Journey into Mystery run is one…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Saltire – Diamondsteel Comics Introduces a New Super-Hero for Scotland!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2014

“Welcome to Scotland’s first superhero!” is the proud proclamation in the introduction to this first edition of Saltire, the new independently published project looking to provide Scottish readers with their…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Drunken Lips Sink Ships

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 4, 2014

Comedy from the lowlands, courtesy of Dutch publisher Syndikaat with the slice of life OGN Drunken Lips Sink Ships and the Treasure Island parody The Bologna Treasure. Born out of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Dead Boy Detectives #2

  • by Levi Hunt
  • February 3, 2014

The longevity of the Sandman franchise is remarkable. Two and a half decades after Neil Gaiman introduced the world of The Endless to comic book readers, this franchise is still inspiring spin-offs. The…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Saga #18

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 29, 2014

Saga has been one of the most commercially and critically successful comics of recent years – but are the cracks beginning to show in Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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What Challenge Awaits a Ghostly Heart?

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 28, 2014

We travel from the classical child drama of Michel from Zidrou & Roger to the crime ridden sewers of turn of the century Paris in The Fury of Fantomas by…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Batman: The Real Deal – The Dark Knight, Superhero Comics, and the “Illusion of Change”

  • by Joe Krawec
  • January 23, 2014

Guest writer Joe Krawec analyses the thorny issue of “the illusion of change” in superhero comics with special reference to the Batman mythos and the unofficial Batman: The Deal webcomic…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Black Feather Falls Book One: Ellen Lindner’s Period Murder Mystery Comes to Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2014

A lavish and opulent visual feast of a comic with a gripping plot at its heart, Ellen Lindner’s historical drama is a must-buy affair. London, the 1920s, and American Tina…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Stories from Potato Country

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 21, 2014

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…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Lucy the Octopus #2: I’ll Take What I Can Get – Richy K. Chandler’s Aquatic Webcomic in Second Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2014

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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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EGOs #1

  • by Evan Henry
  • January 17, 2014

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 by Michael Moreci , Tim Daniel, Colin Lorimer, Riley Rossmo (Boom Studios)

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Curse #1

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 16, 2014

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…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Strength in Numbers

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 14, 2014

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 #1, cover by Joe Quesada

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Miracleman: Catching up with an Old Acquaintance

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 13, 2014

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…

We Will Remain by Andrew White (Retrofit Comics)

Eyecatcher · Features

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The Tomorrow People: Andrew White

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 9, 2014

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…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Roll Down on the Floor

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 7, 2014

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…

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