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Section: Eyecatcher

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Blog · Eyecatcher

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The Complete 2000 AD Zenith Reprinted!

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 29, 2013

2000 AD is to publish a complete collection of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s ground-breaking superhero series Zenith for the first time. The limited edition hardback book will only be…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 28, 2013

    Contemporary absurdism ahoy in Wide Vercnocke’s ode to his sofa. My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa by Wide Vercnocke This is the titanic tale of a man…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Get in on Elephantmen with Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 27, 2013

Last week’s Image Comics press release announcing the 50th issue of Richard Starkings’s Elephantmen series instantly made me walk to my stacked graphic novel cupboard and pull out one of…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Warren Ellis and the Dead Pig Collector

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 24, 2013

One of comic-dom’s most revered authors, Warren Ellis, is also making a name for himself as a writer of novels. After the noir-tinted Crooked Little Vein and his exploration of…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Odalisques & Cylinders

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 21, 2013

We explore the titanic combination of Bastien Vivés and Ruppert and Mulot and look at Joris Van de Moortel’s use of comics to present his art books.   Cylinder 1-2…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 20, 2013

More like Dickens than Disney, Porcelain is a wonderfully structured, hard to resist fantasy tale. The opener of Porcelain shows a group of children facing a large gate, as the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Carmine Infantino and the Silver Age

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 17, 2013

A confession about superhero comics and sacrilegious comments on classic creators from the silver age. Broken Frontier is known for its focus on the fringe side of comic books published…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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X #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 10, 2013

Fast-paced, straight-ahead action and a new vulnerability herald the return of Dark Horse’s mysterious, ultra-violent vigilante. Formerly the product of Dark Horse’s ill-fated but critically acclaimed 1990s superhero initiative, Comics’…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Alys Jones and Beyond the Wire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2013

“Writer/artist Alys Jones’s graphic novelette is a multi-layered foray into the horror of the trenches of the First World War that constantly plays and tinkers with the readership’s perception of…

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