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Section: Eyecatcher

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Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Giant Days #50 – Cricketing Fun and Games Abound as the Long-Running BOOM! Series Approaches Its Conclusion

  • by Holly Raidl
  • May 3, 2019

Starting with a joke about the annoyance of teaching parents technology, the main story in the latest issue of Giant Days is centred around a cricket match, in which Graham…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Lulu the Sensational …and the Family Secret – Cruelty, Courage, Creativity and Family Secrets that Need Some Unpacking in Helen Blejerman’s Faceless Silent Movie of a Graphic Novel

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 2, 2019

“May God watch over you, and protect you and keep you safe.”  Lulu’s mother “enjoyed watching Gene Kelly dance and sniffing round an old poetry book. She abandoned her acting…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Gogor #1 – Ken Garing’s Image Fantasy Series May Just Be the Serial Comics Sleeper Hit of the Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2019

Ken Garing’s new fantasy series Gogor, published by Image Comics, immediately grabs the reader’s attention with a tumultuously paced opening chase scene. It’s so immersive an experience that it leaves…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 1, 2019 – Beasts of Burden, oh no, 2000 AD Villains Takeover Special, Gogor and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 30, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Memoirs of a Book Thief – The Pretensions of 1950s Parisian Literary Society Are Skewered in Tota and Van Hove’s SelfMadeHero Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2019

Daniel Brodin is a man of many facets, few of them admirable. He considers himself a bibliophile but his love of prose is enabled by his practice of pilfering from…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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James Brown:  Black and Proud — Xavier Fauthoux Aims High but Often Falls Short

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 26, 2019

It takes a brave man to try and chronicle the life of The Godfather of Soul, not simply because James Brown’s story was so colourful, but because its many twists…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Get Me a Snickers – A Witty Collection of Oddball Comics Shorts from Sophie Burrows

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2019

The last time we looked at the work of Sophie Burrows here at Broken Frontier it was for comics of a very different style. You can catch our Tom Murphy’s…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Blindenhund – The Eerie Worlds of Alice Urbino Revisited in a Minicomic Tale of the Strangest of Friendships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2019

While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 24, 2019 – Little Girls, Ghost Tree, Ascender and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 23, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Tumult – John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Layered and Twisting SelfMadeHero Thriller Keeps the Reader Guessing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2019

When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Retroflect: Skull the Slayer – Looking Back on the Short-Lived 1970s Series that Brought Dinosaurs, Time Warps and the Bermuda Triangle to the Marvel Universe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2019

Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column in the site’s long history. Today it returns to BF as…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Cor!! & Buster Humour Special – Rebellion’s Entertaining Revival One-Shot is Accessible to New Readers and Crammed Full of Retro Fun for the Old-Timers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2019

Back in February Rebellion announced an exciting line-up of specials to run through 2019 featuring many of the IPC properties of yesteryear that the publisher has picked up over the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Euthanauts: Ground Control – Howard, Robles and Company Navigate the Mysteries of the Great Beyond in this IDW/Black Crown Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2019

Collecting the recent IDW series from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint – itself breathing much needed fresh life into serial comics delivery  on a monthly basis and continuing to defy…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 17, 2019 – Cor!! & Buster Humour Special, Memoirs of a Book Thief, Pilu of the Woods and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 16, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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oh no – Alex Norris’s Online Comics Phenomenon Comes to Print in a Bittersweet Collection of Comedy Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2019

There’s no affected exaggeration in saying that Alex Norris’s Webcomic Name is an online comics phenomenon. The three-panel strips, all ending in the same simple but plaintive punchline of “oh…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Space Wolf #1-3 – Meet the Weird Avenger of the Cosmos in this Basil Wolverton Homage from William Powers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2019

The last time we featured the work of William Powers at Broken Frontier it was for a zine that encapsulated a very different form of graphic storytelling. Never Been Reborn…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Power Pack of Ken Reid Volume 2 – Living on His Nervs with Queen of the Seas and Dare-a-Day Davy

  • by Tony Ingram
  • April 11, 2019

The first volume of the collected Ken Reid strips from Odhams’ 1960’s titles Wham!, Pow! and Smash! was largely dominated by monstrous mirth-maker Frankie Stein, with just the final dozen…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“I Like the Control You Have, and the Lack of Exposition and Word Vomit Required to Tell a Story” – Emerging Talent Anna Readman Talks About the Unique Possibilities of Comics as a Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2019

With a surge of interest in her work on social media and a growing buzz about her online output it’s sometimes easy to forget that artist Anna Readman – one…

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