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Section: Eyecatcher

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Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Omega – Titan’s Multi-Doctor Crossover Proves to Be a Time-Twisting Self-Referential Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 15, 2017

Titan’s latest Doctor Who crossover comes to a dramatic end in this concluding special as the Doctors’ individual timestreams converge and the mystery of the universal threat of the Void,…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 15, 2017 – It’s Cold in the River at Night, The Wicked + The Divine, Misty, Bolivar, Evolution and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 14, 2017

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 events or digital…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Tenements, Towers & Trash – Talking Gentrification, Urban Exploration and Fart Jokes with Julia Wertz

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 14, 2017

A city is constantly evolving. Walk through any in the UK and you’re basically walking through its history, the new is built on top of the old, with Sixties brutalist…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Preview: The Smell of Starving Boys – Loo Hui Phang and Frederik Peeters’ Tale of Post-Civil War Texas Rounds Out SelfMadeHero’s 10th Anniversary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2017

What a year it’s been for SelfMadeHero! During their tenth anniversary they’ve put out another eclectic and enthralling list of original graphic novels, translated material, graphic biographies, literary adaptations, mindfulness…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Paradiso #1 – Ram V and Devmalya Pramanik Take Us on a Tour of a Dystopian Future with a Difference Courtesy of Image Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2017

The indie comics rise of writer Ram V over the last couple of years has been a remarkable one to behold. From his early days in Indian comics to his…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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‘Money Worries #1’ and ‘Spare Me’ – Adventures in Capitalism and an Escape in Nature with Two Minicomics from O Panda Gordo

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 9, 2017

Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart – Clan Rivalries Explode in Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Tense Vampire Thriller

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • November 8, 2017

Collecting issues #1-6 of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s southern fried vampire yarn, new trade paperback Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart will jump off comic store shelves for…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 8, 2017 – Best Wishes, As the Crow Flies, Redlands, 4 Kids Walk into a Bank and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 7, 2017

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 events or digital…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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A View from the Frontier – The Evolution and Importance of Comic Shops as Community Hubs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2017

Traditionally this point in the year is when the great and the good of British comics gears up for the final big blow-out and hits Leeds for the grand finale…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 3, 2017

Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Memory, Connectivity and Living with Brain Injury – Wallis Eates Talks about the Responsibilities of Her New Graphic Narrative ‘Like an Orange’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 2, 2017

There are many comics crowdfunding projects out there worthy of attention for reasons of craft, aesthetics or narrative. And then there are those that need to happen for reasons beyond the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 1, 2017 – Grandville: Force Majeure, The Gravediggers Union, Out of Nothing, Expansion and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 1, 2017

It’s 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 events or digital storefront,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Scream! & Misty Halloween Special – Rebellion Revisit the Spookier Side of Classic British Weekly Comics in a Chilling New Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Way back in 1984 a new British weekly comic hit the newsagent shelves that, despite lasting just fifteen issues, would go on to attain major cult status. While…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Dracula File – Rebellion Bring the 1980s ‘Scream!’ Weekly Classic Back to Print in the Treasury of British Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! When coming up with concepts for strips in the fondly remembered 1980s British comic Scream! a Dracula-led serial may not have been the most original idea but it was one that…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Halloween Tales – Humanoids Present Three Haunting Stories of Childhood by Olivier Boiscommun and D-P Filippi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Collecting three haunting shorts that focus on childhood perceptions of the world Halloween Tales is a showcase compilation for the art of Olivier Boiscommun who illustrates all the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Crawl Space – Exploring Jesse Jacobs’ Polychromatic, Psychedelic World in a Standout Offering from Koyama Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2017

With its kaleidoscopic manipulation of colour and deft exploitation/juxtaposition of the free form and the symmetrical, Jesse Jacobs’ Crawl Space is a remarkable celebration of the unique storytelling properties of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Spy Seal #3 – Rich Tommaso’s All-Ages Espionage Thriller Continues with a Little Patrick McGoohan, a Lot of Hergé

  • by Tom Baker
  • October 26, 2017

The market for translated bande dessinée is no longer the sole preserve of Tintin and Asterix. We’re now lucky enough to have English-language editions of Corto Maltese, the works of…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for October 25, 2017 – Black Crown Quarterly, Redneck, Baking with Kafka and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 24, 2017

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 events or digital…

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