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Catalyst Comix #1

More Nineties properties get the comic book version of a reality TV makeover, courtesy of Joe Casey, et al. Billed as Comics’ Greatest World when it first appeared back in…

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Swear Down

Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…

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Satellite Sam #1

Steamy, sexy, and downright seductive, Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s murder mystery set against the Golden Age of Television raises the benchmark for modern crime noir comics. When two masters…

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Stalag-X #1

Famed novelist Kevin J. Anderson (The Last Days of Krypton) creates a new miniseries, mixing sci-fi flair and P.O.W scares. Stalag-X is a new digital 6-issue miniseries by Australian publisher…

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Man of Steel

Selling Superman yet again to cinema goers was always going to be somewhat of a hard sell, especially since the misfire that was 2006’s Superman Returns. Screenwriter David S. Goyer…

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Nobrow 8: Hysteria

A perfect entry point to the Nobrow outlook and a reminder that it’s not hyperbolic to state that the publisher continues to produce some of the most beautiful examples of…

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Wolverine #5

Can mutant healing prevent an untimely drowning? Paul Cornell’s Wolverine #5 is the definition of a fun book.  Much like many other Marvel titles, Cornell structures his story with an…

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Fatale #15

Fatale #15 is a modern noir knuckle sandwich with less Lovecraftian horror and more pulp in its fiction. After a revealing several-issue sojourn into Josephine’s past, Brubaker and Phillips return…

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Uncanny #1

Andy Diggle and Aaron Campbell fuse hardboiled crime fiction with the unexplainable as they usher in a “Season of Hungry Ghosts” for fans starved for originality. Dynamite Entertainment’s efforts to…

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Lazarus #1

Greg Rucka and Michael Lark rapid fire us a story as unstoppable as its heroine. In a world divided by financial boundaries, everyone is kept in check by various families,…

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Jupiter’s Legacy #2

  Millar and Quitely’s legacy marred by a whole lot of nothing new under the sun. I can’t understate how much I’ve been craving a really good superhero book lately….

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Extinction Parade #1

With the summer release of World War Z’s movie adaptation looming over his head, Max Brooks adds another zombie story to his catalogue, yet this time with a nod to…

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Age of Ultron #10

The epic conclusion to Age of Ultron is anything but. Any reader that picked up last month’s release of Age of Ultron knows exactly how Brian Michael Bendis’ “epic” is…

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Witchblade #167

The world of faerie and magic invade Chicago in the flesh (lots of flesh) in Witchblade’s new story arc. Given his background as an artist, Tim Seeley is the perfect…

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Star Wars #6

Another exciting chapter in Brian Wood’s expanded Star Wars Universe. In all honesty, I have not been able to catch every issue of Brian Wood’s Star Wars adventures, but Wood’s…