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Welcome to Your Awesome Robot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2013

Viviane Schwarz’s Welcome to Your Awesome Robot was the first title to be published under Nobrow Press’s Flying Eye Books imprint for children. Nobrow, of course, already have a proven…

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Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2013

With an Eisner Award nomination for the previous volume, Philippe Coudray’s Benjamin Bear books are a series with an established pedigree. Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! contains twenty-seven playfully inventive…

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Chin Music #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 10, 2013

Stunning artwork and a script that keeps you guessing anchor Image’s latest high-profile creative coup, in Niles and Harris’ occult investigation of Al Capone’s Chicago. There are very few comic…

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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’…

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Dockwood

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2013

McNaught has a canny knack for finding something compelling in the humdrum and the monotonous; of imbuing each tiny moment with a flowing, rhythmical splendour of its own. Jon McNaught…

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Mind MGMT #10

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 3, 2013

The sordid history of The Futurist is revealed in this noir-esque episode of Mind MGMT. The Eraser is hot on the trail of Henry Lyme and his band of once…

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Huck Finn’s Adventures in Underland

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 1, 2013

Nikola Jajic drops us down the rabbit hole into a bizarre realm of dark whimsy in his latest offering from Alterna. As the title suggests, Nikola Jajic’s latest limited series…

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Princeless Vol. 2 #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 1, 2013

Whitley’s all-ages, Eisner-nominated series returns for more fantastic hijinks, as Adrienne and Sparky continue their quest to save her royal sisters. If you haven’t already heard, Princeless is a pretty…

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Ten Grand #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 30, 2013

Joe’s Comics makes a welcome return with the grim tale of a faustian bargain turned on its ear. There are few people in the world who understand the art and…

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Trading Up: Modesty Blaise: The Girl in the Iron Mask

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2013

A true testament to Peter O’Donnell’s storytelling. For those unaware of classic British newspaper strip Modesty Blaise it was published for nearly forty remarkable years from the early 1960s in…

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Jupiter’s Legacy #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 26, 2013

  Hyped for months, the creator-owned debut of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s deconstructionist superhero drama fails to break new ground. I’ll always love superheroes. I don’t know that any…

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The Private Eye #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 25, 2013

Even as they challenge our perceptions of identity and information, Vaughan and Martin present a bold new alternative to traditional comics. First things first: regardless of format, The Private Eye…

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Witch Doctor: Mal Practice #6

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 24, 2013

As another volume of Witch Doctor comes to a ghoulish close, Seifert and Ketner plant the seeds of future arcs in Morrow’s stalwart associates. By now, we all know Dr….

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The Final Plague #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 22, 2013

Just when you thought the zombie apocalypse had just about run its course, Action Lab’s Danger Zone imprint posits a disturbing new twist on the undead. Over the past couple…

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Brooklyn Dreams – DeMatteis and Barr’s Darkly-Humoured Meditation on Truth and the Efficacy of Memory is an Exultant Masterpiece of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2012

Brooklyn Dreams is one of those delightful occasions in your comics-reading experience when writer and artist seem so synchronised – so completely, overwhelmingly in tune with each other – that…

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