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The Silver Six

When their lives and families are tragically stolen, six special orphans use their wits and teamwork to avenge their loss in this fantastic all-ages OGN from Scholastic. Kids are smarter…

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Skyward #1

Although the story may seem a tad familiar, Jeremy Dale’s Skyward takes flight with lush artwork and high production values. Action Lab Entertainment’s latest all-ages fantasy epic Skyward by talented…

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Batman ’66 #1

Sock! Pow! Zok?! Well, that’s what I got out of the original 1960s Batman TV series when I used to watch the reruns every Saturday morning when I was a…

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Emerald City of Oz #1

Eric Shanower and Skottie Young’s Emerald City of Oz is a gorgeous book to behold.  Across the first issue of this miniseries readers will be treated to a collection of…

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Eustace

With a deliciously morbid wit, debut graphic novelist S.J. Harris delivers a biting satire on the skewed mores of 1930s Britain in Eustace, his dark comedy of manners, published by…

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Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1

The Sinister Six make their comedic return to the Marvel Universe. Humanizing dastardly villains is a difficult task to achieve without taking away the necessary evil of the character.  How…

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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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