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Time Before Time #1 – Time is Out of Joint in Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville and Joe Palmer’s New Series from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 26, 2021

From H.G. Wells’s classic novella to Avengers: Endgame––love them or loathe them––tales of time travel are a staple in science-fiction. The difficulty lies in creating a narrative that does something…

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A House Without Windows – Life Drawn Present Didier Kassaï’s Comic Art Alongside Marc Ellison’s Photography in This Unflinching Documentary of the ‘Forgotten Crisis’ in the Central African Republic

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • May 24, 2021

A House Without Windows is an important and necessary read to acknowledge the current state of affairs in the Central African Republic and to look through the windows provided for…

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Mannie Murphy Excavates Portland, Celebrities and White Nationalism in this Extraordinary Underground History

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 21, 2021

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is bookended (although they are heavily featured in the middle too) by two young men. One is River Phoenix, the beautiful young actor…

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol. 1 – BOOM! Studios’ Bold and Bracing Sci-Fi Spectacle Faces Issues in/with Space

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 14, 2021

That striking sentence-long title is literal. BOOM! Studios’ creator-owned We Only Find Them When They’re Dead features 24th century humanity’s encounters with city-sized intergalactic Gods, who are always dead on…

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Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir – Katja Klengel Explores “What Being a Woman Today Means to Her”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 12, 2021

“Becoming a woman isn’t exactly what I call a hobby.” Originally published in German by Reprodukt, in 2018 Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir is the recent release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning…

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Cyclopedia Exotica – Aminder Dhaliwal Uses Her Second Graphic Novel to Ask Us All a Few Uncomfortable Questions, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 10, 2021

Brampton, in Canada’s province of Ontario, is home to one of the largest groups of immigrants in the country. It often makes the list of most diverse cities in North…

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The Spider’s Syndicate of Crime – The 1960s King of Crooks Returns to Print in Stories by Ted Cowan, Jerry Siegel and Reg Bunn

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! My first encounter with perhaps the most enigmatic character in the history of UK British weekly comics was in the pages of the slick 1970s…

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Faceache: The Ken Reid Years Vol. 1 – Marvel at the First 100 Scrunges in this Collection of the Landmark British Humour Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Just a few short years ago the work of Ken Reid – one of the most popular and important cartoonists in  the history of British…

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The Return of Sexton Blake Special – Rebellion Bring the Adventures of the Classic Detective to a Whole New Generation of Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! When a character’s first appearance was in a publication titled The Halfpenny Marvel you can be fairly sure they have had a long and rich…

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The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Vol. I-II – Decades on, Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence’s Masterpiece Lives Up to Its Legendary Status

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! If you grew up as a comics fan in the 1970s in the UK you’ll no doubt have a version of this story to tell….

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Concrete Surfer – Skateboarding Rivalry and Family Drama in this Classic British Strip from the Pages of ‘Jinty’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! One of the staples of 1970s UK girls comics serials – including today’s review subject Concrete Surfer – was the story of the orphaned (or…

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The Best of Sugar Jones – Pat Mills and Rafael Busóm Clúa’s Biting 1970s Commentary on the Excesses of Celebrity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Running from the early 1970s to 1980, Pink was a magazine for the British teen girls market, with its mix of pop features, fashion and…

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Billy’s Boots Vol. 1 – The Legacy of ‘Dead-Shot’ Keen Explored in this Treasury of British Comics Collection of the Much Loved Football Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! First appearing in the pages of British football anthology Scorcher in 1970, Billy’s Boots was a serialised strip that would find a home in a…

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The Vigilant – A Loving Celebration of British Comics History, Updated and Revamped for a New Audience of Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! When Rebellion acquired their rich library of vintage IPC/Fleetway British comics characters a few years back it was very clear from the outset that celebrating…

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Jules Verne’s Lighthouse #1 – Futuristic Adaptation Misses the Mark as Image Comics’s Next Great Sci-Fi Epic

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 3, 2021

Image Comics, in collaboration with Anomaly Productions and Shadowline, launches us into the Jules Verne story The Lighthouse at the End of the World––with a science-fiction twist. Located at a…

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Ex.Mag Vol. 3: Crumbling Kingdom – Latest Peow Anthology Heralds the Misfortune, Misanthropy and Misery of the Dark Fantasy Genre (With Just the Right Amount of Wit and Whimsy to Sweeten the Pot)

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • April 29, 2021

This whopping 192-page collection by Peow is their latest in a series of genre-based anthologies. As noted in the preliminary pages of Ex.Mag Vol. 3, the anthologies were brought about…

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Dead Dog’s Bite #1-2 – Tyler Boss Gives the Reader a Knowing Wink in His Enjoyable Small-Town Mystery

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 27, 2021

Comics auteur Tyler Boss clearly believes that If you want something done, you should do it yourself. For Dead Dog’s Bite, a four-issue mystery with hints of humour from Dark…

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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History – David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s Comics Biography is a Remarkable and Essential Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2021

Over half a century since the formation of the Black Panther Party – the African American revolutionary party founded in Oakland in 1966 by students Bobbly Seale and Huey P….

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