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Cor!! & Buster Humour Special – Rebellion’s Entertaining Revival One-Shot is Accessible to New Readers and Crammed Full of Retro Fun for the Old-Timers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2019

Back in February Rebellion announced an exciting line-up of specials to run through 2019 featuring many of the IPC properties of yesteryear that the publisher has picked up over the…

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Euthanauts: Ground Control – Howard, Robles and Company Navigate the Mysteries of the Great Beyond in this IDW/Black Crown Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2019

Collecting the recent IDW series from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint – itself breathing much needed fresh life into serial comics delivery  on a monthly basis and continuing to defy…

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oh no – Alex Norris’s Online Comics Phenomenon Comes to Print in a Bittersweet Collection of Comedy Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2019

There’s no affected exaggeration in saying that Alex Norris’s Webcomic Name is an online comics phenomenon. The three-panel strips, all ending in the same simple but plaintive punchline of “oh…

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The Power Pack of Ken Reid Volume 2 – Living on His Nervs with Queen of the Seas and Dare-a-Day Davy

  • by Tony Ingram
  • April 11, 2019

The first volume of the collected Ken Reid strips from Odhams’ 1960’s titles Wham!, Pow! and Smash! was largely dominated by monstrous mirth-maker Frankie Stein, with just the final dozen…

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Gamayun Tales Vol. 3: Tyna of the Lake – Another Entrancing and Magical Read for Younger and Older Audiences Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2019

Since the last time we reviewed the Gamayun Tales books from Nobrow Press, creator Alexander Utkin has gone on to be nominated in our Broken Frontier Awards in the category…

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Star Bright – Alice Clarke and Rob Zwetsloot’s All-Ages Coming-of-Age Story Combines Fantasy and Humanity

  • by Holly Raidl
  • March 29, 2019

Star Bright, the graphic novel by Alice Clarke and Rob Zwetsloot, tells a story of friendship versus isolation and captures the anxieties that surround being a shy child. Obviously stylistically…

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Reel Love – Owen Michael Johnson’s Love Letter to the Big Screen is a Truly Triumphant Breakout Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2019

When approaching today’s review of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love – the second graphic novel to be published by crowdfunding publisher Unbound after Grafity’s Wall – I found myself in…

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Invisible Kingdom #1 – Wilson and Ward’s New Sci-Fi Saga is Visually Mesmerising and Ambitious in Scale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2019

The first issue of Dark Horse’s new sci-fi saga Invisible Kingdom brings us into the separate but interlinked worlds of two very different women; existences set to converge into one…

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Grafity’s Wall – Mumbai Comes to Vibrant Life in Ram V, Anand Radhakrishnan and Company’s Immersive Coming of Age Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2019

There’s a lot in the next few hundred words that may seem hyperbolic. But indulge me for a few paragraphs because when I talk about Grafity’s Wall – the first…

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Blossoms in Autumn – Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Graphic Novel is a Raw, Honest, Poignant and Quite Beautiful Meditation on Love and Ageing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2019

What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…

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Escape from Syria – Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche and Mike Freiheit Explore the Refugee Crisis for a Younger Readership

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2019

Earlier this week we looked at the Syrian refugee crisis from a graphic reportage angle when we reviewed Olivier Kugler’s Escaping Wars and Waves – a book of illustrated interviews…

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Magical Beatdown Vol. 1 and 2 – Jenn Woodall’s No-Holds-Barred Silver Sprocket Series Tackles the Street Harassment Faced by Women on a Daily Basis

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • March 18, 2019

Jenn Woodall, award-winning creator of Girls, now unleashes Magical Beatdown; a no-holds-barred new series tackling the street harassment faced by women on a daily basis. Working exclusively in pink and blue, colours…

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Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Reportage Brings Powerful Personal Stories to the Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2019

I first came across the graphic reportage of Olivier Kugler a few years back in the pages of small press “graphic newspaper” Modern Times. Since then Kugler’s evocative portrayal of the…

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Calamity Kate #1 – Visaggio and Howell’s Monster-Hunting Tale is a Witty Synthesis of Suburban Drama and Otherworldly Menace

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 14, 2019

As methods of delivery in comics publishing continue to evolve to reflect wider shifts in how we consume narrative media so too do the challenges for serialised storytelling in immediately…

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Assassin Nation #1 – Pure Escapist Fun with a Darkly Comedic Undercurrent from Kyle Starks and Erica Henderson

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2019

The very first thing that strikes the reader about Assassin Nation #1 is the daunting roll call of hitman characters in its opening pages and the question of just how…

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The Power Pack of Ken Reid Volume 1 – The ‘Orrible Antics o’ Frankie and Jasper!

  • by Tony Ingram
  • March 12, 2019

Humour titles traditionally tended to be the entry point into the wonderful world of comics for generations of British fans. We may have moved on to 2000 AD or Battle,…

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Meet the Skrulls #1 – A Compelling Twist on Marvel’s Alien Invaders in an Intense, Bleak Drama with an Ironically Human Heart

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 11, 2019

For decades the Marvel Universe’s success as a storytelling environment lay in its grounding of the fantastic in the recognisable. The otherworldly explorers whose reality centred on the familiar concept…

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The Secret Voice Vol. 1 – Zack Soto Creates a Fantasy World that the Reader’s Curiosity Aches to Explore

  • by Robin Enrico
  • March 4, 2019

As far back as the ’70s, small press comics have always included works from the fantasy genre, with the art comics scene of the last 20 years frequently using futuristic…

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