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Void Trip #1 – The Opening Chapter of O’Sullivan and Klaus’s Cosmic Slacker Comedy-Travelogue is an Eminently Likeable Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2017

Putting a sci-fi spin on the road movie concept, Ryan O’Sullivan and Plaid Klaus’s Void Trip comes to us via Image Comics and is the product of a team with…

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Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Omega – Titan’s Multi-Doctor Crossover Proves to Be a Time-Twisting Self-Referential Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 15, 2017

Titan’s latest Doctor Who crossover comes to a dramatic end in this concluding special as the Doctors’ individual timestreams converge and the mystery of the universal threat of the Void,…

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Paradiso #1 – Ram V and Devmalya Pramanik Take Us on a Tour of a Dystopian Future with a Difference Courtesy of Image Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2017

The indie comics rise of writer Ram V over the last couple of years has been a remarkable one to behold. From his early days in Indian comics to his…

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‘Money Worries #1’ and ‘Spare Me’ – Adventures in Capitalism and an Escape in Nature with Two Minicomics from O Panda Gordo

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 9, 2017

Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…

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Dalí – Baudoin Perfectly Captures the Essence of the Great Surrealist Painter in SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2017

Published as part of SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Dalí recounts the life and work of the Spanish surrealist painter as brought to the comics page by Edmond Baudoin, the legendary…

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Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart – Clan Rivalries Explode in Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Tense Vampire Thriller

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • November 8, 2017

Collecting issues #1-6 of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s southern fried vampire yarn, new trade paperback Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart will jump off comic store shelves for…

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A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 3, 2017

Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…

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Deadman #1 – Vintage Plot Threads Revisited in This Neal Adams Revival from DC Comics

  • by Tony Ingram
  • November 2, 2017

I’ve always rather liked Deadman as a character; his original series is an undisputed classic, and nobody who has written him since has really failed to make him interesting.  And…

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Mr. Higgins Comes Home – Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Brings Mike Mignola’s Hammer Horror Pastiche to the Creepiest Undead Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Presented in a handsomely packaged, slim hardcover format, Mr. Higgins Comes Home is both a loving homage to a classic era of Hammer Horror films and a knowing pastiche of their…

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Scream! & Misty Halloween Special – Rebellion Revisit the Spookier Side of Classic British Weekly Comics in a Chilling New Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Way back in 1984 a new British weekly comic hit the newsagent shelves that, despite lasting just fifteen issues, would go on to attain major cult status. While…

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The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #23 – A Solid if Undemanding Collection of Halloween Shorts from a Once Experimental Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Just like its parent TV show counterpart in its heyday Bongo Comics’ annual The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror comic has often provided something of a venue over the…

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The Dracula File – Rebellion Bring the 1980s ‘Scream!’ Weekly Classic Back to Print in the Treasury of British Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! When coming up with concepts for strips in the fondly remembered 1980s British comic Scream! a Dracula-led serial may not have been the most original idea but it was one that…

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Halloween Tales – Humanoids Present Three Haunting Stories of Childhood by Olivier Boiscommun and D-P Filippi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Collecting three haunting shorts that focus on childhood perceptions of the world Halloween Tales is a showcase compilation for the art of Olivier Boiscommun who illustrates all the…

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The Unquotable Trump – Real Quotes from a Real Life Supervillain

  • by Joseph Marczynski
  • October 27, 2017

Petulant man-baby at his best and harbinger of nuclear apocalypse at his worst, sentient wotsit Donald Trump is certainly a ripe subject for parody. The absurdity of his pre and…

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Spy Seal #3 – Rich Tommaso’s All-Ages Espionage Thriller Continues with a Little Patrick McGoohan, a Lot of Hergé

  • by Tom Baker
  • October 26, 2017

The market for translated bande dessinée is no longer the sole preserve of Tintin and Asterix. We’re now lucky enough to have English-language editions of Corto Maltese, the works of…

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Kid Lobotomy #1 – IDW’s New Black Crown Line is off to a Splendidly Weird Start with Milligan and Fowler’s Off-Centre Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2017

There’s always been something indefinably “other” about much of Peter Milligan’s comics output. Sometimes his work can be disquieting in a vaguely unsettling way – an unease that subtly wheedles…

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The Realm #1-2 – Fantasy and Urban Realism Combine in Peck and Haun’s Gritty Post-Civilisation Epic from Image Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2017

Set some years after the Earth was overrun by creatures of legend and the subsequent collapse of civilisation, The Realm is a comic that fuses its magical elements with the grittiest…

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Scales & Scoundrels #1-2 – Girner and Galaad’s Accessible Fantasy Romp Proves to Be Sheer Escapist Fun

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2017

Scales & Scoundrels is a comic that wears its fantasy influences on its sleeves with the most ostentatious of flourishes. But while its tale of loveable rogues, adventurous camaraderie and…

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