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Staff Picks for August 16, 2017 – Mage: The Hero Denied, Cloudia & Rex, Silver Surfer and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 16, 2017

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 3, 2017 – A Castle in England, Amazing Age, Tilly and the Time Machine and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2017

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

Features

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Bringing Back Newsprint – Alterna Publisher Peter Simeti Talks About Appealing to New Readers with Old School Production Values

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • April 18, 2017

Alterna Comics goes retro with their new line of comics by printing on newsprint, distributing to newsstands and rolling back cover prices to $1.50. These days there seems to be…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 9, 2016 – Saving Grace, Namesake, Violent Love and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 8, 2016

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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All My Ghosts – Jeremy Massie Paints a Bittersweet Portrait of a Small Town in Decline

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 30, 2016

Well-crafted and emotionally stirring, All My Ghosts, Jeremy Massie’s fictional account of a town and a protagonist left behind by the rest of the world, is a work of rare…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 23, 2016 – All My Ghosts, The Shadow Glass, Circuit-Breaker, Agony, 2000 AD and Klaus

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 22, 2016

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

News · Previews

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Preview: The Last West V.1

  • by Richard Boom
  • May 28, 2014

Alterna Comics has provided BF with an exclusive preview to THE LAST WEST VOL.1, debuting on June 18th 2014. THE LAST WEST VOL.1 Summary: It’s July, 1945. The world’s first…

News · Previews

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Preview: FUBAR: Better Red than Dead

  • by Richard Boom
  • May 20, 2014

Alterna Comics provided BF with a preview to FUBAR: Better Red than Dead, a one-shot coming out May 21, 2014. FUBAR: Better Red than Dead one-shot 32 pgs, BW, Horror/Military…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Mother Russia: Jeff McComsey has yet another FUBAR Kickstarter hit on his hands

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • October 7, 2013

Most Kickstarter campaigners would happily donate their kidney to see that fundraising bar turn completely green. All green means their project has been 100% funded and that they can bring…

Reviews

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Monstrosity Volume One

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • September 5, 2013

Alterna Comics reminds us monsters come in all shapes and sizes in this wonderfully eclectic and creep-filled showcase of top-notch indie talent. Reborn in the recent explosion of crowdfunded self-publishing…

News · Top Stories

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Monstrosity: A Monster Anthology Designed to Thrill

  • by Richard Boom
  • August 14, 2013

MONSTROSITY, is a comics anthology featuring over twenty original stories using ‘monsters’ as the books overarching theme. All new works from creators such as J. Bone (Multiple Eisner nominee and…

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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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