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Once & Future Vol. 1 – Gillen and Mora’s High-Energy Supernatural Romp Captures the Power of Myth and Magic

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 22, 2020

The number of reprints indicated in the cover gallery at the end of this collection reveal that Once & Future – written by Kieron Gillen and with artwork by Dan…

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Preview: Folklords #5 – Take a Look at the Finale of the Critically Acclaimed BOOM! Studios Series from Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and Company Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2020

Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, we have a preview of the finale of the Broken Frontier Award-nominated Folklords series. If you’re already reading the book we don’t need to tell you…

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Preview: Bear – Ben Queen and Joe Todd-Stanton Bring a Touching Tale of Canine Devotion to Archaia this Summer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2020

We’ve been huge fans of Joe Todd-Stanton’s Brownstone’s Mythical Collection series from Flying Eye Books (you can read reviews of the first three books here at Broken Frontier). So we’re…

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Preview: Origins – Life After Humans Explored in a New Graphic Novel Coming from BOOM! Studios Later this Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2020

It’s a few months away yet but when we see art as breathtaking as the following preview from BOOM! Studios we feel duty bound to share it. Origins hits store…

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Preview: Slaughterhouse-Five – Ryan North and Albert Monteys to Adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Novel for BOOM! Studios/Archaia

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

A medium with a unique relationship to the concept of time meets a novel with much the same outlook later this year when BOOM! Studios adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel…

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Preview: Alienated #1 – Spurrier and Wildgoose’s Subversive Coming-of-Age Story Debuts in February from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2020

BOOM! Studios’ serial comics line had a notably strong year in 2019 which was reflected in a Broken Frontier Award nomination for Folklords and, of course, that BF Award win…

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Just Beyond: The Scare School – R.L. Stine’s Creepy Tale for Younger Readers Features Energetic Visuals from Kelly and Nichole Matthews

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 27, 2019

From R.L. Stine, the author behind the phenomenon that is children’s horror book series Goosebumps, comes this series of eerily creepy tales for younger readers that promises to take them…

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Preview: Folklords #2 – Take a Sneak Peek at the Next Issue of Kindt, Smith and Company’s Breakout Fantasy Comic from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 16, 2019

“With a mischievous hint of the meta this opening instalment underlines Folklords’ claim on the title of the Next Big Thing in serial comics.” That’s what we said about the first…

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Preview: Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas #1 – Grant Morrison and Dan Mora Reunite for a BOOM! Studios Festive Tradition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2019

While Christmas may still seem a long way off, the pre-holidays solicits are full of festive themed comics. BOOM! Studios have announced the latest entry in their own annual Yuletide…

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Folklords #1 – Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and Company’s Fantasy Series with a Twist Immediately Hooks Its Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2019

The immediate thing the reader takes away from the first issue of Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and company’s Folklords is what a sublimely perfect issue it is in terms of…

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Preview: Something is Killing the Children #2 -Take an Advance Look at the Second Issue of the Smash Hit Horror Comic from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2019

Something is Killing the Children has proved to be one of the monster serial comics hits of the summer, with numerous reprintings already for its first issue. We reviewed its…

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The Avant-Guards Vol. 1 – Love, Friendship and Basketball Abound in Usdin and Hayes’ Escapist Comedy Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2019

Compiling the first four issues of Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes’ 12-issue series (or maxiseries as we used to call them back in the day), The Avant-Guards is ostensibly that…

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Something is Killing the Children #1 – BOOM! Studios’ Moodily Unnerving New Horror Series Lives Up to All the Hype

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2019

When it comes to a new horror comic the greatest compliment I can pay is to compare it to the visceral fear induced by the Moore/Bissette/Totleben/Wood Swamp Thing issues. And…

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Staff Picks for August 28, 2019 – The Beano, Tommy Gun Wizards, Grease Bats, Marvel Comics #1000 and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 27, 2019

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, comics event or digital…

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Sparrowhawk – Enjoy the Sheer Choreographed Spectacle of Dawson and Basla’s Dark Fantasy from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2019

It’s a catchy hook but whether the somewhat awkward tagline “Teen Victorian Fairy Fight Club” really gives the premise of Sparrowhawk its due is debatable. Written by Delilah S. Dawson…

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Bags (Or a Story Thereof) – Gavin Fullerton Adapts Patrick McHale’s Weird but Very Human Story of One Man’s Love for His Missing Dog

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2019

Bags (Or a Story Thereof) has been adapted by Gavin Fullerton from a projected novel that eventually became an experimental short story by animator Patrick McHale (creator of Over the…

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1: High School is Hell – The Scooby Gang Get the Reboot Treatment in this New BOOM! Studios Take on the Buffy Mythos

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2019

Bringing successful television franchises into the comics medium is always a difficult path to navigate. By definition major character development is near impossible and every story borders on the realms…

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Giant Days #50 – Cricketing Fun and Games Abound as the Long-Running BOOM! Series Approaches Its Conclusion

  • by Holly Raidl
  • May 3, 2019

Starting with a joke about the annoyance of teaching parents technology, the main story in the latest issue of Giant Days is centred around a cricket match, in which Graham…

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