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It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood’s “Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel” Masterpiece is a Triumphant Testament to the Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! To say I am far more interested in Zoe Thorogood’s work when it’s her own pure and unfiltered artistic vision rather than when she’s illustrating someone else’s…

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‘Stray Dogs’ and ‘Stray Dogs: Dog Days’ – Fleecs and Forstner’s Canine Thriller is All the More Chilling for Its Seemingly Incongruous Visuals

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2022

Sometimes a comic’s presentation, design and visual approach is so in contrast to its subject matter that the incongruous and the apposite become happy bedfellows. Such is the case with…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, August 4th for an Image Comics Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 2, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, August 4th with an Image Comics Special. Not only do…

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The Closet #1 – Revisit Your Childhood Fears in this Unsettling New Image Horror Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2022

Of all the standards of horror fiction those that touch on our childhood fears have a particular resonance. They represent a time in our lives when the wider world was…

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Little Monsters #1 – What Secrets Lurk at the Heart of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s New Post-Apocalyptic Horror Series from Image?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2022

I went into Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s new Image Comics series Little Monsters completely blind, not having read so much as a press release or even a line of…

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The Department of Truth Vol. 2: The City Upon a Hill – Impressive New Image Series Continues to Question What, and How, We Believe

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 2, 2021

The first volume of The Department of Truth established the hot new Image series’ mind-bending premise; that enough people believing in one form of reality would manifest it. Conspiracy theories…

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Reckless: Destroy All Monsters – A Solid, Melancholic Instalment of Brubaker and the Phillips’ Stellar Series

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 15, 2021

In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. But within the world of Reckless, quite a…

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Vinyl #1 – The Premiere Issue of Wagner & Hillyard’s Series Ticks All the Boxes for a Promising Double-Platinum Hit from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • July 13, 2021

Vinyl #1 starts off with lots of blood and gore and ends with the promise of more to come in 12-Gauge Comics’ new original story about a serial killer with…

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Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book – Pulp and Past Memories Make This Brubaker and the Phillips Book One of Their Best Yet

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 15, 2021

The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…

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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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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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The Silver Coin #1 – Zdarsky and Walsh’s Tale is Your Ticket to Fear Incarnate in the New Image Comics Horror Series

  • by John Trigonis
  • April 23, 2021

As the first tale of terror in The Silver Coin #1, a new anthology series from Image Comics, ‘The Ticket’ by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Michael Walsh delivers a…

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Getting It Together – Sweet Slice-of-Life Relationship Stories for the Modern Era

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 26, 2021

The world is falling apart, and Jack is stuck in the middle. Well, at least the relationship between Jack’s best friend Sam and Jack’s sister (and roommate) Lauren is. The…

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The Department of Truth Vol. 1: The End of the World – A Hypnotic and Horrifying Masterpiece on Conspiracies and Beliefs from Tynion IV, Simmonds and Bidikar

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 24, 2021

Phillip K. Dick once said “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” But, ironically enough, the paranoid sci-fi author never fully believed this saying,…

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Nocterra #1 – Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel Take Us into the Darkest Future Ever Conceived

  • by John Trigonis
  • March 12, 2021

Stay lit and sit––Scott Snyder & Tony S. Daniel’s Nocterra #1 from Image Comics and Best Jackett Press takes off on a Mad-Maxian roadshow into the darkest future ever conceived….

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Karmen #1 – Guillem March’s Exuberant Euro-vision of the Afterlife Loses a Little in Translation

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 10, 2021

Guillem March has trodden the mean streets of Gotham in the past, with work on Batman, Catwoman and Harley Quinn for DC Comics. However, the Mallorcan artist is back on…

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Scene of the Crime – Image Comics Revisit a Solid Early Milestone from the Careers of Brubaker, Lark and Phillips

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • February 25, 2021

It’s a familiar story. A woman walks into a PI’s office, lights a cigarette, and asks him to track down her missing sister. The PI, although sceptical, accepts the client’s…

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Haha #1-2 – Vanesa Del Rey and Zoe Thorogood Bring W. Maxwell Prince’s Clown-Themed Tales of Human Frailty to Vivid Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2021

Two issues in and Image’s six-issue series Haha – a collection of complete-in-one stories revolving around the world of clowns – is already proving to be a bleakly comedic affair….

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