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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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That Texas Blood Vol. 1 – Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips’s Lone Star Crime Drama is the Apex of Graphic Novel Crime Fiction

  • by John Trigonis
  • January 26, 2021

When I reviewed That Texas Blood #1 for Broken Frontier over the summer, I was really hoping that subsequent issues of this “sardonic slowburn of cinematic proportions” from Image Comics…

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Crossover #2 – This Image Series Remains Intriguing But, So Far, Lacks Depth

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 11, 2020

Last month, the hotly anticipated Image series Crossover landed, causing minor ripples throughout the comics community. Some found it filled with sparkling potential to address the nature of comics and…

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Home Sick Pilots #1 – Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard Present a Finely Paced Tale of Horror and High School Band Rivalry

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 10, 2020

Paper Girls meets The Shining along the darker alleyways of Nineties nostalgia in Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard’s Home Sick Pilots from Image Comics. Turning over the cover to Dan…

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Planet Paradise – Jesse Lonergan Propels Readers on a Journey Across Multiple Panels, Pages and Planets

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 4, 2020

Wielding a signature storytelling style all his own, Jesse Lonergan propels readers on a journey across multiple panels, pages, and planets in Planet Paradise from Image Comics. Without a doubt,…

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Blue in Green – A Spectacular Riff on a Familiar Tune from Ram V, Anand RK and Company

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 18, 2020

Erik Dieter always felt on the outside of things. He could never get close to his mother Alana, and when he returns home for her funeral in Blue in Green,…

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Crossover #1 – An Intriguing, and Problematic, First Issue of the Much Anticipated New Image Comics Series

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 6, 2020

“Who is more real: Us? Or Superman?”. This is the provocative question that opens the anticipated new Image series Crossover by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe and John J….

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