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Tagged: J. M. DeMatteis

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for May 2025 – Moonshadow, Spent, Low: Bowie’s Berlin Years, Checked Out and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 2025

Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and re-imagined to fit…

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Dark Horse to Bring J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Slice-of-Life Masterpiece ‘Brooklyn Dreams’ Back to Print in 2025

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 11, 2024

Well, this is very welcome news. J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Brooklyn Dreams is one of my all-time favourite comics works. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece of its genre….

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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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Staff Picks for June 19, 2019 – 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2019, Prince of Cats, In Waves, Moonshadow and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 18, 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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Girl in the Bay #1 – DeMatteis, Howell, Devlin and Robins Are a Creative Team in Perfect Synch in the Dark Horse/Berger Books Supernatural Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2019

There’s a text piece by writer J.M. DeMatteis at the end of the first issue of The Girl in the Bay – the latest book from the acclaimed Dark Horse Comics/Berger…

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Staff Picks for February 6, 2019 – The Girl in the Bay, Gunhawks, Female Furies and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 5, 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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Celebrating World Book Day UK 2018 – 10 Entry Point Graphic Novels for Non-Comic Readers that Showcase the Unique Language of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2018

It’s World Book Day in the UK today (for the rest of the world it’s late April!). Last year we asked comics folk for their graphic novel recommendations and we always grasp WBD…

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Staff Picks for August 30, 2017 – Darkseid Oversize Special, Michael Dormer and the Legend of Hot Curl, Doctor Who and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 29, 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, comics events or digital…

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Covers Album: David Robertson – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Dean Haspiel, Peter Bagge and Adam Hughes

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 15, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

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Staff Picks for February 1, 2017 – Seekers into the Mystery, Blood Blister, Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 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…

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Staff Picks for October 5, 2016 – Black Dog, Thought Bubble Anthology Collection, Shipwreck, Angel City and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 4, 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…

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Staff Picks for August 3, 2016 – March, Lady Killer 2, Growing Up in Public, The Adventures of Augusta Wind, Tales to Diminish and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 2, 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…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 1, 2015 – The Spire, We Stand on Guard, Crickets, Diary Comics and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 30, 2015

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…

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Preview: The Fox: Freak Magnet

  • by Richard Boom
  • July 2, 2014

It’s the critically acclaimed debut of the high-flying FOX! Emmy Award-winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel (BILLY DOGMA, HBO’S BORED TO DEATH) and Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Waid (DAREDEVIL, THRILLBENT) bring the…

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Occupy Comics Launches new David Mack & Amanda Palmer Story

  • by Richard Boom
  • March 26, 2014

Press Release One of the largest coalitions of socially-conscious creators in the history of comics, Occupy Comics will finally bring its complete, collected book to specialty retailers on April 1,…

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Justice League 3000 #1

  • by Evan Henry
  • December 19, 2013

With Legion of Super-Heroes now a title of the past, DC Comics is looking to keep interest in the heroes of the 31st century alive. Unfortunately, Justice League 3000 isn’t…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 11, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • December 11, 2013

It’s almost 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, BF…

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Brooklyn Dreams – DeMatteis and Barr’s Darkly-Humoured Meditation on Truth and the Efficacy of Memory is an Exultant Masterpiece of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2012

Brooklyn Dreams is one of those delightful occasions in your comics-reading experience when writer and artist seem so synchronised – so completely, overwhelmingly in tune with each other – that…

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