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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ to Be Adapted as a Graphic Novel by Chris Ryall, Jacob Phillips and Abrams ComicArts

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2025

Megalopolis jumps media this Autumn via Abrams ComicArts… Abrams ComicArts to Publish Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis as an Original Graphic Novel Abrams ComicArts is thrilled to announce the debut graphic novel from…

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Dandelion – Writer Sabir Pirzada and a Host of Artists Give Us a Bold New Vision of the Future

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • June 11, 2024

There is a lot to digest in Dandelion, Image Comics’ anthology written by Sabir Pirzada with an all-star cast of artists. In Pirzada’s bold, yet alarming, vision of the not-too-distant…

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Forever Forward #1 – A Moody Page-Turner Offers an Enjoyable Darker Take on Time Travel

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • September 12, 2022

A fresh but darker take on time travel, Forever Forward #1 is the latest sci-fi thriller from writer Zack Kaplan (Eclipse, Port of Earth). Dr. Lewis Moody has finally cracked…

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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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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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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Reckless – Brubaker and the Phillips Provide an Intriguing Character Study Wrapped in a Satisfying Pulp Paperback

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 28, 2020

Ethan Reckless, freelance enforcer, operates out of an abandoned cinema. Despite his current shortage of funds, he is not eager to rent it out. The El Ricardo is a temple,”…

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Pulp – Westerns and Noir Collide in Another Satisfying Book from Brubaker and Phillips

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • September 17, 2020

One of the many problems facing aging freelance writer Max Winter is that his pulp-magazine publisher has taken the rights to his cowboy character, the Red Rover Kid, away from…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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That Texas Blood #1 – A Sardonic Slow Burn of Cinematic Proportions from Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips and Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • July 21, 2020

In his letter at the end of That Texas Blood #1, writer Chris Condon admits that this story was originally intended as a movie, but no one was willing to…

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