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Tagged: Kieron Gillen

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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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 8, 2020 – British Ice, Daphne Byrne, Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2020

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 August 14, 2019 – Once & Future, The Night, The Vigilant: Legacy and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 13, 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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Shout Out – Queer YA Comics Anthology Tells the Stories Its Creators Would Have Loved to Read Growing Up

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 5, 2019

Shout Out is an anthology edited by Andrew Wheeler (assistant editors Joamette Gil and BC Holmes) from TO Comix Press which contains eighteen shorts spanning numerous genres, made by creators…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 9, 2019 – Gunning for Hits, Wildcat: Turbo Jones, Criminal and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 8, 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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24 Panels – Over 50 Creators Come Together in a Truly Powerful Benefit Anthology for the Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2018

Whenever approaching a review of a project like 24 Panels there’s an understandable temptation to suspend a critical eye; to focus on promotion and publicity first and foremost. In short,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Wicked + The Divine: 1923 – Gillen and Koch’s Genre-Influenced Murder-Mystery One-Shot Contains a Deeper Meta Commentary

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 12, 2018

As if it’s taken this long for a Gillen and McKelvie joint to take the form of a bona fide murder-mystery story? It’s like when J.K. Rowling did her straight…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 7, 2018 – Shade the Changing Woman, Swords of the Swashbucklers, Gideon Falls, Why Art? and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 6, 2018

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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 15, 2017 – It’s Cold in the River at Night, The Wicked + The Divine, Misty, Bolivar, Evolution and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 14, 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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for December 7, 2016 – The Can Opener’s Daughter, Island, Motor Crush, Ditko Unleashed and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 6, 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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for August 12, 2015 – Including Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl, Judge Dredd: America, Dirty Rotten Comics, The Yankee, King Tiger and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 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…

Reviews

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Uber Volume 1 – Gillen and White’s Uncompromising Examination of the Super-Soldier as WMD is a Compelling and Unsettling Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2014

There is no gung-ho heroism in the pages of Uber; actions are borne from jaded pragmatism rather than any unrealistic sense of pure honour or ethical superiority. In that regard,…

The Wicked and the Divine #1 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Image Comics)

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The Wicked and the Divine #1 – Notebooks Out, Annotators, as Gillen and McKelvie Crash the Contemporary and the Cosmic

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 24, 2014

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie fire up the intriguing first chapter of a poptastic supernatural thriller that offers a psychic throwback to the glory days of Vertigo. It seems fitting that Kieron…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 18, 2014: The Wicked and the Divine, Iron Man, Escapo, Thomas Alsop & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 17, 2014

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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The Heroines Zine – A Celebration of Role Models from Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Lizz Lunney and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2014

What delighted me about The Heroines Zine when I first started flicking through its pages was the way in which it embraces old school zine philosophy. It really is a…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 18, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • December 17, 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…

News · Top Stories

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Sins And Secrets Revealed In Wolverine: Origin II

  • by Richard Boom
  • July 22, 2013

Press Release This November, blockbuster writer Kieron Gillen and fan-favorite artist Adam Kubert peel back Wolverine’s shadowy past in a direct sequel to one of the most important Marvel tales…

News · Top Stories

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Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Blasts Off

  • by Richard Boom
  • July 10, 2013

Armor up for an Iron Man epic like no other in Iron Man: Fatal Frontier—the latest game-changing Infinite Comic hitting digital devices this October! Following Wolverine: Japan’s Most Wanted, Iron…

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