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The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira #1 – Bending Reality with Sapphira Olson and Her Fictionalized Versions of Herself (and Her Cat, Felicette)

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Sapphira Olson is a novelist and poet (Woman in the Ship, Parables, The Dandelion Tree, Android Author, Anna Newton Destroys the World, Stanley Park), but around…

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The Beef #1 – A Page-Turning Palette of Radioactive Greens and Blood Reds in the Inimitable Shaky Kane Style

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • March 7, 2018

Richard Starkings, Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane set out to stun with their new comic The Beef: Tainted Love via Image. In the making since 2014, this first of five…

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ELEPHANTME​N! An Irresistib​le Pulp Science-Fi​ction Noir

  • by Richard Boom
  • January 23, 2014

Press Release A new arc, a new slim trade paperback format, and a low introductory price make this the perfect opportunity to join the legions of ELEPHANTMEN fans with ELEPHANTMEN…

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Elephantmen #50

  • by Ricky Miller
  • July 19, 2013

Intelligent and moving dystopian sci-fi that, like the best of its genre, is as strong on our yesterdays and todays as it is on our potential tomorrows. “We had nothing,…

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Get in on Elephantmen with Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 27, 2013

Last week’s Image Comics press release announcing the 50th issue of Richard Starkings’s Elephantmen series instantly made me walk to my stacked graphic novel cupboard and pull out one of…

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