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Comic Book Quick Cuts: Image, Vertigo, IDW
DEADLY CLASS #1 (Image): Image does it again. A gorgeous, brutal gem of a book that follows a homeless teenager from a nook beneath a bridge to a secret school of assassins, DEADLY CLASS is another...
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GENRE SMASH!: Eric Kripke talks REVOLUTION, SUPERNATURAL
Tuesday night at the NerdMelt theater in Los Angeles, television writer and creator Eric Kripke was on hand for a panel called GENRE SMASH!—a nonprofit event sponsored by the Writer’s Guild Foundation...
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Comic Book Quick Cuts: Marvel, Vertigo, Boom!
AMERICAN VAMPIRE SECOND CYCLE #1 (Vertigo): Welcome back, AMERICAN VAMPIRE. You haven’t changed a bit. We still get Scott Snyder’s brilliant, no-holds-barred depiction of Skinner Sweet, now in Juarez...
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Comic Review: HINTERKIND Vol. 1 –“The Waking World”
HINTERKIND Vol. 1 – “The Waking World” Published by Vertigo Story by Ian Edginton Art by Francesco Trifogli Colors by Cris Peter Letters by Dezi Sienty With its elves, trolls, “ligons”, and satyrs,...
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Video Game Review: THE WOLF AMONG US Episode 3: “A Crooked Mile”
It seems there’s no slowing down the Telltale Games franchise train. They’ve already done JURASSIC PARK, BACK TO THE FUTURE, the critically acclaimed WALKING DEAD, and now, Vertigo’s comic seres FABLES...
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Comic Book Quick Cuts: Trades and Graphic Novels
THE WEIRDING WILLOWS VOLUME 1 (TITAN): The literary-mashup-thing has been done many times, most often with rights-free adventure stories of the 19th century, so you can’t blame me for being wary about...
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Shaking Up Science with FBP’s Simon Oliver
There are no traditional monsters in FEDERAL BUREAU OF PHYSICS, a weekly Vertigo title currently twisting brains in all sorts of fun shapes. There are, however, pockets of reality that don’t work,...
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Comic Review: BODIES #3
Writer: Si Spencer Artists: Meghan Hetrick (2014), Phil Winslade (1940), Tula Lotay (2050), Dean Ormston (1890) Letterers: Dezi Sienty, Taylor Esposito Colorist: Lee Loughridge Publisher: Vertigo I...
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Comic Book Quick Cuts: Punk Rock Zombies, Women in Prison, and Killer Memes
BITCH PLANET #1 (Image): It’s hard to ignore a book called BITCH PLANET. It’s even harder to ignore something that throws gender and racial expectations under the bus so readily without becoming...
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The Best Comics of 2014
Yup, it’s that time of year again. When I completed this list I realized that it contains exactly zero Marvel titles and zero DC “main line” titles. This was not intentional, as I’m enjoying several...
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