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Review: Bitch Planet #9

By Robert Larson

This was the first issue of Bitch Planet that has failed to grab or affect me in a really strong way. Every issue is so visceral and so full of subtext, references to the present, and complicated intersectional feminism that I always have plenty to think about when I finish the issue. But I finished reading this particular issue, and it had no real impact on me. It just advances the plot, and it doesn’t even do that to the normal standards of Bitch Planet. Perhaps it’s just an off issue? I hope so. Warning: I will be discussing spoilers here.

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Review: The Big Book of Superpowers

By Dustin Cabeal

I’m going to echo a lot of what I said in my review for The Big Book of Girl Power, here in my review for The Big Book of Superpowers. The main reason being that they have all the same strengths and weaknesses, which is funny since that’s what this book is about.

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Review: The Big Book of Girl Power

By Dustin Cabeal

The Big Book of Girl Power is essentially an encyclopedia of female characters in the DC Universe. Gives their origins, powers and occasionally their main villain. It is targeted towards children and it’s almost perfect in that regard.

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Review: Flash Gordon: King's Cross #1

By Laramie Martinez

Flash Gordon: King’s Cross #1 is a great introduction to a team up series. More often than not you’ll find team up books falling into the same traps. They bog themselves down by going to all kinds of lengths to show us how and why each of the team members decided to join forces. Often there will be some kind of misunderstanding that must be brought to a head and then resolved before the team can actually focus on the true problem. King’s Cross skips all that, instead the issue focuses on showing the readers who the heroes are as individuals, giving us glimpses into their personalities and styles.

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Review: Walking Dead #160

By Robert Larson

The war with the Whisperers becomes more serious in this issue. At first, it was a battle between the Whisperers and Rick’s army, and the people who were dying were soldiers. Their deaths could be expected to a certain extent. But now that both the Whisperers and Rick’s men have split up, the individual communities are being forced to man their own battlements against the enemy. Just how violent it will be is still unclear, but it’s going to be hard to undo this damage, especially since Rick is now facing a new internal challenge. Warning: I will be discussing spoilers here.

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Review: Unfollow #13

By Chris Tresson

Unfollow is the best series Vertigo has going right now, hands down. The series is an interesting read and I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read previously. Saying that, up until a few weeks ago, I did have a big stack of back issues piled up on my reading table (I don’t call it that because I read at it, it’s just a table covered in books that I haven’t had a chance to read yet.) I've read this series in big chunks at various points but I’ve managed to catch up now, hence me deciding to review the latest issue. So like myself staring down at that reading table o' mine, let’s stop stallin’ and get on with it… Unfollow, issue thirteen. Doin' it.

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Review: Battlestar Galactica: Gods and Monsters #1

By Laramie Martinez

I must be feeling nostalgic this month, because I’ve got another review of a comic series based on an old T.V. show. Battlestar Galatica: Gods and Monsters is a pleasant, albeit somewhat jarring trip down memory lane. I haven’t watched the series for a few years now so when I was dropped back into the fleet it took me awhile to get my bearings. So much happens in the show that it can be confusing to try to remember what events happened or have yet to happen in the timeline. This issue shows promise, but it lacks a fundamental characteristic of the Battlestar Galactica franchise, which make it a little less interesting than it could be.

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Review: Hellchild: The Unholy #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Hellchild reminded me a little of BOOM!’s Lucifer series, but with a Wolverine movie twist to it. I didn’t read the first Hellchild series, and frankly, you don’t need to have read this new series. There’s a nifty full page recap in the middle of the comic that gives you all the details about Hellchild which is a good thing since readers will walk away with knowledge about the character that’s not presented in the comic.

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Review: Catwoman: Election Night #1

By Justin Wood

Okay, I have no real idea where to start with this. Presumably, to cash in on the repulsive election we're suffering through right now, DC Comics decided to jam out some sort of 'topical' response quickly. This thing is a genuine oddity folks. There hasn't been something so desperately political and equally confused about its subject in the Dark Knight's library since 1971's 'Batman' #230.

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Review: Myopia #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Since I’ve been reviewing comics, Dynamite has always been a strange publisher to review. Overall, there’s no consistency to their product which makes them hard to compare to other publishers. Perhaps being all over is what works for them. It’s how they can produce titles that I find dreadful, but then also produce something like Myopia that I love. At the end of the day, though, it’s hard for me to say “Oh man, I hope they make more books like Myopia” because I know they won’t. I don’t know what they’ll do next… probably more Smosh or some shit.

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