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Review: Batman is Trustworthy

By Dustin Cabeal

Having read the previous two books in the Capstone/DC kids books, I decided to give it one more shot because I really would love a kids Batman book that I could share with my son. The same problem persists in Batman is Trustworthy as it did in Be A Star, Wonder Woman and Bedtime for Batman. The message isn’t subtle and the equivalent of me just telling my child to do something while showing them a picture of Batman and saying the word “Batman” over and over.

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Review: Bettie Page #2

By Dustin Cabeal

After a lackluster first issue, I decided to give this series another shot. Unfortunately, it’ll be the last shot I give it. It’s not a bad comic. I’m not quitting it because the story is awful or because the artwork is unenjoyable. It’s just a boring comic book.

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Review: Southern Bastards #17

By Zeb Larson

Southern Bastards is finally back, after a long hiatus. Both Sebastian Girner, the series editor, and Jason Latour lost their fathers within a few weeks of each other, and understandably this pushed back publication of the book. But I’ll be selfish and won’t lie: it’s good, damned good, to finally have this series back. We’re in the middle of several different threads of narrative payoff even as new ones take their place. All of the different factions and people around Boss want him dead, and he’s running out of ways to make himself indispensable to them. For once, his biggest problem isn’t going to be what happens next on the gridiron.

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Review: Corsair #1

By Oliver Gerlach

Corsair #1, currently on Kickstarter, is an interesting piece of uniquely British horror work, for all the good and all the bad associated with that subgenre. It follows Agent Corsair, a man tasked with investigating the nastier side of the occult. It’s a sound, entertaining premise, with a lot of potential to explore a range of different aspects of both horror and Britain itself.

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Review: Scarlet Rose #1

By Oliver Gerlach

Scarlet Rose is an ongoing French series of comics, currently ten years into its run, but only newly available in English. Apparently very successful in France, it’s something of a shame that it’s taken so long to make it over here. It’s a thrilling child-friendly historical adventure about a girl, her sword, and her obsession with a highwayman known as The Fox.

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Review: Quince #1-2

By Dustin Cabeal

I have meant to check out Quince… Well, since the first two issues released. They’re not well past that, but I wanted to get a review down before the series ended and I missed out completely. The concept is that a young girl has her quinceañera and then obtains superpowers for a year.

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Review: Mi Sweetheart #1

By Dustin Cabeal

There is so much potential to Mi Sweetheart. The first few pages gave me flashes of Sexcastle, but that quickly faded when the story got going. It starts off clever enough with a hit team being sent to take out an impossible target. The main character of our story is a woman with incredible abilities, but she’s gone “rogue,” so they’ve been sent to kill her. Instead of doing that they drug the driver and leave the country. Then we spend time with the main character and the story trails off from there.

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Review: Doctor Crowe #2

By Dustin Cabeal

Doctor Crowe #2 came out a month or so back, but I’m just now getting the time to catch up on the series. If you’re unfamiliar, and you likely are, it’s a series of short stories that are all written by Corey Fryia and illustrated by different creators. It’s a lot like Hellboy or Baltimore in that the stories connected, but don’t rely on you having intimate details of each tale. It's revealed as you read and so really all you have to do is start reading.

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