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Best Comic Books of 2017 - #5

Welcome to the Comic Bastards end of the year list. Similar to our group reviews, each of the participating writers will be giving their picks for their best and also worst comics of 2017. Without further ado, here are our #5 picks for Best of 2017.

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Worst Comic Books of 2017 - #5

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Best Anime of 2017

By Dustin Cabeal

Here are my picks for the Best Anime of 2017! You can see my Worst Anime of 2017 by clicking here, and you can also see the Best/Worst Movies of 2017 by clicking their respected titles. Be sure to check back for Comic Books later today and do tell me your picks, I'm sure my list will be argued and hated, but I'm sticking to it!

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Worst Anime of 2017

By Dustin Cabeal

Hey, we got through the Best/Worst of movies for 2017 and here we are on the Worst Anime of 2017. You can see the best here and look out for comic books later today. It was a rough year for anime, there's a lot of shit that could have made this list, but here are my picks!

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Best Movies of 2017

By Dustin Cabeal

Welcome to my Best Movies of 2017 list! You can check out the anime and comic lists later today so keep an eye out for that. You can also see the Worst Movies of 2017 by clicking here. Now, these movies are my picks based on what I've seen this year, but it was a pretty run of the mill year for movies. If you've got picks leave in the comics and I'll look at them and make comments of my own!

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Worst Movies of 2017

By Dustin Cabeal

Welcome to my end of the year movie list. Later today you'll get the Anime, and Comic list so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, this is the worst of list for movies. By no means did I see every bad movie and I could have filled this is a lot of obvious choices, but I stuck to a lot of nerdom or personally offensive "movies." You can find the Best Movies of 2017 list by click here.

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5 Questions About 5x5 Fest

By Dustin Cabeal

Ghost City Comics is presenting another contest on their site and this time it's called 5x5 Fest. Essentially you have five days to make five pages of a comic and will be given a prop, setting and a line of dialogue to include in your comic. Judges will pick the winners and I will be reviewing the winners. Exciting right?! Keeping with the theme of "5" I asked Michael Ruiz-Unger and Tucker Tota about 5x5 Fest.

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Travesty and The Anime Adaptation of Black Clover

By Dustin Cabeal

At first, it was just the terrible voice selection and direction of the voice actors that made me dislike what I was watching. In all the pages of Black Clover that I’ve read in my head, never once did I imagine the main character constantly yelling like some idiot man-child that had watched a lot of DBZ growing up and suddenly thought yelling like Goku was “cool” to do. Maybe that’s what studio Pierrot wanted though, an instant comparison to one of the longest-running and popular franchises of all time. What could possibly go wrong copying something to such a degree?

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Comic Heroes Across Multiple Industries

In recent years, you've probably either seen at least a few of the AAA summer blockbuster superhero films, or know someone who has. Indeed, even very casual fans of the genre or those not generally interested by superheroes have found something to like about many of the most popular superheroes, such as the Guardians of the Galaxy team.

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7 Must-Read Wonder Woman Comics for Fans

At one point, we were all convinced DC was never going to see real success with their superhero and comic movies. Marvel was hitting homerun after homerun and DC was left in the dark. Sure, they may have been selling tickets, but that was because dedicated fans were prepared to offer them chance after chance. Then Wonder Woman came along and changed everything.

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IndieGoGo: Shadow Draw – First Impressions

By Dustin Cabeal

It has been a long time since I talked about or posted a project that’s either on or coming to a crowd-funded platform. I’ll be honest with you all since I get asked all the time why I stopped (and likely the reason I’m cursed at in private) covering crowd funded projects, and the reason is that there’s just too damn many. I am one dude and to be quite honest the bulk of the requests I was given had no info and nothing for me to see and write about. It’s extremely difficult to help someone when you don’t know anything about their project other than the surface level stuff. It was difficult writing articles worth reading about projects I could hardly talk about. Soon enough, I was getting numerous requests for IndieGoGo/Kickstarter coverage, and it got to the point that I had to decide if I was covering comics or crowd funded projects. I choose comics.

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Review: Foundmi – Series 2

By Dustin Cabeal

Foundmi is an interesting product. One that really depends on your way of life and the necessity of such a device. It’s a small Bluetooth enable product the size of a keychain, which is perfect because that’s one of the intended places for it to be attached.

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Interview: Emily B. Owen, Creator of Brain Shoodles

By Wes Jones

I reviewed Brain Shoodles earlier this week with a perfect score. Needless to say I really enjoyed it. Writer/Artist Emily B. Owen was nice enough to sit down and answer a few questions about herself and her new book.

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Check Out Ghost City Comics Podcast, The Dustin Cabeal Episode!

By Dustin Cabeal

If you don't know me, then Hi... I'm Dustin Cabeal, and I'm pretty much Comic Bastards with the exception of great reviewers that help me cover a ton of books. All the rest that you see, the press releases, the one-off opinion pieces, the podcasts... that's me. I also do reviews which feels like something I should mention.

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Interview: Ghost City Comics

Full disclosure: Comic Bastards is a sponsor for Ghost City Comic Competition and will be reviewing the winners picked by a panel of judges. For more information, please visit Ghost City Comics.

I had a chance to interview Michael Ruiz-Unger and Tucker Tota about their Ghost City Comic Competition that’s currently running. You’ll also be able to hear me on their podcast in production talking about the site. It’s a little cross promotion, but the goal is the same, to give information about the other. On their podcast, you’ll hear about what makes Comic Bastards tick, and in this interview, you’ll get some background information on the first indie comic competition.

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Mad At Joss Whedon For His Wonder Woman Script? Okay, but Maybe You Shouldn’t Be

Everyone is high on Wonder Woman at the moment, and that’s great, it’s actually long due, but as fans tend to do they want to digest everything imaginable for a character after falling in love with them on the big screen. I get it, some people just want more media to digest, but only if it’s in movie format. Instead of reading a bunch of great Wonder Woman comics, people got a hold of Joss Whedon’s unproduced Wonder Woman script from 2007. The differences in quality and message outraged the internet. Which isn’t surprising, but let’s look at this for a moment.

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Review: Wonder Woman Standing Tall from EntertainArt

By Dustin Cabeal

Originally I had hoped to write this review before the Wonder Woman movie released, but a nasty bout of the flu and the timing of my vacation dictated that I would instead write this review now. When it comes to reviewing a product there are several questions that you must ask yourself along the course of the review. These questions are how any reviewer worth a damn will give you a solid, unbiased review. At least in my opinion.

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The Top 5 Marvel Slots Games

Go to any online casino and you’ll find that the slots are some of the most prominent games – but then they’re estimated to be the biggest money earners so it’s not such a surprise. What is surprising though, is the sheer range available. There are games designed to suit every taste and interest and movies are a particularly popular genre.

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DC’s Deal with Playtech Could be a Huge Step for the Studio as They Seek to Usurp Marvel

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is an already well-established gold mine which has pulled in mass audiences every year since the release of Iron Man in 2008. The total revenue for all 15 films so far is over $4.5 billion before considering inflation, and the model is something that other studios are desperately trying to replicate. DC have arrived late to the party with their extended universe, and Man of Steel was the studio’s first offering in 2013. There is a lot of work to be done to be able to contend with the might of Marvel and their already much-loved characters, but expanding the franchise beyond cinema is one way of attracting wider audiences.

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Through Gambit's Eyes - Will the Gamble Pay Off?

Gambit has been a favorite among fans of the Marvel comic book universe since his first appearances in Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 and Uncanny X-Men #266, both published in 1990. Also known as Ragin’ Cajun, the good-streaked mutant rogue from New Orleans has stirred the hearts and imagination of many with his personality as much as his explosive card-slinging skills. Anticipation for the upcoming movie adaptation has been building with every update, whether related to a new juicy detail or another delay. Perhaps, its creators’ lengthy deliberation will result in an X-Men instalment to rival the public’s approval and box-office success of Deadpool and Logan. Good things come to those who wait, as they say, and it is hoped that this will be one such case.