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Unboxing: Loot Anime – March 2017

By Dustin Cabeal

If you watched/listened to this week's Super S - Anime Podcast E.022, then you already saw this. Otherwise, it's one of the better Loot Anime in recent memory. The shirt could have been better and maybe more relevant than a three-year-old anime spinoff. Otherwise, good shit.

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Seven Seas Licenses ANTI-MAGIC ACADEMY: THE 35TH TEST PLATOON Manga Omnibus

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon manga series by Touki Yanagimi and Youhei Yasumura, a magic-and-military fusion famous for captivating audiences with its recent anime on Crunchyroll!

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Over 1.2 Million Copies of “Berserk” Manga Sold

He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior, spoken of in whispers. The bearer of a gigantic sword and an iron hand, he wears the scars of countless battles and tortures. After over three years of anticipation, creator Kentaro Miura (Giganto Maxia, Japan, King of Wolves) has completed the latest volume of the ongoing Berserk saga. Manga mayhem to the extreme is back with a vengeance!

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ComicBlitz Launches on Android as its Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Targets $100K

Today ComicBlitz, a rapidly-growing digital subscription service that offers unlimited access to comics, is launching its Android app. The all-you-can-eat comics startup is also announcing today that over 200 individual investors have participated in its equity crowdfunding campaign, and have collectively contributed nearly $100K. The WeFunder campaign, intentionally designed for comic fans who want to contribute small amounts to participate in the company’s growth, is set to close on April 29.

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MAD About Trump: A Brilliant Look at Our Brainless President

MAD DUMPS ON TRUMP: A BRILLIANT LOOK AT OUR BRAINLESS PRESIDENT is an all-out comedy assault on the most idiotic idiot to ever reach the White House (George W. Bush and visitors included)! In these 128 pages, President Trump is mercilessly mocked, relentlessly ridiculed and savagely satirized. The book features MAD’s sharpest satiric shots at “The Donald,” comically chronicling his rise from obnoxious businessman to really obnoxious reality show host to uber obnoxious “Commander-in-Tweet.” Please note: MAD will not offer refunds on this book when Trump is impeached!

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Titan Comics Announces The 2017 Doctor Who Comics Day

With Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor vworping to BBC AMERICA in the U.S. and Space in Canada on Saturday, April 15 at 9/8c, fans get a chance to continue their celebration of all things Doctor Who with Titan Comics’ Doctor Who Comics Day on Saturday, September 2, 2017.

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Review: Attack on Titan E.026 – “Beast Titan”

By Dustin Cabeal

Let me clear something up before we jump into this review. I’m not a diehard, all or nothing Titan fan. The characters aren’t deep; the main character is an insensitive dick that only cares about his revenge, and everyone cries a lot. Not that I can blame them on that last one since the idea of living in this world is enough of a reason to eat a gun. Hell, I didn’t even like this show until Eren turned into a fucking Titan.

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Review: The Courier: From The Ashes #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Listen if we all make it to the dystopian future I’m going to give you a piece of advance, use in-house couriers. There’s a lot of reasons to do this, but the biggest is that it’s cheaper in the long run. It makes someone in your crew feel like a vital part of the team, and you don’t have to give out money to strangers. The second reason is that anytime there’s a courier, be it dystopian or otherwise, they eventually pick a side in a confrontation, and that could bite you in the ass.

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Review: Zombie Tramp – Easter Special

By Dustin Cabeal

I was always a fan of the holiday specials when growing up. I remember a DC Christmas special with particular fondness. These days, they’re making a bit of a return, and much like when I was growing up some are good, and some are shit. I rank the Zombie Tramp specials in the former as the series has always found creative ways to tie into the theme of the holiday, without it being annoying, point in case the Easter special.

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Review: Mighty Man #1

By Jonathan Edwards

As much as I've heard about Erik Larsen (which is admittedly not a ton, but enough to be generally familiar with his work), I don't think I've ever actually sat down and actually read something from him. So, I figured a one-shot focusing on one (with several others being present) of his characters seemed as good a place as any to start. And to its credit, I nothing about the characters and world lost or confused me. It was all pretty straightforward or easy enough to infer.

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Review: Infinite 7 #3

By Dustin Cabeal

The story of Infinite 7 is finding its stride, but the problem I continue to have with the series is that each issue has a lengthy backstory for one of the seven members. While that’s not terrible, it doesn’t leave much room for the rest of the story.

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Review: Darkness Visible #3

By Jonathan Edwards

This was an odd direction to go with the third issue. We'd just finished setting the stage for Daniel Aston's story to really kick off. But now, instead of doing that, we're being yanked back in time to World War II so we can learn how the Shaitan came to co-exist with humans in modern Britain. It's not like that an inherently bad or uninteresting concept, I just don't see any good reason for doing it now. Especially when there doesn't appear to be any real connection to the main story. It's just "yep, this is how it happened." That being said, it's not a bad issue in and of itself.

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Review: Dimension 404 E.03 – “Chronos”

By Dustin Cabeal

After two fairly disappointing episodes of Dimension 404, I didn’t have the highest expectations for the third episode. It instantly played on my 80s nostalgia though with a cartoon about time travel and warmness to the screen that screamed 80s. As much as I like Rocket Jump, the biggest downfall of the first two episodes was the fact that it still looked like an internet video rather than TV. That isn’t technical in the least bit, but it’s one of those things that if you were to put them in front of someone that watches TV with any sort of regularity and then showed them the first two episodes of Dimension 404, well, it would look amateurish

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Review: Dimension 404 E.02 – “Cinethrax”

By Dustin Cabeal

It is hard not to compare something like Dimension 404 to the things it's clearly inspired from, especially when the opening is a narrated monologue from Mark Hamill that rings so many Twilight Zone bells, it’s hard to ignore.

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Review: Beast Wagon Finale

By Dustin Cabeal

Beast Wagon has been a hell of a ride. A story set in a zoo in which all the animals talk like people in their thirties but then filled with so many political, social and cultural comments that it’s hard to digest everything in one reading.

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Review: Black Cloud #1

By Daniel Vlasaty

Black Cloud is a book where I really have no idea what’s going on. I read it twice and I still feel like I’m just barely starting to understand. Like I’m just starting to kind of maybe get it. Black Cloud is about storytelling. It’s about how life is a story. It’s about the story that’s all around us, the one we’re living in right now. It’s also about dreams and magic and fear and history and adventure. Jason Latour and Ivan Brandon have created something really special here. Because, even though this is a complex and difficult first issue, it’s also beautiful and welcoming and invigorating.

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Review: Deathstroke #16

By Dustin Cabeal

Goddamnit, I’m back again for Deathstroke. One day I’ll take a break from these reviews just to catch a breath from my perspective, but as long as Power Girl is in this series, I’m there. Speaking of which, this was almost a very different review because of something that happened in the issue. It was almost a, “How dare you” type of review. Not really, but I would have been very sad.

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Review: Rock Candy Mountain #1

By Daniel Vlasaty

I know of Kyle Stark through his amazing and ridiculous and fantastic Sexcastle. That book hit me out of nowhere. I had never even heard of it until I saw it on the shelf in the shop I was working in at the time. Just seeing the title on the spine, I knew I was buying that thing immediately. And I finished it in like an hour. It was so good. An homage to all the so-bad-they’re-actually-kind-of-good action/comedy movies of the 80s. I loved it. Anyway, what I mean to say is that Kyle Starks has a new book! And this is my review of the first issue!

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Review: Brave Chef Brianna #2 (of 4)

By Dustin Cabeal

The plot for this second issue was lost on me. It seems to be manufactured to bring Brianna and Suzan together on a united front, but the biggest question that the series has presented continues to go unanswered. Is Brianna breaking the “monster rules” and cooking with flour and sugar and other things that make food tasty?

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Review: Eleanor and the Egret #1

By Levi Remington

In John Layman and Sam Kieth's eclectic and surreal ode to classic European fables, Eleanor and the Egret #1 tells the story of Eleanor, a woman who steals art from all across Paris with the help of her magical pet bird, an Egret, who eats the stolen art and consequently expands in size by a significant degree, as birds do. Read ahead for my thoughts on the delightful beginnings of this bizarre miniseries. In the meantime, I'll be pondering the origins of a feather with Cheswick the cat, lamenting the absence of my Bird-Identification specialties, and picking advanced locks with the beak of a mystical heron.