Review: Royal City #6
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Review: Royal City #6

By Ben Snyder

With Jeff Lemire’s second arc for Royal City, he sets up a fascinating introduction on the mystery that is Tommy from the original arc. Throughout the first five issues, the entire Pike family is haunted by their perceived version of Tommy; Tara by the baby brother she babysat and hoped the best for, Richie envisioned the brother he never got to spiral out and do drugs with; Patricia hallucinated the Tommy that took the cloth, but this is our first true glimpse into the true Tommy. The anxiety-ridden, possibly supernatural headache suffering teenager, filled with as much angst as anyone going through this period. And in this way, Lemire sets up what could be the most interesting arc the series could offer.

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Review: Ragman #1
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Review: Ragman #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Well, it was about time DC updated Ragman for a new generation. What the hell were we doing with our lives without Ragman in them? Let’s get serious for a moment… the character’s name is Ragman. It’s understandable for any publisher to use characters that they already own, it’s just how comic books work. Let’s not pretend to understand how a character named Ragman, whose powers come from his rags and his rags come from the souls of evil people that he’s absorbed, who must help him to reduce their sentence and go on to the afterlife, is still somehow relevant.

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Review: Plague #1-3
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Review: Plague #1-3

By Patrick Wolf

Plague is a medieval fantasy epic that takes place in the 14th century during the height of the European bubonic plague. Like many other fantasy stories, this series immerses the world of humans with that of other fantasy creatures. However, unlike its predecessors, this series isn’t afraid to flash some gore and controversy. So far, I’ve read the first three issues, and I’m happy to say this is an excellent series and certainly worth picking up.

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Review: The Family Trade #1
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Review: The Family Trade #1

By Ben Snyder

The Family Trade #1 offers an interesting introduction to a "what if" world in which neutral country was founded in the middle of the ocean, was ruled by a nepotistic governing class which was controlled by a secret society of assassins. It’s all relatively lofty and idealistic, and it succeeds most of the time in setting up a fun, and politically charged story arc told through the perspective of a chipper young assassin, however some story aspects can come across as incredibly heavy handed and the art, while not entirely bad, isn’t as impressive as the story.

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Review: Retcon #2
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Review: Retcon #2

By Jonathan Edwards

I don’t understand this book. I was hoping this second issue would help it more closely resemble Image’s summary for the series, but it didn’t. Instead, it just doubles down on the half-baked conspiracy premise, and it tries hard to show just how edgy and satirical it is. Except, rather than actually being either of those things, it’s just assholes being assholes to one another for twenty-some pages, and we’re left with little to no character development or plot progression.

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Review: Spectacle #1
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Review: Spectacle #1

By Dustin Cabeal

The play on words for the title of this comic is glorious. Spectacle is as fitting a title as you’ll ever hear for something. To go any further with telling you about this comic I will need to spoil it for you if the cover hasn’t already. Hell, the first page gives it away, but still, you’ve been warned.

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Review: Atomahawk #0
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Review: Atomahawk #0

By Daniel Vlasaty

I've never really been a fan of marauding barbarians as characters. That whole genre has never really done anything for me. I think it's because it's a genre where a lot of the stories are essentially the same. There's only so much that can be done with the genre, in my opinion. Like, I get it – there's a group of totally ripped and brutal barbarians, and they're also totally fucking badass. Or whatever. I don’t know. There's probably a little more to the genre than this. Usually, when one of these books ends up on the review list, I just scroll on past. So, why am I talking about this here? Two reasons, really. The first is because Atomahawk is – in a way – one of these stories, and the second reason is that I didn’t know how else to start this review.

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Review: Fighting American #1
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Review: Fighting American #1

By Justin McCarty

UK publisher Titan Comics reintroduces Fighting American to the modern audience. First introduced in the mid-1950s, Fighting American was Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s version of Captain America after they sold him to Timely Comics (Marvel). There have been a couple attempts to bring back the character before, but this is a direct continuation of the stories the character was built on sixty years ago. What we end up with seems to be a comic that is as true to the creator's original vision as it possibly can be. Granted, I have not read the original series.

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Comic Bastards Podcast - 016
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Comic Bastards Podcast - 016

By Dustin Cabeal

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016 - Welcome to the show and the site. I thought I would get to that pile on my desk this week, but that didn't happen. Life was busy off air for this solo podcasters so instead you just get a lot of first issues releasing this week. I hope that's good enough because that's all I have to offer!

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Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny Comic Books Coming in 2018 from IDW Publishing
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Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny Comic Books Coming in 2018 from IDW Publishing

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Fans who took their first step into a larger world with Star Wars Adventures are destined to love Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny. IDW Publishing and Lucasfilm are excited to collaborate on a new series further exploring the comic book adventures of Star Wars for all ages— Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny is a weekly comic book series that will star such popular Star Wars heroines as LeiaReyPadméAhsoka, and Hera along with the newest stars from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rose and Paige

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VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF THE CELEBRATED ANIME FILM BLAME!
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VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF THE CELEBRATED ANIME FILM BLAME!

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VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, thrilled a packed audience during its official panel at New York Comic Con this past weekend as it announced the acquisition of the North American home video and product licensing rights to the celebrated film, BLAME!

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Review: Tales from the Interface #1
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Review: Tales from the Interface #1

By Oliver Gerlach

Emmanuel Filteau’s Tales from the Interface is a strange piece, both in terms of creative content and production. The blurb for it promised giant crabs and weird adventure, so I felt I had to check it out. I suppose it delivered both of those, and the crabs were excellent, but I still didn’t love it.

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Help Las Vegas mend with our #VegasStrong❤ comic bundle
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Help Las Vegas mend with our #VegasStrong❤ comic bundle

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Las Vegas is where Pop! Goes the Icon was born and will always be where its heart resides. That heart was bruised (but not broken!) on Sunday, Oct. 1, when 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. In the aftermath, the Las Vegas community came together like never seen before to help victims and those affected by donating blood, providing shelter and transportation, collecting much-needed items, and helping to raise funds to cover medical and other expenses incurred as a result of this tragedy.

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