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Review: Half Past Danger 2: Dead to Reichs #1

By Dustin Cabeal

The first Half Past Danger was a decent series. It wasn’t particularly fresh of an idea, but at the time there wasn’t anything else hitting the shelves, so it was a welcomed change. That and creator Stephen Mooney’s artwork is pleasing to the eyeballs.

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Review: The Shattered

By Justin McCarty

MD Penman’s second story in his Eimurian Tales is a story of a young boy, Malwynn. He lives in the shadow of his abusive father, a storied soldier. In an effort to escape his wrath he stumbles upon a fissure that could bring back war to the area. Out of that fissure, Malwynn befriends an elf - shadir in the setting of the story. It is very much a hero’s journey. He must overcome his guilt, his father has made him believe it was his fault his mother died. He must stand up to his father.

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Review: Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack #1

By Dustin Cabeal

I never got into Samurai Jack. It wasn’t a lack of interesting, but just a bad time slot for my schedule at the time. Now, I don’t have cable, and while I think it’s interesting that it’s come back with a new series, I’m just not particularly excited. But I figured hey, Fabian Rangel, Jr. is writing the comic and I enjoy the hell out of his stories so let’s give it a shot.

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Review: Superb #3

By Justin McCarty

Superb is very familiar. There are teenage mutants. Laws are put in place to control said mutants. And prejudice towards them from the public forces them into hiding. Also, the obligatory government agency, whose responsibility it is to track down errant mutants and inter them. The twists here are that it was meteors that have fallen that possibly caused the mutations, and the main hero has Down Syndrome. A lot of stories have been popping up that include non-traditional supertypes, they have Aspergers, (not the Sherlock kind; the normal kind) or they have autism; in this case, Down Syndrome. Some do better than others in conveying the message that being different doesn’t mean you’re less capable. Superb is definitely about perceptions: people can be more than they appear.

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Review: Wonder Woman/Conan #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Conan has a childhood crush on Wonder Woman… that’s sadly all you need to know about this first issue of what is a decently large crossover. A crossover that I don’t particularly understand other than when you take a deeper look at Dark Horse’s dwindling amount of releases you can’t help but wonder if their crossovers are keeping them from sinking out of premiere status.

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Review: Kid Sherlock #4

By Justin McCarty

If you love Sherlock Holmes and his doctor/writer co-detective John Watson, here’s a book to get your kids introduced to these classic characters. It’s an all-ages book but it skews more very young reader than the older reader. We’ve made it four mysterious in and this one deals with the tripper. Sherlock and his dog Watson have to solve a new mystery and may just learn a little something along the way.

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Review: Sex Fantasy

By Dustin Cabeal

Here is something you don’t particularly want to say with a title like Sex Fantasy, it wasn’t what I thought it would be. Now, that makes me sound like a pervert, and I guess I’ll just wear that for a moment as I explain that I didn’t think this would be about sex at all. It sometimes wasn’t, but other times it was.

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Review: Head Lopper #7

By Justin McCarty

If you’re not on Head Lopper then you just don’t want to be part of the cool crowd. At this point, we’ve settled comfortably into what Mclean is doing here. Its light plot is driven with a lot of heart and humor. We know these characters. We want to see them grow and struggle. It’s such a clearly realized vision that this series has plenty of room to grow and go on for years. Once done, it will be a great example of how to do a fantasy comic.

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Review: Morning Star #1

By Patrick Wolf

Massimo Rosi’s Morning Star is a creepy paranormal thriller about the shaky divide between Hell and Earth. While there’s nothing cutting-edge here, this series is scary, well-drawn, and exciting enough to keep you coming back for more. I’d recommend Morning Star to any fan of the horror genre.

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Review: Batman: The Red Death #1

By Justin McCarty

The premise for this comic is pretty simple: Earth-52 Batman (Dark Knight Returns Batman) is fed up with his lack of progress with his war on crime. He has lost everyone he’s loved, and he’s had no success. He literally believes if he had the speed force he’d be able to do better. Batman spends the first half of the book fighting Flash for it. He rigs the cosmic treadmill to the Batmobile; his plan is to drive so fast he catches up to the speed force? It’s a superhero comic; I’ll let it go. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by saying he sort of gets what he wants. He and Flash merge, and Batman Red Death is born. This is an exceptionally dark take on Batman. He kills all the bad guys in his universe, then, after getting a little motivation from the Batman Who Laughs, he decides to take on Earth-0, where he goes full on evil.

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Comic Bastards Podcast - 013

By Dustin Cabeal

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013 - I'm prepared this week! At least more than last week. This time around on the ole Comic Bastards Podcast it's all first issues! There are so many first issues that I couldn't remember them all or be bothered to cover them. Thanks for listening and please subscribe on iTunes or Google Play with the links below!

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Valiant Announces Faith's Winter Wonderland Special

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Valiant is proud to announce FAITH’S WINTER WONDERLAND SPECIAL #1– a lavishly illustrated season's greeting featuring one of the beloved superheroes in comics today! On December 6th, bundle up as Eisner Award and Russ Manning Award-nominated artistic sensation Marguerite Sauvage (FAITH, DC Comics Bombshells) – one of the comic industry's fastest rising stars – takes the helm to write and illustrate the fanciful tale of Faith’s very first-holiday extravaganza!

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MIKE CAREY IS JOINED BY ARTIST KENAN YARAR TO BRING DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT'S BARBARELLA TO COMICS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 35-YEARS

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Timed to coincide with the celebration of legendary heroine Barbarella's 55th anniversary, Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce that the iconic character's first-ever American comic series, and first new comic series in more than 35 years, is now set to feature the critically-acclaimed artistic stylings of Turkish artist Kenan Yarar (Hilal). Yarar joins writer Mike Carey (X-Men, Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts), and longtime Barbarella brand custodian and consulting editor Jean-Marc Lofficier, on the revolutionary new series slated for release this December!

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New Liverpool based indie comic publishing house to launch at Thought Bubble

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2017, Liverpool: Cog Life Comics wages war against the mundane world, as they launch their first comic, Isolation, at this years Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival on 23rd September.