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Review: Comics #5 - WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP is a comic that tries to straddle the line between autobiographical rumination on a formative experience and an actual history of that most hipster of sitcoms, WKRP in Cincinnati. What it achieves is a little bit less than an interesting version of either.

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Sasuke and Naruto: Eternal Rivals

Sure, the title of “eternal rivals” rightfully belongs to the ever-adorable and kick-ass pair of Gai and Kakashi. But Naruto 698—the climax of the final fight between Sasuke and Naruto—put a finishing touch on the central relationship of the series not just with an absolutely unforgettable final panel, but with the revelation that Sasuke is just as in awe of Naruto as the rest of us.

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Review: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Charles B. Pierce was an ambitious man. Not content to merely help in the making of films as a set director Pierce also wanted to produce and direct. And although his films were sometimes successful they also suffered from many of the constant curses of local independent films: bad acting, lack of direction, and random voice overs. All of these curses are in evidence in Pierce’s 1977 drive-in back ground noise The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

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Review: Savage Dragon #199

For the last couple months, I have seen posts both on Twitter and Facebook from writer/artist extraordinaire Erik Larsen regarding an experiment that he was doing with his Savage Dragon comic. In the experiment, Larsen was planning to have an entire issue of nothing but two page spreads. It sounded kind of interesting to be sure. But would it work?

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Review: Purgatori #2

Well this issue is slightly better than the first issue. Thankfully there’s not attempted rape scene in this issue, but I would be lying if I said that I didn’t have a sour taste in my mouth from the first issue. There is a pretty big problem with this issue though… it’s boring. Yeah nothing really happens other than more of the same from the last issue and exposition. Lots of exposition.

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Review: Doodle Jump #4

Before I read Doodle Jump, I assumed it was aimed for very young children. Having read all four issues currently released, I can’t really imagine a child of any age reading this comic. Maybe if it were the waiting room of the dentist’s office and all the Highlights magazines were taken, but only then.

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Review: Low #4

Low #4 still has the scattered feeling of the first three issues, but it’s starting to show its hand; you can start to see where the threads are that are going to converge, and Remender will pluck them and the whole thing will fall into place. It makes for my favorite issue of this series to date, but still not quite one that I feel confident in.

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Review: Sex #17

Sex has been writer Joe Casey and artist Piotr Kowalski’s little voyeuristic romp into the world of the the good guys versus the bad guys and their more, um, private details that you don’t see in other day to day comics. On the surface, Sex may appear like some simple dirty book that likes to portray people naked and engaged in slippery embrace.

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Review: Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor #4

Well now we’re cooking! I wish there had been an episode like this issue during Matt Smith’s run of Doctor Who. Al Ewing really understands the Eleventh Doctor’s personality and he uses Alice’s character to illustrate that. Speaking of Alice, what an interesting character!

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Review: The Massive #28

We’re officially in the back half of the last arc of The Massive, and I’m not ready to let go. I know I’ll have to, come December, but I will not go gently into that good night. Until then, let’s talk about the third-to-last issue.

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