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Review: The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage #3

This mini-series just continues to be more and more poetic. Seriously the afterlife that Jen Van Metter and Valiant have come up with is just incredible. At times it’s intriguing and magical; other times its average and common looking, but then the rest of the time it’s scary. It’s frightening really and yet our main character is so far gone from her own life that she’s willing to throw it all away to find her husband.

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Review: The Evil Within #2

After a decent start that reminded me a lot IDW’s old Silent Hill comic books, The Evil Within takes an unfortunate turn. It’s not a bad issue, but it is pretty much everything you’d expect to happen after the first issue. There are some intense scenes, but a lot of the, “holy shit what’s going on?” has been lost.

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Review: The Woods #7

By now it should be obvious as to what’s happening in the latest arc of The Woods, in which writer James Tynion and artist Michael Dialynas are taking individual characters and looking at who they were before arriving on the alien moon. In doing so they change the character before our eyes and it’s such a great storytelling device.

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Review: The Mercenary Sea #7

Even after a short break the best thing about The Mercenary Sea is that it’s consistent. It returns as if it never left and really moves the story into new territory. At the end of the last arc our Captain Jack was given a gift that may have turned out to be a the key to finding Koji Ra. Koji Ra being the mythical island that he’s collected stories on. The issue actually walks us through them and we get the sense of just how dedicated Jack is to finding this island and the supposed payday it would offer.

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Review: Alien Vs. Predator: Fire and Stone #2

Elden stalk Francis as the warring Predators and Xenomorphs battle. With the Engineer’s enhancement making him the new alpha species, Elden dispatches all those that stand before him. As someone equipped with a mouth load of teeth that can project from his stomach, Elden does not have much of a match.

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Review: Kinski

For a book with a picture of an adorable black lab puppy on the cover, Kinski is not the happy-go-lucky dog-meets-boy adventure I feared it would be. Instead of a Marley and Me style adventure where a stray dog melts a young businessman’s wretched heart to slag, we get a tense, almost surreal in its stakes, crime story about one of the biggest shlubs on the planet and the dog who loves him anyway.

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Review: The New York Four

The New York Four is New York City through and through. I was roped in immediately by Kelly's amazing ability to capture that wonderfully soul-crushing city on the page, and Wood's uncanny knack for developing characters in an environment that is filled with both relentless hope and unending challenges. If you're a sucker for that city like I am, you'll be a sucker for this book.

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Review: Spread #4

In reading and reviewing issue four of Justin Jordan and Kyle Stahm’s Spread, I can’t help but feel a bit disconcerted; not least because it features a crazy bald lady vividly ripping someone’s throat out, or because a group of characters explode in a tentacular spectacular. Don’t get me wrong, though, those are certainly disconcerting elements.

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Review: Chew #44

Okay… wow. Honestly, that’s probably all I should say about this issue since to say anything about what happens within its pages would be a spoiler. That’s right, every page is important to the story and frankly the landscape of the Chew universe will be completely different after this issue. Fuck, I feel like even saying that is a spoiler.

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