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Review: Echoes

By Dustin Cabeal

I honestly didn’t expect much from Echoes. I got the gist of the story quickly, and it’s somewhat predictable in its execution and outcome, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying the story. Let’s tackle that cover because I’m sure some of you are curious as to what type of story this is based on that cover alone. It is a story about abuse, but it doesn’t glorify it or show it outside of one pinnacle scene. In this day and age of comics, I feel that it’s important to point this out first because I would hate for people just to pass on this book because of the interrupted subject matter coming from the cover.

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Review: Motro #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Being a fan of Gamma, I was instantly interested in Motro from Ulises Fariñas. It has that distinct style that made Gamma funny and amazing. Motro differs in that its a dark comedy in a somber and dystopian world.

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Review: Double Take Comics: Fire Vol. 1 (All Ten)

By Dustin Cabeal

That title is probably confusing so let me clarify and tell you that this covers the first ten trades for all of Double Takes titles including Rise, Slab, Soul, Spring, Medic, Honor, Dedication, Home, Remote, Z-Men. I had hoped to review them all separately, but alas, I didn’t find enough to say about any one of them that I haven’t already said in my five individual reviews for each title. I’m sorry, but this reviewer can’t force himself to rewrite the same thing over and over. Instead, I will give you a list of links at the bottom for each individual review for you to enjoy.

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Seven Seas Licenses Don't Meddle With My Daughter Manga

By Dustin Cabeal

Having given up on American superhero comics, I find that I'm really drawn to Japanese superhero comics. Things like ne-Punch Man, My Hero Academia and now on't Meddle With My Daughter have caught my attention because they take something very American and make it work in the Japanese storytelling way. Wish America would try to do the same, but we're still too focused on the tired tradition of superhero stories. At any rate, I'm interested in this, if only for the reason that it looks a little like Wonder Woman's costume. That and the hilarious translation problem on this temp cover that say "in my daughter" instead of "with my daughter." I have a feeling that won't make it over here.

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Zenescope Reveals New Grimm Fairy Tales Series

By Dustin Cabeal

I was curious what Zenescope would do after ending their longest running titles and truly one of the longest running small press monthly titles as well. The answer it seems is, give Sela a daughter and go back to their roots. Which isn't bad. I'm kind of for it actually because I think shared universes in comics have become a pain. Everyone wants one, but even the big two are struggling to make people care about all aspects of the universe. I'm glad to see at least one publisher return to making stories that are self-contained rather than a part of a whole. We'll see how that story actually turns out though because Joe Brusha is writing it and while he's been better lately, he still has plenty of room for improvement.

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Preview: Grave Lillies from Z2 Comics

By Dustin Cabeal

Hey, Grave Lillies is a comic written by Cullen Bunn and illustrated by George Kambadais. The final order for retailers is today so if you're going to pre-order it with your local shop (which is how this industry works and stays alive) then you should do that today. Here's a preview to entice you. Personally, I want to read the crap out of this book and hope I'll get an early look at it.

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HERETICS - An Exhibition of Folk-Horror Art

By Dustin Cabeal

Next week if you're in the Leeds area of the U.K. (Did that sound like I knew where that was? I don't, but God I wish I did), then you should check out P M Buchan's HERETICS art exhibition. As the headline already told you, it's folk-horror art, and just the fact that something like that exists is worth celebrating. Seriously, though, I wish I could go, but considering I can even use the cliche of "across the pond" to describe the distance from me to Leeds (please sound convincing), I won't be able to attend. I will say that P M Buchan is bad ass and I dig anything he's put together so show some support and check it out if you can. If you can't, you better have the exact distance in meters, of why you can't attend... or work I guess.

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Review: Platinum End vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

The creators of Death Note are back with a new series… Platinum End. Honestly, you’re better off not knowing that, but since it’s on the back cover and all over the internet/marketing, you won’t escape it, least of all now.

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Review: Occultic;Nine E.02

By Dustin Cabeal

Convoluted doesn’t begin to describe this show. Maybe if convoluted had a baby with a film student that just watched everything by David Lynch, then maybe we’d have an accurate description of just how terrible this show and episode are.

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