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Review: Master Keaton vol. 9

By Dustin Cabeal

I’m often sent comics and manga (in particular) well into a story’s run. It’s not something that scares me off, but that doesn’t mean I’m always able to or have the desire to review something that’s well established. I thought that would be the case with Master Keaton.

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Review: SP4RX

By Dustin Cabeal

Wren McDonald’s SP4RX is pretty damn cool. I wish I had gotten to it sooner considering it was sent to me early, but I was traveling and every time I opened it my young son thought it was a book for him. None of that is the main reason it took so long. No, the main reason was the news broadcast bubbles on the first page. I’m serious, that’s the main reason.

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Image Reprints "Splitting Image" For Anniversary

By Dustin Cabeal

It's really strange to me that Image is acting like any other company on their anniversary and just going for the cash. Variant covers. Reprints. Next they'll have chrome photo trading cards of the founders and a blooper reel. This reprint isn't that offensive, personally I don't even care, it just makes me scratch my head at Image comics and wonder how seriously we can take the publishers next big blast of the industry.

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Review: The Rook: Desperate Times

By Dustin Cabeal

The Rook: Desperate Times is inoffensive time travel. It’s a bit like all time traveling stories following a lone man saving time in that it’s entertaining, but lacking anything new. I’m going to paraphrase a quote from the creators of South Park when they were talking about The Simpsons at one point, and they said, “The Simpsons have done everything, so of course anything we do is going to be a bit like The Simpsons.” The idea is that when something compared to something that’s been around longer that there’s going to be some overlap. There’s only so many stories to tell after all. I say that because of course, this feels a lot like Doctor Who and even a large dash of Quantum Leap. That doesn’t necessarily make The Rook bad, but yes it’s a far cry from an original concept.

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Dynamite Teases Something - Day 1

By Dustin Cabeal

Sigh... seriously comic industry. Ya gotta come up with better marketing. Don't, I repeat, don't take a page out of Marvel's marketing book because that's the worst one to copy. I'll admit, my heart skipped a beat reading the words "All thing end...", but probably not for the right reason. I was thinking Dynamite was getting bought or some shit, but instead... comic event. Yay, just what we need, another publisher doing a comic event... during the summer. See ya tomorrow for the next teaser.

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The Old Guard from Rucka and Fernandez

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Eisner-winning writer Greg Rucka (LAZARUS, BLACK MAGICK, Wonder Woman) and critically acclaimed artist Leandro Fernandez (THE DISCIPLINE, Deadpool, Punisher: MAX) join forces for the all-new, action-packed, era-spanning series THE OLD GUARD, set to launch this February 2017. 

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Review: Slayer: Repentless #1

By Chris Tresson

Musicians and bands having their own comic books is nothing new in this industry. Bands having good comics, though? That's quite rare (see the latest KISS comic series. It's dog shit.) This one... I had a good feeling about this one.

I’m about to review the first issue of Slayer: Repentless, a three issue mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics. It’s a series based around the videos of thrash metal gods Slayer which were directed by BJ McDonnell, for songs from the album of the same name.

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Review: Little Tulip

By Justin Wood

Earlier this year, I took to opportunity to see Martin Scorsese's Silence before it hit its wide release. The film, about a priest secretly infiltrating the Christian-persecuting country of Tokugawa-era Japan and enduring unfathomable torment and hardship for his choice, is, to say the least, an endurance test of misery, a beautiful film but a grueling experience. Dover Comic's new release Little Tulip, is similarly a grueling experience. 

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