Remember When TV and Movies Advertised In Comics? Well, Flip It
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Remember When TV and Movies Advertised In Comics? Well, Flip It

By Dustin Cabeal

Marvel doesn't do ads because they don't want to "ruin the reading experience", at least that's what they say. It's just weird to me that a comic book company is going to spend advertising money for TV and Movies. Movies I can understand, and I guess paired with their one and only TV show, I can understand. But overall, it just classically shows that they don't know what fucking audience or demographic to chase with their books. Be honest, do you buy Marvel? Or do you download Marvel? There always seems to be a large discrepancy between sales and people talking about comics, but whatever. I don't read or download Marvel. 

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Inclusive Press Announces Black Queer Romance Graphic Novella "Bingo Love"
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Inclusive Press Announces Black Queer Romance Graphic Novella "Bingo Love"

An encounter in a church bingo hall in 1963 begins the lifelong romance in Bingo Love, a graphic novel by writer Tee “Vixen” Franklin (Love is Love), artist Jenn St-Onge (Jem and The Misfits), colorist Joy San (Rumble for Toronto Comix), and letterer Cardinal Rae (DC, Image, Papercutz), to be introduced in a Kickstarter campaign launching March 15th, 2017. Franklin, whose writing credits include stories in NailbiterLove Is Love, and Elements, as well as the creator of #BlackComicsMonth, will be self-publishing her first full-length comic through her own company, Inclusive Press. 

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Roberts & Portela Chronicle RAI: THE HISTORY OF THE VALIANT UNIVERSE #1
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Roberts & Portela Chronicle RAI: THE HISTORY OF THE VALIANT UNIVERSE #1

Valiant is proud to announce RAI: THE HISTORY OF THE VALIANT UNIVERSE #1 – an astonishing standalone tale revealing the saga behind Valiant’s greatest heroes and villains from prehistory to the 41st century! On June 14th, traverse the long and storied history behind the rise of Earth’s most formidable heroes with multiple Harvey Award nominee Rafer Roberts (Harbinger Renegade) and acclaimed artist Francis Portela (Faith) as they present a stunning overview of Valiant’s centuries-spanning universe. Inspired by the original, legendary RAI #0, this self-contained one-shot special is the ultimate introduction to the historic moments that will forever define the Valiant Universe…past, present, and future!

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Trailer Time: All Time Comics
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Trailer Time: All Time Comics

Acclaimed commercial, film, and music video director and photographer Samuel Bayer, who launched his career 25 years ago with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, released a live action trailer based on ALL TIME COMICS, a comic book superhero universe he created with his brother, indie comic book creator Josh Bayer. The trailer stars LaMonica Garrett (DESIGNATED SURVIVOR, SONS OF ANARCHY) as Crime Destroyer and model Denise Schaefer (who has appeared in campaigns for GUESS and Marciano, and graced the cover of ELLE Mexico) as Bullwhip. The cast also includes actress and cosplay enthusiast Maitland Ward (BOY MEETS WORLD).

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IDW Games To Make Board Games Based Off Atari Video Games... Because Money
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IDW Games To Make Board Games Based Off Atari Video Games... Because Money

Atari®, one of the world's most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, and IDW Games, announced today that they have entered into a partnership to produce a line of tabletop games based on several classic Atari videogame titles. Centipede®Asteroids®, and Missile Command® are all headed to the tabletop by way of Jon Gilmour, co-designer of Dead of Winter, and his hand-picked crew of up-and-coming co-developers.

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Review: Motor Crush #4
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Review: Motor Crush #4

By: Levi Remington

The penultimate issue in Motor Crush's first arc sees Domino struggling to make sense of recent revelations. She is closer than ever to discovering more about her past, but not without repercussions. The further she plunges down this mysterious rabbit hole, the more isolated she becomes. 

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Review: Red Line #1
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Review: Red Line #1

By Daniel Vlasaty

When I heard that one of the dudes behind shows like Archer and Sealab 2021 was writing a comic book I was super pumped. I said to myself that this thing had to be the book. That it would be fun and hilarious and well, basically, like reading a comic book version of one of those shows. I can see that here, kind of. I can feel it in the book, at least of the periphery. But sadly, I also could feel that something was missing. I’m not sure what it is, but whatever it is the book just never clicked for me.

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Review: Planetoid: Praxis #2
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Review: Planetoid: Praxis #2

By Dustin Cabeal

I had a lot of praise for the first issue of Ken Garing’s follow up to Planetoid. The second issue of Praxis isn’t nearly as strong and left me wondering what exactly the issue was trying to accomplish. The story jumps forward eight years into the future and once again we’re along for the ride as the story establishes the lay of the land.

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Review: Cannibal vol. 1
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Review: Cannibal vol. 1

By Jonathan Edwards

Fun fact: I wrote a sample review for the first issue of Cannibal as part of my submission back when I first applied to be a reviewer for Comic Bastards. My main reason for doing so was that, while I'm normally not a huge fan of zombie media (partially due to the oversaturation and subsequent plurality of content using the premise merely as a gimmick), this was ostensibly a zombie comic that I ended up liking for its particular approach and twist on the scenario. And, I hadn't even been planning to read it. The only reason I did pick it up the week it came out was because  I saw it next to the other couple Image books I had intended to buy. It was one of those impulse buys that I'm glad I made, and I figured that might lead to some sort of interesting review. Since then, I've kept reading the series, so when I saw the first trade up for review, I thought I'd go ahead and throw in my two cents on it.

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Review: Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #1
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Review: Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #1

By Chris Tresson

've been lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #1, which is out this May from Titan Comics. The series is being written by Andi Ewington (who's work I like to follow), drawn by Simon Coleby, colored by Len O’Grady and lettered by Jim Campbell.

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Review: Weekly Shonen Jump no. 14
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Review: Weekly Shonen Jump no. 14

By Dustin Cabeal

Welcome to my two-day late review of Weekly Shonen Jump. I am trying to get this review up and done on Monday’s when it actually releases, but so far that hasn’t happened. Well if you’re unfamiliar with how I write this review, check out previous issues or just jump in, you’ll figure it out.

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Review: Grass Kings #1
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Review: Grass Kings #1

By Daniel Vlasaty

The Grass Kingdom isn’t a place you want to go, unless you’re given permission to be there. The Grass Kingdom is a small, isolated community. They don’t tolerate trespassers or tourists or outsiders of any kind. The people of the Grass Kingdom live off the grid and they set their own laws. It’s a place where “everyone has a say,” even though that usually turns out to be the opposite in places like this. Places like this are set up to look like they’re equal, but mostly that means there’s some ruthless dictator (or self-appointed “king”) who’s actually calling the shots. Usually, places like this never turn out good.

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Review: My Monster Boyfriend
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Review: My Monster Boyfriend

By Justin Wood

As a select few of you may remember, I haven't had the best of luck with anthologies as a critic on this site. Often produced cheaply with freely obtained content from enthusiastic artists who see the unpaid labor as simply being 'part of the hustle.' Frequently your indie anthology is a disposably printed black and white magazine packed in with not-quite-there art and cliché choked flashbang stories by writers not yet sophisticated enough to be compelling in a compressed storytelling space.

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Oversized Review: Justice League of America #2 & Justice League/Power Rangers #3
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Oversized Review: Justice League of America #2 & Justice League/Power Rangers #3

By Jonathan Edwards

I decided to try out something a little different this week. Justice League of America and Justice League/Power Rangers are both books I've technically been reviewing since January. Back then, my receptions of the two series were fairly contrasting, with the JLA one-shots starting on the stronger side and JL/PR being crap. However, after the successive drops in quality that were Justice League of America: Rebirth #1 and Justice League of America #1, Steve Orlando's team up series is more or less on par with DC and Boom!'s mediocre crossover (not to be confused with Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern, their outright awful crossover). And, since both of these "Justice League" books also portray Batman as making bad decisions and dimension hopping antagonists, I might as well try something a bit different with them. That is, smash them together to review at the same time.

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Review: Deathstroke #14
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Review: Deathstroke #14

By Dustin Cabeal

This fucking book. I say that in the nicest possible way. If you had asked me two or even five years ago, if Deathstroke would ever be this good, I would have laughed and probably said something about DC not having the balls to make a good Deathstroke title. Well apparently, someone has the balls or ovaries, I don’t pay attention to who edits this book.

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Review: Red Dog #3
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Review: Red Dog #3

By Chris Tresson

Sometimes, a series just hits with you and you end up loving it when you weren’t really sure whether or not it was going to be any good in the first place… It’s happened to me with Rob Cohen’s Red Dog from 451 Media. I’ve been giving this series top marks so far and now we’re halfway through the series with this issue, so if there’s a time it should go wrong, it’ll be this issue. 

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Review: Infinite 7 #2
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Review: Infinite 7 #2

By Dustin Cabeal

More of the world is explained in the second issue of Infinite 7, but I have the feeling we’re still going to be learning about this work for at least another issue. The story jumps ahead from the shocking cliffhanger of the first issue. To put it plainly, our main character Anthony is the new Smash Brannagan having killed the previous one.

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