Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17

Review: Blackhand Ironhead #1

By Dustin Cabeal

As anyone that reads comics knows, Panel Syndicate is a “Pay What You Want” platform from Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin. They’ve done two series themselves, a one-shot and added another creator to their lineup. The platform has worked for them, though I have no idea how well it worked for the series that wasn’t by them.

Daniel Vlasaty 4/26/17 Daniel Vlasaty 4/26/17

Review: Street Angel: After School Kung Fu Special

By Daniel Vlasaty

When I was in eighth grade I “dated” a girl named Katie. While I was reading Street Angel: After School Kung Fu Special the first thing I thought about was Katie. Which is kind of weird, considering I haven’t thought about her in like 17 years. The reason I thought about her was because she reminded me a lot of the main character, Jesse Sanchez, minus all the kung fu. Although Katie did get into a lot of fights that year we “dated.” Like Jesse Sanchez, Katie was a bad girl. And I don’t mean like “oh, damn, she bad.” I mean like she was just straight up bad. Criminal bad. Like, I remember one time this other girl looked at her wrong, I guess, and Katie threw a chair at her, right in the middle of class. It was funny at the time, but now looking back it was kind of just crazy, really. Or the time she threw a sandwich at the back of Mr. Boswell’s head in the lunchroom. Anyway, I had no idea what to expect when I started reading this book, and here I am now thinking about a girl I “dated” when I was like 14 that I now realize I was really just afraid of. I don’t know, I feel kind of weird now. Thanks Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca.

Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17

Review: Night Owl Society #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Well, I’ll say this about Night Owl Society, it’s extremely different from the vast majority of titles that IDW publishes. It also seems like their stab at getting their own Breakfast Club-esc story that’s primed and ready for the CW. Also, just because it’s different from what they usually publish, doesn’t mean it’s instantly better.

Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17

Review: Black Clover vol. 6

By Dustin Cabeal

Well, I’ve put off reviewing this for far too long, and some of my initial excitement has been lost to time, which is a shame because whatever I would have originally written would have been filled with joy. Probably for the best, but I will say that if I were going to do a wrestling chant for this volume, it would be “Holy Shit, Holy Shit, Holy Shit” and so on and so on until my voice gave out.

Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17

Review: Spider Man 1,000 Dot-to-Dot Book

By Dustin Cabeal

Unlike my regular reviews, I've decided to do this one as a video since it's the best way to cover something like a dot-to-dot aka, heavy on the visuals. After introducing the book, I tried out a time lapse video, and I will fully admit that you stare at the back of my head for far too much of it in the beginning. I underestimated the camera placement and just how on top of the paper I would need to be to see the small numbers. It gets better about half way through and don't worry it's not that long. The ending is just a reveal of the page I completed and my final thoughts on the product. I'm not going to score it because it seems silly when this is really a product you'll be interested in or you won't.

Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/25/17

Review: Real Friends

By Dustin Cabeal

Real Friends is probably the best title you can come up for this story, but unfortunately, it has very little to do with real friends. Maybe more in line with finding real friends or even figuring out who to spot real friends, but then you’d never be able to find the title for the story. My point is, don’t think that you’re going to read a happy story about “real friends” finding each other and going on great adventures. Not that this story isn’t happy, but it’s a lot like life in that everything comes in waves.

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Preview: Bloodshot Salvation #1

Valiant is proud to present your first look inside BLOODSHOT SALVATION #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of the BLOCKBUSTER NEW ONGOING SERIES from New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (BLOODSHOT REBORN, Moon Knight) and extraordinary artists Lewis LaRosa (BLOODSHOT REBORN, SAVAGE) & Mico Suayan (BLOODSHOT REBORN)! On September 27th, to protect his true love and newborn daughter from the forces that made him a walking weapon, Valiant’s machine-made soldier will be forced to run his most dangerous mission yet…and begin a harrowing gauntlet of revenge and bloodshed that will forever redefine the course of Bloodshot’s present and future…

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Dark Horse Announces "The Dark North"

Dark Horse and Charles Wood Publishing AB are excited to terrify more readers with The Dark North! Originally crowdfunded for publication in 2016, this illustrated prose-art book fusion features five unique tales ranging from Norse mythology to apocalyptic science fiction to fantasy.