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Review: Diablo House #1

By Ben Snyder

Welcome to Diablo House, where morality-themed knock-offs of Twilight Zone stories get told. Calling them knockoffs can sound negative, and while not all bad, Diablo House #1 doesn’t instill much hope for the future of this horror anthology series.

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Review: Extremity #5

By Patrick Wolf

Ever wanted something so bad, you’ll do anything for it?—even if it means you’ll feel guilty as hell? I know this happens to me every week whenever I buy a bunch of overpriced Magic the Gathering cards. At first, I want them so bad; I’m like: “Who cares? They’re totally worth it man.” But then I buy them and realize they weren’t worth it. I’m just a moron. Well, something like this happens in this month’s installment of Extremity—just ten-times worse. How far would you go to get revenge? And is it worth the price of your soul?

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Review: Mania #1 & 2

By Wes Jones

What if ADHD was the reason Quicksilver is so fast or dissociative identity disorder was the cause of Mystique’s shape-shifting abilities? MANIA presents us with a future where mentally ill tech mutants called ‘supermanics’ are the result of futuristic cybernetic tinkering. It’s 2052 in the completely automated city of New Renard, and all citizens are provided with a neural implant called the ARC. When the ARC is implanted into people with normal brain chemistry, it works as a sort of personal assistant with a HUD — think a fully-realized Microsoft HoloLens. Those with mental health issues, however, may cause the ARCs to malfunction and they end up with superpowers because comic books.

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Review: Supernatural Agents #1

By Patrick Wolf

Have you ever seen one of those cheap, Chinese knockoffs? What’s interesting about these products is how they’re so similar and yet so different from the real thing. We can almost always identify a counterfeit Spiderman toy, and yet we can’t help but marvel at how similar it is to the genuine article. I think part of the reason for this phenomenon is that the Chinese knockoff isn’t a straightforward copy: it’s just so generic it feels like a duplicate. Jim Hachey’s Supernatural Agents #1 has a similar feel. While it’s not a direct rip-off, the artwork, story, and characters are so imitative; you’ll get that same feeling you experience whenever you see a counterfeit: it looks like the real thing, but it’s just too generic to be it.

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Review: Enmusubi no Youko-chan E.01

By Shanel Kamara

Okay so with the start of the release of the summer line-up shows, I decided this week to opt for one of the new series as opposed to my usual. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a selection to choose from (as I usually watch the show on a Saturday afternoon and write the review on a Sunday morning) so I ended up watching the Japanese adaption of the popular Chinese work Huyao Xiao Hongniang (in English known as Fox Spirit Matchmaker and in Japanese Enmusubi no Youko-chan). Frankly, I didn’t intend on watching and reviewing this show; originally, my plan was to review the fourteenth episode of the second season of Boku no Hero Academia but for some inexplicable reason, or maybe not so inexplicable, no episode aired this week due to the fact that the first arc of the season has ended.

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Scout Comics Announces Santa vs Dracula

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This week, Scout is proud to announce SANTA VS DRACULA by screenwriter and syndicated writer Ed Power, and Melissa DeJesus, syndicated comic strip artist and animation artist for the movie Super Troopers. SANTA VS DRACULA is an original graphic novel hitting comic book stores this October, just in time for Halloween (and Christmas, of course)!!!  

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More New Titles From Kadokawa

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KADOKAWA CORPORATION, the Japanese publisher & anime company, known for hits as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star, or recent titles like KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, has announced new titles at Anime Expo 2017 (July 1-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center). Along with the announcement, promotional trailers were shown for the first time in the world.

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Kadokawa New Title Announcements -- Girls’ Last Tour and A Place Further Than The Universe

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KADOKAWA CORPORATION, the Japanese publisher & anime company, known for hits as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star, or recent titles like KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, has announced 2 new titles at Anime Expo 2017 (July 1-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center). Along with the announcement, promotional trailers were shown for the first time in the world.

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Review: In This Corner of the World

By Dustin Cabeal

Animated movies from Japan tend to be amazing from a story and film perspective. Not because I’m biased, while I do love animated films in general, I will always prefer 2-D animation. No, the real reason is that it is 2-D animation and the bulk of the world has moved on from caring about the art form. It’s a shame, but because of that stories like In This Corner of the World aren’t held to the same storytelling restraints that most films are nor are they pigeonholed into tropes like anime. Simply put, Is This Corner of the World only works in this format because it’s allowed to create a new storytelling narrative that doesn’t rely on the three-act structure or any other structure that you’d associate with Japan.

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