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Review: Plastic #5

By Jonathan Edwards

Y'know as much as I've loved every issue of Plastic, I'm glad it's ending here at #5. A big part of what makes this book so damn engrossing is the uniquely skewed perspectives of Edwyn and the narrative itself. As such, one of the biggest problems we could encounter as readers would be getting used to those perspectives. So, ending it before that has a chance to happen is the way to go. That being said, is the ending actually any good? Is it a predictable conclusion? Or, does it do something unexpected yet inevitable? Well to be honest, the answer to all three of those questions is "yes." At first, I was almost a little disappointed in how quickly and even perhaps uneventfully things seemed to be wrapping up. And then, right before the end, something happened. It's simultaneously the type of thing I never expected for a second that this book would do and the final defining reinforcement of who Edwyn really is. But, that's all I'm going to say about it. Because, there's no way I'm going to even come close to spoiling that moment.

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Review: Sunburning

By Dustin Cabeal

Personally, I find autobiographical comics, even the ones that are just loosely based, to be one of the bravest comics to create. The fully autobiographical stories obviously get a lot more credits for bravery.

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Review: War-Mother #1

By Dustin Cabeal

War-Mother... is just a weird combination of words to say together. Also, and I know this is shitty to bag on first, but that Mack cover isn’t good. The image is fine, but the font and everything else is at this point dated. The dude’s artwork hasn’t evolved, and so seeing this cover was like seeing a left over Daredevil cover from the heydays of Marvel’s rebound in comics.

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Review: Moonhead and the Music Machine

By Dustin Cabeal

I had some reluctance before picking up Moonhead and the Music Machine. The thing is, I will check out any comic that has some kind of connection to music. Lately, though, there’s been an incredible dry spell for comics and music. I would have to go back to last year to find something good. Apparently good things come in twos with comics because I found not one, but two music-themed comics that were great this week.

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Review: 7th Garden vol. 6

By Dustin Cabeal

I had decided not to review the fifth volume. Hell, I wasn’t even going to read it until I started this volume and saw that there was a character death in the previous volume. It made me think for just a moment that something of importance actually happened.

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Review: The Naughty List

By Dustin Cabeal

If there’s one thing most comic readers don’t know about me from reading my reviews, it’s that I love Christmas. No, I’m not, so cliché to follow-up with saying that it’s my favorite time of year, but it is a time in which I love to see the transformation of humanity. In particular, I love things involving Santa Claus and often worry that the lore will be extinct in my lifetime.

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Review: Celebrating Snoopy

By Dustin Cabeal

Before I read comic books, I read comic strips. To this day I have no idea why the two are considered to be so different to people, to me, they’re both comics. When the “death of print” started and everyone proclaimed newspapers to be on the demise I was mortified. Not because of how many reporters would lose their jobs or how’d we get our weekly ads, but instead because of the comic section. At my house, we had a subscription to the Denver Post just for the comics. I wish that were an exaggeration but my father has never read any other section of the paper and while my mother dabbles, it’s very telling when you start in the comics section and then see what else you paid for, it’s just how we are. The charm of comic strips to me is that it’s daily. Getting just a tiny bit every day of the series you enjoy will always be better than a monthly comic.

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Review: Nightwing: The New Order #1

By Dustin Cabeal

If DC had a slogan right now, it would be DC: Bold As Fuck. Seriously, they’re just trying whatever which sounds like a dreadful thing, but it’s not. It’s what the industry has always done, but at some point, the big two were like, Nah, continuity, it’s all about what’s happening in the world. Screw that; I want what ifs and alternate timelines in which Nightwing is a total dick, pun intended. And I don’t need it to be part of the multiverse, just fun comics starring familiar characters for a few months is nice and refreshing.

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Review: Clueless: Senior Year

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ll save you from the boring “I love Clueless” to speech and just jump right into the question I asked myself the entire time I read the new graphic novel from BOOM! Box/BOOM! Studios…

“Who is this for?”

After reading the entire thing, I can confidently say… I'm clueless, and I wish that were an intended pun, but it’s just the truth.

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