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Review: Scales & Scoundrels #1

By Dustin Cabeal

I fell in love with this comic hard at first, though I was left with some reservations about it in the end. Even still, Scales & Scoundrels does a wonderful job of creating a fantasy world that you would want to visit. Anymore in comics, the fantasy worlds are dark and terrifying. Who the hell wants to visit a fantasy world like that? Sure, if you’re the goddamn chosen one you might have fun, but one of the great things about fantasy literature is the amazing worlds they create. In a lot of ways, Scales & Scoundrels reminded me of Spera, which is a fantasy world with dangers and politics, but still one that would be fun to experience.

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Review: Injustice 2 #9

By Ashley Gibbs

After nine issues of this series, I’m coming to the point where I’m getting bored. While I’ve liked every issue and this one is no different, the pacing is slow, and this is the second issue where not much happens. While I enjoy a good story, world-building and learning about character motivations when I read a superhero comic I want more action than talking. There have been a few issues like this, and for the most part, I enjoyed the story enough to look past the slow pacing, but Injustice 2 #9 made me realize how slowly everything is going, taking pages to move the chess pieces to where they need to be. Our heroes are finally on their way to confront Ra’s Al Ghul, but not in this issue and probably not for another two issues at that.

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Review: Kingsman: The Red Diamond #1

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ve never been a fan of Kingsman aka Secret Service, but with this being a new series and rebranded to be more in line with the movies, well I figured I’d give it a shot. It’s not shocking, but interesting that Mark Millar rebranded the comic to match the movie. Kingsman is a much better title after all. Still, it’s just weird to see a movie affect a comic these days.

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Review: Gasolina #1

By Daniel Vlasaty

Like with most other new books I went into Gasolina #1 not knowing anything about it. I like doing it this way. I don’t want to know too much about a story before I’m in that story. I don’t read preview pages when they’re released months before a books actual release date for this reason.

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Review: Made Men #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Hmmm.

As I’ve been saying a lot lately, I don’t read solicits, so I actually read Made Men without knowing what the book was about at all. That’s the thing about solicits, they always give you the hook, and the hook for this series is easy to tell you. I won’t though because if you don’t know what it’s about it’ll be far more interesting to see your reaction at the end of it.

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Review: Saltwater

By Oliver Gerlach

Rick Quinn and Dana Obera’s Saltwater is an interesting issue that deserves to be noticed. It’s the story of a city split in two, with a beautiful upper half and a rusting submarine half filled with slave labour keeping the rest of it running. If that’s at all interesting to you as a premise, you might want to check this one out. It’s a very slick, visually striking work from a creative team that could well go far together.

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Review: Dalston Monsterzz

By Dustin Cabeal

Ever just look at a cover and know that you’re going to love the hell out of something? Sure there are the occasional misses, but there was just something about the cover and art style of Dalston Monsterzz that just spoke to me. It hit all the right buttons and made my mouth water. Thankfully the story was equally as great because that would have been a letdown.

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Review: Beautiful Canvas #3

By Ben Snyder

As Beautiful Canvas continually unfurls, the chaotic super powered world and the people who inhabit are revealed as well. Once again we are left with little definitive answers regarding any major characters, but inexplicably Beautiful Canvas #3 does a better job than the prior issue in handling the chaos.

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Review: Fruit Ninja #1

By Dustin Cabeal

I have to assume this is based on a show or something. It’s clearly not based just off the game in which you use your finger to swipe across the screen and cut fruit in half while attempting to get a high score and not hit any bombs and shit. I wanted to read it because it looked like dumb fun, it ended up only being one of those things and it’s the former, not the latter.

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Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire #1

By Justin McCarty

From Titan Comics’ and Hard Case Crime we have the English translation of the most recent comic adaptation for the Millennium Series novels written by Stieg Larsson. This adaptation was written by Sylvain Runberg with art by Manuel Carot Gonzalez. It’s a sequel to The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo published earlier this year, which finishes up this October. With another novel in the series due out this month, Titan may have seen an opportunity to do an English translation of the acclaimed French comics adaptation. 

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