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Review: Detropia #1
By Dustin Cabeal
Reviews like this one are the hardest. No one wants to write a bad review for something, and when you’re a site that’s willing to cover indie comics, it’s even harder. You want to see the little guys succeed, but if there’s one thing you can count on from the site, it’s that nothing gets a free pass.
Review: Doppelganger #1
By Justin McCarty
I love doppelgangers; they are one of the coolest tropes out there. The evil twin, the traveler from another dimension, and the time traveler; all versions. It’s a little hobby of mine to look for people’s doppelganger. Using the evil twin motif and setting us up to be unsure of what is real is what makes this short series interesting. Alterna continues to turn out original, imaginative comics. Whether you think newsprint is a gimmick or not, (I like it) they keep making engaging comics.
Review: Hack/Slash Resurrection #2
By Dustin Cabeal
Well, it’s unlikely that I’ll continue reviewing this series. It’s already settled into its rhythm, and while that’s great for people that are enjoying it, I’m still finding it to be average. Sometimes painfully average.
Review: Sword of Ages #1
By Cat Wyatt
Sword of Ages is from the artist and co-creator of Lock & Key, a series I’m sure many of you are familiar with. There’s quite a bit of setup for this series, and I’ll admit a lot of it felt particularly rushed in the beginning. Avalon’s (the main character) is quickly spanned from being an infant to a teenager (or older, hard to say) in the span of a few pages. It’s clear that Gabriel Rodriguez (the author) was looking forward to getting too specific points in the series, and we’re just not there yet.
Review: Rumble v2 #1
By Ben Snyder
Rumble #1 does something very few continuing stories achieve successfully. It tells a gripping story that acknowledges it’s past issues but still welcoming to new readers. After a brief introduction into the history of the world and its varying players, the reader is thrown into an entirely original story with interesting characters and a well thought out mythos.
Review: John Wick #1
By Justin McCarty
The cover to John Wick is really good. That I liked. The comic itself never really comes together. The cover though captures all of the neo-noir that the movie gives you. The comic itself. Not so much. I’m a John Wick fan, and I was looking forward to Dynamite getting this, but I was disappointed with the final result. I really didn’t want to write a bad review, like everybody else I thought the movies were amazing and saw no reason it wouldn’t be an amazing comic, my expectations were too high, I just couldn’t shake the overall feeling of meh.
Review: Kill or Be Killed #14
By Ben Snyder
Kill or Be Killed #14 wraps up the third story arc in tremendous fashion. Most of the issue wouldn’t necessarily seem that exciting as it mostly just goes through Dylan’s plan of destroying the Russian mafia, which is executed perfectly. But the combination of Ed Brubaker’s masterful script and Sean Phillips beautiful art continually prove with each new installment how great this story is.
Review: New Talent Showcase #1
By Cat Wyatt
DC’s New Talent Showcase is an idea that the president of DC Entertainment, Diane Nelson, came up with as a way of showing off some of the recent students from their Talent Development Workshops (which sounds fantastic). The shorts in this issue are from the 2016 class, as the 2017 one only just wrapped up.
Comic Bastards Podcast - 022
By Dustin Cabeal
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022 - Welcome back to the show, I'm ahead of the releases this week so be forewarned that you could hear details about books you can't read yet. That may or may not save you some cash. I cover a lot this week, from indies to big ass titles so sit back and give it a listen.
Comic Books covered in this episode:
- Giantkiller #0
- Gung Ho (One-Shot)
- Heavy Vinyl (former Hi-Fi Fight Club) #4
- Hack/Slash Ressurection #2
- Detropia #1
- Malefic #1
- Batman: Creature of the Night #1
Review: James Bond: Solstice
By Justin McCarty
James Bond: Solstice, Dynamite’s winter one-shot is out and does not disappoint. This story takes Bond out of his normal duties to do a favor for M. I was reminded of Ian Fleming’s short stories, with their low key plots and smaller stakes. From A View to a Kill comes to mind. Frequently in James Bond stories, the writer will try to throw everything that is James Bond at the story, often turning it into a paint-by-numbers affair. At least that’s how I felt about the last James Bond comic I read. This story gave us a distinctly Bond story without the cliche’. Everything is here but done in a creative and subtle way. I haven’t had a chance to read all the one-shots, but if they are all as good as this, I’ll have to correct that soon.
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