Don't Confuse The New Lieutenants of Metal With The Bronze Age Lieutenants of Metal... or Something
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Don't Confuse The New Lieutenants of Metal With The Bronze Age Lieutenants of Metal... or Something

By Dustin Cabeal

I will read this because Ulises Farinas is a unique voice in comics. That said, sometimes that unique voice can leave all his work feeling the same. Point in case, when I read the preview (see below) I got the same vibe I did with his last two or three comics. That doesn't mean it's a bad read or that it won't be enjoyable. With any creator, you want to see them continue to expand and create while maintaining their voice and not get stuck in the same type of story over and over. Is that the case here? Find out in July... supposedly on the 4th.

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Liefeld Gets The Monies By Embracing Every Joke About Him and Creates A Character Called "The Pouch"
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Liefeld Gets The Monies By Embracing Every Joke About Him and Creates A Character Called "The Pouch"

By Dustin Cabeal

I have said this numerous times on the now-defunct CBMFP; Rob Liefeld is one of the smartest men in comics. He's second only to Stan Lee in getting fucking paid. Why? Because as much as he's bagged on, the dude gets paid, embraces jokes about himself and turns it into paydays. I mean The Pouch is just fucking Cable... made of pouches... and we all know that fucking Liefeld can draw the shit out of some pouches. Shit, it might even help him draw feet if he just pretended they were pouches, to begin with. I am not encouraging anyone to buy this variant. I know you all will still, so it doesn't matter what I say and that's why Liefeld wins in the end, morbid curiosity and the illusion of value. I'm just here to say "Kudos" to Liefeld because I saw this shit and was like, "you've done it again." And if it didn't line Liefeld's pockets, I would actually get this just because of Michel Fiffe. 

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Review: Sacred Creatures vol. 1
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Review: Sacred Creatures vol. 1

By Jonathan Edwards

If Ales Kot’s Wolf taught me anything (other than that a mediocre series can still get you back into reading comics), it’s that I’m a sucker for extra-sized first issues. So, when Sacred Creatures #1 came out in July of 2017 boasting a whopping 66 pages on top of a contemporary fantasy story (a subgenre I already prefer), I was more than a little intrigued. I picked up the first issue, as well as the other issues in the first volume as they came out, but they all ended up unread and in my backlog. That is until I signed up to review this trade.  

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Review: Royal City #11
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Review: Royal City #11

By Ben Snyder

Royal City #11 picks up exactly where it left off prior to its flashback arc; with Patrick and his recently discovered niece awaiting his estranged wife Greta as she joins him in the titular Royal City. It’s hard to give this entry a positive review when it leaves the reader in a state of perpetual malaise. But one hallucinatory character says it best near the end of the chapter, “That’s what this place does to you… leaves you in between.” That is why this chapter is successful; Jeff Lemire is totally in control of the story and flexing his artistic muscles by forcing the reader to join the characters in this semi-purgatorial rotting steel town.

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Review: Barrier #5
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Review: Barrier #5

By Cat Wyatt

The final issue of Barrier is here, and with it will likely be a bittersweet ending. Brian K. Vaughan isn’t exactly known for his happy endings, so this is something to keep in mind as we explore Barrier #5 today. The last time we saw Liddy and Oscar they were trapped on an alien planet, but rather than letting that fact defeat them they had stepped up and started fighting. Here’s hoping that fight ends up taking them somewhere good.

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Review: Kill or Be Killed #19
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Review: Kill or Be Killed #19

By Ben Snyder

Although, I have been an avid fan of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Kill or Be Killed so far, there hasn’t quite been an issue that left me saying “what?” until this chapter. Kill or Be Killed #19 obviously signals the eventual series ending with a final page that will leave readers feeling and saying similarly, but it shouldn’t detract or distract from a thoroughly intense albeit dialogue heavy chapter. If there’s one complaint to Ed Brubaker’s style is that he can be a bit too dialogue-heavy and that is very prevalent in this chapter. Despite this, I think teamed up with Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser, this complaint is soothed a bit, as each cog works together harmoniously to produce another solid issue of Kill or Be Killed.

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LEVIATHAN a giant Summer launch for Image Comics
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LEVIATHAN a giant Summer launch for Image Comics

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Join multiple Eisner-winning writer John Layman (CHEW) and Eisner-nominated artist Nick Pitarra (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS), along with soon-to-be-nominated-for-best-colorist Michael Garland (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS) for an eye-popping, face-melting, reality-defying, nonstop rush of pure adrenaline this August in the forthcoming LEVIATHAN.

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Review: Shanghai Red #1
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Review: Shanghai Red #1

By Sam King

A ship, a mutiny, and a secret: the ingredients tossed together to make up the first issue of Image Comics’ Shanghai Red. A story of a girl out for vengeance, masquerading as a man, trying to get back the life that was taken from her. Where it will go next, who knows? If Red succeeds, we will see. This is a pretty good time though, that’s for sure.

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Review: Barrier #4
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Review: Barrier #4

By Cat Wyatt

It’s time for issue #4 of Barrier. How they’re planning on following up the extraordinary storytelling style shown in the last issue is anyone’s guess. The last time we saw our weary and unwilling travelers, they were trapped in a room that was rapidly filling with a water-like substance. Here we’ll hopefully not only find out they survive that, but how they’re planning on getting out of this situation altogether.

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Review: Skyward #2
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Review: Skyward #2

By Ben Snyder

While the zero gravity makes common-place earth and its dynamics interesting, the rest of Skywards #2’s script is anything but. Writer Joe Henderson and Artist Lee Garbett attempt to forge forward and examine how no gravity would affect our world and it’s inhabitants, the result is simply not that unique. It feels like a story repeatedly told with so little to differentiate it from the crowd. It’s not unreadable, and it’s not boring, I think the Zero-gravity is more than enough of a hook for right now, but something else will need to change, specifically its main character.

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