Review: Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #1
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Review: Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Anytime I can return to the world of Beasts of Burden; it’s a damn good day. It’s probably going to be a sad day too because as a whole the Beasts of Burden series are heartbreaking. The brilliance of the idea is that it’s a simple witches and warlocks story, but because all the characters are animals, it plays upon peoples emotional attachment to their pets. Nearly seeing a dog die in a magic fight is ten times more moving than any death in Harry Potter. Just kidding, I know that will piss some people off, but there is an insane amount of emotion in this series, and that’s saying something considering there are no people in the story.

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Review: Blackwood #3
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Review: Blackwood #3

By Dustin Cabeal

What’s frustrating about Blackwood is that it’s clearly following the Dark Horse formula of mini-series over ongoings. Its what made Hellboy and the Mignolaverse successful because each new series is inviting to new readers. With Blackwood wrapping in one issue, it’s clear that this segment of the story will come to a close, but that the bigger story is just starting. I’m frustrated because I want to read a lot more of this series and who knows how long we’ll have to wait for it.

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Review: Blackwood #2

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ve written about this many times in reviews, but there was one point in my review life that I feared first issues more than second issues. The first issue is the journey into the unknown. You can’t possibly know if you’ll like the book at all until you crack up the pages for the first time. This, of course, leads to finding a lot of comics that aren’t in your wheelhouse. A few years back though it was as if every creator figured out the formula for a successful first issue. It could have been something amazing, but instead what happened was mediocre to poor second issues that felt more like first issues. It was like someone pulled some zero issue bullshit and so one after the other, I read horrible second issues. Suddenly, first issues didn’t even phase me. I expected them to be good to great, but to this day I still live in fear of the second issue because they still rear their ugly heads and send me away from a series faster than you can count the number of first issues released by Marvel in the past year.

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Review: Blackwood #1
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Review: Blackwood #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Listen… I’m all in on this crazy shit. I was basically all in when I read “Evan Dorkin,” but after the first several pages, I’m all in. I have no idea if this is a mini or continuing or one of those limbo series that will be picked up for more depending on the popularity, but comics like Blackwood have been missing in comics and more so missing from Dark Horse. I feel like Dark Horse at some point didn’t like their identity in comics and sought something different. Honestly, I don’t know what others think of them anymore, but horror themed comics of this quality are hard to find outside of Dark Horse.

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Dark Horse Serves Evan Dorkin’s Complete “Milk and Cheese” in Paperback in 2018
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Dark Horse Serves Evan Dorkin’s Complete “Milk and Cheese” in Paperback in 2018

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Sometimes dairy is a dish best served spoiled. Over the years, Milk and Cheese has proven to be a comic book of idiotic genius from the devilish mind of Evan Dorkin (Beasts of BurdenThe Eltingville Club) and Dark Horse is proud to announce the return of the Eisner Award-winning dairy duo in this trade paperback collection of Milk and Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad!

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