Advance Review: Discoveries Abound In `John Carpenter’s Tales Of Science Fiction – The Envoy’ #1
Imagine searching for extraterrestrial life and instead finding the cure for cancer. Oh, and ghosts too. In John Carpenter’s Tales
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Advance Review: `Phantom Road’ #1 Is A Highway To Who Knows Where
The life of a truck driver can be a lonely one. Days in the cab with nothing but miles of
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Advance Review: A Pirate’s Life Isn’t For Me In `Skull And Bones – Savage Storm’ #1
Criminals though they be, we cannot help but to glamorize the life of pirates. In fiction writing, popular movie and
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Life’s Not Fair Is It?: Discussing `Scar’ With Writer Chuck Brown And Artist Trevor Fraley
Disney movies are known for their villains, and few are more menacing that Scar from The Lion King. In a
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Advance Review: Surviving Multiple Bloodbaths In `Where Monsters Lie’ #2
Connor Hayes’ hero story begins in a familiar way. His mother and sister are murdered, sending the young man down
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Cynicism Toward Hero Worship: Discussing `Monomyth’ With Writer David Hazan
In the upcoming comic book Monomyth, writer David Hazan explores magic and the dark side of the stories we hear
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Advance Review: Spock’s In Trouble In `Star Trek – Strange New Worlds – The Illyrian Enigma’ #3
Captain Christopher Pike seems to have trouble hanging onto his officers. The commander of the USS Enterprise initially lost his
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Advance Review: Politics Takes Center Stage In `Something Is Killing The Children’ #29
As if things weren’t difficult enough for Erica Slaughter, now she has to deal with office politics. On the run
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Advance Review: Scouts Rule In `Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World’ #4
There are the Boy Scouts depicted in Normal Rockwell’s paintings and then there at the Wasteland Rangers in Once Upon
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Advance Review: The Craziest Thing You’ve Ever Heard In `Ice Cream Man’ #34
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever heard? It’s a question that keeps coming up between two homeless men who find
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Rounding The Rough Edges: Discussing “We Are Scarlet Twilight” With Creator Ben Morse
Ben Morse likes to do it all himself. He writes his own comics. And draws them. He colors them as
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Advance Review: Timing Is Everything In `The Rocketeer – The Great Race’ TPB
As with comedy, one of the secrets to storytelling is timing. When to reveal certain plot points. When is the
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Advance Review: `SkullCat And The Curious Castle’ Challenges Kids’ Assumptions
First days on the job can be rough. But for Scully the Cat debut as a gardener may take the
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Advance Review: `Dead Mall’ #4 Is No Blue Light Special
It’s difficult to believe that a four-part series could wear out its welcome so quickly. Yet somehow Dead Mall did.
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Advance Review: Abusive Relationships Abound In `A Foulness In The Walls’
As destructive as they are abusive relationships can be hard to break out of. Whether it’s the abused partner’s lack
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Advance Review: Trekkers Deserve Better Than `Star Trek: Resurgence’ #4
When it comes to Star Trek captains, there’s no middle ground. They are either living legends like James T. Kirk
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Advance Review: The Jokes Keep Coming In `White Savior’ #2
Make no mistake: White Savior is humor series first, then action/adventure. The funny comes first in this series about Todd
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Advance Review: `Torrent’ #1 Delivers A Strong Start To A Promising Series
The world is Michelle Metcalf’s oyster. She has a great job as Crackerjack, a crime-fighting hero who’s pretty good at
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Force And Fists: Interviewing `Exorcists Never Die’ Writer Steve Orlando And Artist Sebastian Piriz
Out April 12, 2023, Exorcists Never Die follows two “combat exorcists” as they fight manifestations of the seven deadly sins
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Advance Review: Hunters Become The Hunted In `Stranger Things- Tales From Hawkins’ #1
Ah Hawkins, Indiana! A small town where nothing ever happens. That is, until the calendar turns to 1983 and the
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Advance Review: Time Is Running Out In `Blood Stained Teeth’ #9
The clock is ticking for Atticus Sloane. Sloane, a member of the First Born vampires, has funded his lavish lifestyle
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Advance Review: A Disappointing Family Reunion In `Time Before Time’ #20
It probably makes sense that a family reunion billions of years in the making wouldn’t live up to expectations. But
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Advance Review: The Useful Idiot Saves The Day In `Spy Superb’ #2
Jay Bartholomew III is not your typical secret agent. In fact, it’s so much of a secret that Bartholomew doesn’t
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Advance Review: Playing In The Ball Pit From Hell In `Dead Mall’ #3
Kids playlands are staples of any mall from the last several decades. These kiddie wonderlands allow the brats to let
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Advance Review: Dying To Get Into The Concert In `Killchella’ #2
If you thought Ticketmaster put you through the ringer to get Taylor Swift tickets, imagine having to kill – literally
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Chowing Down On A New Breakfast Of Champions: Reviewing `Cereal’ #1
Tracey Colorado is into breakfast cereal. Really into cereal. Like so into it, if the colors aren’t lined up perfectly,
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Advance Review: Beating The Hell Out Of Demons In `Exorcists Never Die’ #1
From nearly the first page, Exorcists Never Die starts off with some intense action, which never really ends until this
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Advance Review: It’s Raining Angels In `Blood Tree’ #1
Comics veteran Peter J. Tomasi knows how to grab an audience. Just a few pages into his newest series, Blood
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Advance Review: Exploring The Backstory In `Rogue Sun’ #10
Exploring characters’ backstories is an essential part of any ongoing series. Understanding where he or she came from – even
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Sugar Isn’t A Health Food Anymore: Interviewing `Cereal’ Writer Don Steinberg
The breakfast cereal industry is not a topic typically addressed by many comic books. But that doesn’t deter Don Steinberg,
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Advance Review: A Traitor In Their Midst In `Minor Threats’ #4
Betrayal is a common theme in literature – and is a staple in comic books. From Ozymandias hatching his master
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