Advance Review: ‘Odin’ #1 Kicks Off A Road Trip From Hell — Or Asgard
From the start, the new limited series Odin tries to walk the line among genres. There are elements of a
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Advance Review — Gritty Artwork Tells Its Own Story In ‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ #7
Sometimes all it takes is a change in artists to breathe new life into a comic book series.
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Crowdfunding Campaign For Sci-Fi Version Of ‘The Odyssey’ Launches May 26th
Move over Christopher Nolan. Bruno Catarino has his own take on The Odyssey. While a new version of the Greek epic hits
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Advance Review — ‘Dead By Daylight: The Hillbilly’ #2 Needs More Hillbilly
For a story that is supposed to give readers and gamers the origin story of a particularly nasty baddie, Dead By Daylight: The Hillbilly #2 could
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Advance Review: ‘That Texas Blood’ #21 Returns True To Form
Sheriff Joe Bob is back — and if you know who that is, you know that it’s a cause for
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Advance Review: ‘Blood & Thunder’ #13 Stages A Prison Break And Regains Its Footing
Is there anything more gratifying than seeing someone or something that has lost its way find itself again?
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Advance Review — ‘If Destruction Be Our Lot’ #1 Uses Robots To Examine The Human Condition
A new series about artificial intelligence and sentient machines has found an unlikely hero in…Abraham Lincoln. Or rather a mechanical
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Review: ‘White Sky’ #3 Begins To Answer Some Questions While Posing New Ones
For any long-term story — whether it’s in comic books or other media — posing and answering questions is something
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LCCAF 26: Restocking The Batcave, Italian Style
As the name implies, the Lake Como Art Festival is all about comic artwork and creators. Writers are not invited,
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Review: ‘Skinbreaker’ #8 Wraps Up The Series With An Extended Denouement
From its start, Skinbreaker has been a series that has relied on more on great visuals than on a great
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LCCAF 26: This Is My Passion Project — Discussing ‘The Wonderverse Saga’ With Creator Rachta Lin
Tucked away near the back of the Lake Como Comic Art Festival pavilion is Rachta Lin’s table. The cover artist has
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LCCAF 26: He Fights Monsters And Crap — Discussing ‘Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live’ With Creator Geof Darrow
You can’t look at a piece of writing or art and a business process and not wonder if it’s been
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LCCAF 26: Canapes, Spritz, And Gelato With Artists And Collectors At The Lake
One of Lake Como Comic Art Festival’s many unique features is a VIP gathering in Vila Erba, a beautiful venue
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LCCAF26: The Comics World’s Stars Descend On Lake Como This Weekend
While sports fans are descending on Pittsburgh this weekend for the NFL Draft, enthusiasts of a different persuasion are headed
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Advance Review: ‘Exquisite Corpses’ #12 Reminds Us Why We Fell In Love With This Series
And then there were two. Just not the two you expected. It’s been a rough Halloween night for
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There Are Clearly Fans From Every Era: Discussing Crowdfunding ‘G.I. Joe’ With Editor Alex Antone
As the crowdfunding campaign for the second set of G.I. Joe compendiums is winding down, Comicon.com caught up with editor Alex
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Advance Review — Death Comes To France In ‘Corpse Knight’ #1
Daddy’s back! And this time he’s mad! In Image Comics’ newest series, Corpse Knight, young Foy and her
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Quitting Social Media Is Essential: Talking ‘Physical Education’ With Creator Joana Mosi
Everything should be going great for Laura, the main character in Joana Mosi’s new graphic novel, Physical Education. She’s recently
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Advance Review — Simmonds and Boss Perfectly Complement Each Other In ‘Universal Monsters: Phantom Of The Opera’ #3
In the hands of artist Martin Simmonds, the Paris opera house’s ghost blurs the line between a monstrous human under
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Let Mind Management Take The Wheel — Matt Kindt Discusses ‘Mind MGMT: New And Improved’
Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT, a series about a secret government agency of super spies and psychic abilities, originally ran for
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Advance Review — ‘Ice Cream Man’ #45 Channels Hitchcock In All His Glory
As the saying goes, “Good artists borrow; great artists steal.” To take it one step further — if you are
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Advance Review — ‘Invincible Universe: Battle Beast’ #8 Ratchets Up The Action
If the last issue of Invincible Universe: Battle Beast suffered only a cameo appearance from the titular character, this latest
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Review — Being A Parent Is A Tough Job, Especially In ‘The Twilight Zone’ #6
It is said that being a parent is the only true full-time job. In The Twilight Zone, that notion turns
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Advance Review – ‘Blood & Thunder’ #12 Closes Out A Disappointing And Confusing Story Arc
On the plus side, this issue of Blood & Thunder gives readers a definitive ending to this story arc. Until
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Advance Review — A Killer Is On The Loose In ‘Dead By Daylight: The Hillbilly’ #1
A comic book based on a video game franchise is nothing new. But when that franchise is the hugely successful
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Review — Kirk Again Takes Command Of ‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ #6
After two issues of staying disappearing into the background, James T. Kirk finally reemerges from the shadows in the latest
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Advance Review — ‘White Sky’ #2 Tells A Compelling Story, But Doesn’t Reveal Many Secrets
Two issues into Image Comics’ new series White Sky, and questions are still piling up for readers? What happened that
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Advance Review: ‘Universal Monsters: Phantom Of The Opera’’#2 Continues To Wow
Character development is difficult to pull off in a four-issue miniseries. Seeing growth in a character after just the first
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Advance Review: ‘Skinbreaker’ #7 Features An Epic Battle With Jaw Dropping Art
If you’re going to dedicate nearly an entire issue to an epic battle, you’d better have a fantastic artist drawing
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Advance Review: ‘Exquisite Corpses’ #11 Nears Its Endgame, And Not A Moment Too Soon
Eleven issues into the first “season” of Exquisite Corpses and we’re finally down to the last two killers battling it
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I Love That He’s An Everyman — Discussing Crowdfunding ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’ Action Figures
The television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker debuted in 1974, following a pair of made-for-TV movies. While the original series
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