Advance Review — ‘The Twilight Zone’ #2 Crams A Lot Into A Single Issue
An ancient Chinese curse supposedly warns, “may all your dreams come true.” While the curse’s origins are apocryphal, in The
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Advance Review — Kirk Is Back In ‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ #2, But It’s Just Not Enough
Captain James T. Kirk is the ideal against which all other Starfleet commanders are measured against. From his heroic deeds
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It Flowed Together Pretty Easily – Discussing ‘Gargoyles/Darkwing Duck’ With Creators Greg Weisman and Tad Stones
Two staples of Disney’s 1990s afternoon programing block are teaming up in a new limited comic book series from Dynamite.
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Advance Review: ‘Blood & Thunder’ #7 Ends In A Bizarre Way
Regular readers of Blood & Thunder will remember bounty hunter Blood ended the last story arc by failing to bring
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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: Red Shirts’ #4 Doesn’t Give Readers Anyone To Root For
One of the reasons Star Trek has endured for over half a century is the characters and our emotional investment
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Advance Review: Clark Bint’s Artwork Stuns In ‘Cyberarchy’ #1
It’s probably a safe bet that few comic book enthusiasts had Mad Cave Studio’s Cyberarchy on their pull lists earlier
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Interview — Ben Mauro Talks ‘Huxley: The Oracle’
Creator Ben Mauro joins Tom in the virtual panel room to chat about his upcoming graphic novel, Huxley: The Oracle.
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Advance Review: ‘Crownsville’ #1 Explores A Frightening Man-Made Horror Story
From its opening in 1911, Crownsville State Hospital near Baltimore treated Black mental patients, though it quickly expanded to aid
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Advance Review – ‘Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man’ #3 Continues To Thrill
It is a testament to the Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man creative team that, three-quarters through the limited series we
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An Opportunity I Couldn’t Pass Up — Discussing ‘The Binti Trilogy’ Folio Edition With Artist David Palumbo
Originally published in 2015, the science fiction story Binti tells the story of a young Himba woman who is accepted
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Advance Review — ‘Exquisite Corpses’ #6 Is Feeling The Weight Of Its Many Characters
Having a number of interesting characters is critical to the success of most stories. After all, no one wants to
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Advance Review — Finch Continues To Dazzle In ‘Skinbreaker’ #2
Leave it to David Finch to take a relatively straightforward panel at the beginning of a book and turn it
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Advance Review — ‘No Man’s Land’ #2 Is An Icy Page-Turner
Szymon Kudranski knows how to keep your attention once he captures it. Perhaps that shouldn’t be a surprise given his
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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming’ #2 Is Brisk and Entertaining
This is not the homecoming that Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager had in mind. The
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Advance Review — ‘Out Of Alcatraz’ Is One Of The Best Comic Book Reads Of 2025
It’s not hyperbole to say that Out of Alcatraz, the limited series by writer Christopher Cantwell and artist Tyler Crook,
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Advance Review — The Big Battle Leads To Little Change In ‘Invincible Universe: Battle Beast’ #6
From the start, the overriding issue with Invincible Universe: Battle Beast has been the ease in which the main character
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Advance Review — ‘Everything Dead And Dying’ #2 Finds Humanity Amidst Horror
If zombie stories have taught us anything over the past several decades, it’s that the real threat is not the
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Advance Review — ‘Blood & Thunder’ #6 Tackles Some Big Questions About Humanity
For millennia, artists and philosophers have struggled with defining what it is to be human. Why are we here? Who
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Advance Review — Cantwell Shows Off His Storytelling Prowess In ‘Star Trek: Red Shirts’ #3
The body count may have slowed down slightly in Star Trek: Red Shirts #3, but the tension keeps building throughout
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Advance Review — The Key To Immortality Is In ‘The Twilight Zone’ #1
You are traveling through another dimension – a new comic book series based on an old television show. Yes, The
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Advance Review — James T. Kirk Returns, More Or Less, In ‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ #1
One of the most interesting concepts coming out of the otherwise disappointing streaming series Star Trek: Discovery was the idea
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Advance Review – Finch Delivers A Master Class In Comic Artwork In ‘Skinbreaker’ #1
It turns out there’s a really simple formula for creating a great comic book: Hire David Finch and give him
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Advance Review — Man Remains Visible, And Terrifying In ‘Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man’ #2
It’s not a joke to say that halfway through the limited series Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man, we still don’t
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We Comfort Ourselves With Nostalgia — Discussing Mad Cave’s ‘Xero’ With Vaho And Felipe Flores
Being stranded in a shopping mall is either your idea of Heaven or Hell, depending on your age. That’s the
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Advance Review — ‘Galactic’ #1 Relies Too Much On Familiar Sci-Fi Tropes
The spunky space princess. The heroic rogue with his furry sidekick. The evil villain set to invade a peaceful planet.
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Advance Review — Love, Plus Body Parts, Is In The Air In ‘Exquisite Corpses’ #5
Time for a little romance. After four issues of terror, traumatic amputations, backstabbing (some literally), and explosions, Exquisite Corpses #5
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Advance Review – A Complicated Plot And Stunning Artwork Lift ‘No Man’s Land’ #1
For three months a year, the United States and Russia are physically connected via a thin ice bridge in the
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Advance Review — ‘Invincible Universe: Battle Beast’ #5 Provides Character Insights Both Necessary And Irrelevant
Generally speaking, the more we know about a comic book character, the better. Understanding major character motivations is essential to
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Advance Review — ‘Blood & Thunder’ #5 Gets Back On Track, Sorta
Initially, it seems as though the latest issue of Blood & Thunder is about to make the same mistake as
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The Foundation Of Our Entire Western Civilization — Jean-Pierre Pécau Discusses ‘Caesar’s Spy’
Prolific French writer Jean-Pierre Pécau has spent much of his career writing graphic novels about history. His latest creation, Caesar’ Spy
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No Rest For The Weary — ‘Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming’ #1 Reviewed
IDW has brought the U.S.S. Voyager out of mothballs and back into the spotlight in its new limited series Star
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