Advance Review: Face To Face With A Killer In `That Texas Blood’ #19
That Texas Blood wraps up its third – and best – story arc with a bang. Literally. The last issue
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Advance Review: No One is Safe in `Survival Street’ #4
How does a limited series that started with such great promise pivot quickly and end with a thud? Frankly, it’s
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Advance Review: Sisko Returns To Save the Galaxy – Again – In `Star Trek’ #1
It’s Captain Benjamin Sisko the rescue. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had one of the most epic – and controversial
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Advance Review: Side Characters Dominate `Sins Of The Black Flamingo’ #5
Who couldn’t use a little help from their friends? After the events of the first four issues in this series
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Advance Review: Breaking Into `Dead Mall’ #1 Has Its Perils
Ahhh ye olde shopping mall! That archetype of mid-to-late 20th century capitalism and hangout for teenagers desperately seeking to escape
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Advance Review: A Welcome Shift In Storytelling In `The Roadie’ #2
Shelby Petroski is having a bad day. She was nearly fired for performing profane, sacrilegious sounds during at talent show
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Advance Review: Old-Fashioned Fisticuffs Dominate `August: Purgatory Underground’ #4
The more that technology plays into science fiction action stories, the more creators choose to simplify their fighting styles. For
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Advance Review: An Ending Of Sorts In `The Silver Coin’ #15
Recurring characters in horror anthologies are difficult to come by. Of course, this series has its eponymous spare change that
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Advance Review: `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to be Kin’ #6 Starts with a Bang
If the goal of an opening splash page is to set the tone for the rest of an issues, then
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Advance Review: Ugly Religious Stereotypes Doom `Seven Sons’ #5
From its start, Seven Sons has had an intriguing premise, an interesting storyline and some amazing art. But the book
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Advance Review: `Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer’ #2 Bides Time Before Season 3
When you have a character as celebrated as Jean-Luc Picard, there is an understandable tendency to want bigger stories each
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Advance Review: The Killer Stalks His Prey In `That Texas Blood’ #18
From its introduction, That Texas Blood has been appointment reading. Each arc deals with a new mystery in Ambrose County
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Advance Review: We’ve Been Here Before In `Time Before Time’ #17
Bounty hunters often get a bad rap. From the Boba Fett in The Empire Strike Back to Jaws in the
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Advance Review: Choose Your Own Adventure In `Rogue Sun’ #7
For those of us of a certain age, Choose Your Own Adventure books were a staple of a pre-teen library.
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Advance Review: `Dead Kingdom’ #2 Takes Too Many Cues From `The Walking Dead’
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Robert Kirkman and the creative team from The Walking Dead must
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Advance Review: Fleshing Out the Villains In `Minor Threats’ #2
Minor villains have been the staple of comic books for decades. They serve often as comic relief or as a
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Advance Review: Embracing Every Liberal Cause In `Survival Street’ #3
Comic books are no stranger to tackling important social issues. Throughout their history they have, either directly or through metaphors,
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Advance Review: Revealing Origins In `Sins Of The Black Flamingo’ #4
In any story, exposition is more of an art than a science. There’s no predetermined, optimal path for a writer
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Advance Review: Entering the Disney World from Hell In `Dark Ride’ #1
With rides named Devil’s Due, Murder Mountain, Cannibal Café and Tunnel of Lovecraft, it’s pretty clear that that the amusement
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Advance Review: The 12-Step Program From Hell In `Ice Cream Man’ #32
For many addicts, the road to recovery begins with a 12-step program. You know the drill: Admit that you are
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Advance Review: Devouring A Visual Smorgasbord In `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #5
Everything you need to understand Geof Darrow’s work can be found on the first panel of the first page of
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Advance Review: Set Phasers To Fun In `Star Trek: Lower Decks’ #1
The success of the streaming series Star Trek: Lower Decks caught many by surprise. After all, the Star Trek franchise
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Advance Review: The Predictable Truth Slowly Emerges In `Seven Sons’ #4
After three issues of introducing readers up a country as obsessed with the second coming of Christ as it is
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Advance Review: Zeus Is Loose In `There’s Something Wrong With Patrick Todd’ #3
If ordinary people are judged based on the company they keep, then comic book heroes are only as good as
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Advance Review: Revisiting A Really Bad Year In `The Silver Coin’ #14
For many people, 2020 was the year from hell. The pandemic, the toilet paper shortage, the civil unrest following the
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Advance Review: Sending Demons Back To Hell With A Song In `The Roadie’ #1
Roadies have a lot of responsibilities – from helping to set up concert venues to prepping the musicians’ instruments. Fighting
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Advance Review: Celebrating The Final Frontier In `Star Trek’ #400
From a new starship captain’s first moments in the center chair, to Miles O’Brien’s early conflict with the Cardassians, to
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Advance Review: Deanna Schemes And Plots In `Star Trek– The Mirror War – Troi’
The real fun in Star Trek’s mirror universe is getting to see normally well-behaved and predictable characters act like they
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Advance Review: Targeting Our Gun-Obsessed Culture In `Survival Street’ #2
Popular media’s use of thinly veiled references to satirize or comment on the real world is a tried-and-true storytelling technique.
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Advance Review: `That Texas Blood’ #17 Delivers A Terrific Tale Of Humanity And Suspense
No capes. No superpowers. No problem. Midway through its third story arc, That Texas Blood continues to deliver a nuanced,
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Advance Review: Returning To Simpler Storytelling In `Time Before Time’ #16
Confusing a reader is a common storytelling technique. Multiple plot lines and characters with mysterious pasts that are slowly revealed
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