Advance Review: Art Imitates Life In `The Ward’ #4
A highly infectious disease ravages the population. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Healthcare workers are at their breaking point. Meanwhile xenophobia runs
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Advance Review: Revisiting Jean-Luc’s First Command In `Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer’ #1
For Jean-Luc Picard, before there was the USS Enterprise, there was the USS Stargazer. Picard’s first command, years before he
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Advance Review: ‘The Walking Dead’ Meets ‘Dungeons And Dragons’ In `Dead Kingdom’ #1
The zombie apocalypse has invaded nearly every aspect of our culture, from video games to movies to television’s The Walking
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Advance Review: ‘Ghost Planet’ One-Shots It
The main cover is by artist/letterer Sean Von Gorman and colorist Omar Estevez. It features an ominous atmosphere thanks to
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Advance Review: ‘Mega Centurions: Mega No More’ #2 Dips Quality
Artist Dexter Wee does a mostly great job with the interiors. However, Wee uses an unnecessary and jarring dutch angle
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Advance Review: It All Starts And Stops With Benjamin Morse In `August: Purgatory Underground’ #2
There’s having creative control over a project, and then there’s Benjamin Morse. Morse is not only writing and drawing the
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Advance Review: Masterful Storytelling In `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #4
Changing direction in the middle of any narrative is a difficult task. In comic books, it typically results in an
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Advance Review: The Sins Of The Father Dominate `Public Domain’ #3
When adult children make serious mistakes with their lives, who is to blame? Is it the parents who may have
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Advance Review: Touched By An Angel In `Sins Of The Black Flamingo’ #3
What is a recently resurrected atheist to do when encountering an angel? Chances are, your first guess wasn’t to sleep
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Advance Review: Family Matters In `Stranger Things: Kamchatka’ #4
The bonds that connect family members some of the strongest, most emotional motivational devices in storytelling. When a story attempts
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Advance Review: D-Listers Save The Day In `Minor Threats’ #1
For every Joker and Thanos, there is a Condiment King and Stilt-Man. These D-list villains pose a minor threat to
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Advance Review: `Lower Your Sights’ Raises Money for Ukraine’s Children
A young Ukrainian refugee teaches her mother a lesson in faith. A letter carrier delivers devastating news from the battlefield,
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Advance Review: (Sort Of) Concluding `Star Trek: The Mirror War’ #8
When is an ending not an ending? After a year-long story composed of nine issues (including an issue #0) and
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Advance Review: Shifting The Nature Of Unreality In `Parasomnia: The Dreaming God’ #1
Dreams can morph in the most unexpected ways. Settings change in an instant. Characters appear and disappear. Suddenly you can
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Advance Review: Searching For The Truth In `Seven Sons’ #3
Fanatical religion and truth don’t always go hand in hand. But when a would-be messiah starts a search for the
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Advance Review: Dialing Up The Gore In `The Silver Coin’ #13
All comic book gore is not created equal. There’s the more ‘run-of-the-mill gore’ of seeing someone’s head cut off, or
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Advance Review: Death Haunts The Vampires In `Blood Stained Teeth #5
Death and vampires go together like politicians and corruption. But it’s usually the vampires doing the killing, not the dying.
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Advance Review: `Time Before Time’ #15 Provides A Good Jumping-On Point
All comic books series run the risk of losing their audience after so many issues. For independent creator-owned books that
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Advance Review: The Monster To The Rescue In `Frankenstein: New World’ #1
When the world goes to pot, turn to Frankenstein. The venerable monster returns to the Mignolaverse, this time as its
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Advance Review: Struggles Bring Out The Best In `That Texas Blood’ #16
After more than a dozen issues of That Texas Blood, readers have had the opportunity to learn more about Ambrose
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Advance Review: Mom And Dad Are The Real Monsters In `The Closet’ #3
With nearly every new story and issue, James Tynion IV reminds his readers why has won the Eisner Award for
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Advance Review: `Survival Street’ #1 Is Brought To You By The Letters ‘F’ And ‘U’
It’s not exactly a sunny day on this street. And no, everything is not A-OK. You can almost hear the
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Advance Review: Discovering The Real Monsters In `Something Is Killing The Children’ #25
If there’s one thing that Something is Killing the Children has demonstrated over 25 issues, it’s that as terrifying as
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Advance Review: Choosing Between Bad And Worse In `Rogue Sun’ #6
Talk about impossible choices. In the latest issue of Rogue Sun, 17-year-old Dylan, aka our hero, is forced to choose
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Advance Review: Chip Zdarksy Tells A Personal Story in `Public Domain’ #2
Finding the right work-life balance can be the challenge that last a lifetime. Finding the motivation to make that associated
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Advance Review: Finding Religion In `Sins Of The Black Flamingo’ #2
Sebastian Harlow is not a religious man. Sure, he’s a man of faith who believes in demons, magic and the
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Review: `The Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #3 Is Pure Geof Darrow
Only Geof Darrow. Only a mind a wickedly and wonderfully demented as Darrow’s could pull off something like Shaolin Cowboy
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Advance Review: The Hero Finally Makes His Return In `The Rocketeer– The Great Race #4
The Rocketeer is back – finally! After three issues where the titular character showed up only sporadically, the Rocketeer is
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Advance Review: Exploring The Horror Of That First Kill In `The Silver Coin’ #12
In war, no one is innocent. Even the nicest or meekest person must be turned into a killing machine in
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Advance Review: Exploring The Downside Of A God’s Life In `Seven Sons’ #2
Being the messiah apparently isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, there’s the adoring public who are willing to
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Advance Review: `Ice Cream Man’ Tells A Serious Father-Daughter Tale In Issue #31
For 30 issues, Ice Cream Man has told tales of horror and gore – always doing its best to shock,
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