Advance Review — ‘Universal Monsters: Dracula’ #2 Sustains A Bloody Good Track Record
It really isn’t fair that a comic book is this consistently good. Yes, readers have only been treated to two
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Advance Review — It’s Nightmare After Nightmare In ‘Bone Orchard: Tenement’ #6
Have you ever had a nightmare so frightening and so vivid you have trouble understanding where the dream stopped and
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Advance Review: Heroes Fall By The Dozens In ‘Black Hammer – The End’ #4
At the rate heroes fall in Black Hammer: The End #4, there won’t be enough of them around to get
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Advance Review: Cloonan And Lotay Explore Dark Desires In ‘Somna’ #1
Spinning out of their short story in The Devil’s Cut, Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay have again teamed up for
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Advance Review: Interconnected Stories Drive ‘Where The Body Was’
Seeing the names Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on a new graphic novel cover is enough to get most crime
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Advance Review: Aliens Are Among Us In ‘The Ministry Of Compliance’ #1
For a series about a decades-long alien conspiracy to subjugate Earth, The Ministry of Compliance certainly starts off with a
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Advance Review — The Hero Dominates ‘The Rocketeer: In The Den Of Thieves’ #4
For a series that initially didn’t feature much of its titular hero in the first two issues, the conclusion of
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Advance Review: ‘Fishflies’ #3 Makes The Familiar Feel Fresh
At first blush, Jeff Lemire’s Fishflies #3 contains few original story elements. There’s a young boy who is clinging to
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Advance Review: ‘A Haunted Girl’ #2 Needs To Work On Its Pacing
For kids who are battling mental disorders such as depression, just getting out of bed and dragging themselves to school
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Advance Review — ‘Junior Baker: The Righteous Faker’ #3 Remains A Visual Feast
While readers – and reviewers – may have trouble understanding the story in Junior Baker: The Righteous Faker, Ryan Quackenbush’s
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Advance Review — ‘TerrorWar’ #7 Gets Preachy While Finally Revealing Background
It’s taken TerrorWar nearly all of its run before explaining why the inhabitants of Blue City are facing their worst
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Advance Review: ‘Time Before Time’ Comes To An End With Issue #29
After 29 issues, a handful of artists, and more than a billion years, Time Before Time has reached its end.
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Advance Review: All Hell Breaks Out Visually In ‘The Devil That Wears My Face’ #2
The Spanish Inquisition was not known for its subtlety in trying to drive out demons. While that was unfortunate for
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Advance Review: Kicking Butt – Fabulously – In ‘Death Drop Drag Assassin’ #2
The LGBTIQA+ community is fed up, and they aren’t going to take it anymore. Fortunately, for them, they have a
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Advance Review: Here Comes The Cavalry In ‘The Enfield Gang Massacre’ #4
In Westerns, the arrival of the cavalry typically means the good guys have arrived, and the good guys will soon
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Advance Review: ‘Midlife (Or How To Hero At Fifty)’ #2 Is On Fire!
Of all the superpowers in comics – from flying to invulnerability – being fireproof is not the most coveted. Still,
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Advance Review: What A Circus! In ‘Phantom Road’ #6
With concerns about the treatment of animals, circuses have largely fallen out of fashion these days. Judging from the state
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Advance Review: It’s Halloween Time In ‘Dark Ride’ #9
The calendar may have just changed to November, but for Dark Ride, it’s all about Halloween. In this case, though,
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Advance Review: Stand Your Ground Laws Take Center Stage In ‘No/One’ #6
The United States was founded with the central idea that personal rights were of paramount importance. From freedom of expression
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Advance Review: Looking For Some Needed Surprises In ‘Our Bones Dust’ #1
Ben Stenbeck is taking on a lot on Our Bones Dust. A frequent collaborator with the legendary Mike Mignola, Stenbeck
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Advance Review: A Fight On Two Fronts In ‘Something Is Killing The Children’ #34
Finally, after 13-odd issues, it’s come down to this. Something is Killing the Children, the once-great series featuring monster hunter
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Advance Review: The Figglybumps Go To War In ‘Ice Cream Man’ #37
It’s the Big One. The War to End All Wars. The battle of… the Figglybumps and the bob-bots? And isn’t
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Advance Review: Love Is A Battlefield In ‘Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World’ #10
Imagine not being able to recognize the one you love. Worse still, imagine that you can only see the one
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Advance Review — Tynion And Simmonds Sink Their Teeth Into ‘Universal Monsters: Dracula’ #1
It wouldn’t be Spooky Season without a great vampire story. And James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds retell the father
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Advance Review: Jock Takes ‘Gone’ #1 To The Stars
Upstart publisher DSTLRY burst onto the comic scene last August with its collection of short stories called The Devil’s Cut.
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Advance Review — Gearing Up For The Big Fight In ‘Black Hammer: The End’ #3
With the multiverse at stake – and only a handful of issues left – it’s time for Black Hammer: The
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Advance Review: Tynion And Hixson Send A Christmas Card In ‘The Deviant’ #1
A word of advice: If you receive a Christmas card from James Tynion IV or Joshua Hixson, think twice before
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Advance Review: Complex Images Complement Straightforward Script In ‘Bone Orchard – Tenement’ #5
Early in the latest issue of Bone Orchard: Tenement, amid some relatively mundane pages, comes a double-page spread that will
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Advance Review: Unraveling The Mysterious ‘Junior Baker: The Righteous Faker’ #2
There is a panel, three-quarters of the way through the second issue of Junior Baker: The Righteous Faker, where journalist
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Advance Review: It’s A Mad Libs World In ‘Swan Songs’ #4
Ahh Mad Libs, those fill-in-the-blank games that help to pass the time on long car rides. The quasi choose your
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Advance Review: The End Is Nearly Here In ‘Time Before Time’ #28
There is still one issue left in Time Before Time, but the creative team has already stuck the landing. This
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