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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Advance Review: Confronting The Six(?) Deadly Sins In ‘Exorcists Never Die’ TPB
Greed is a dragon protecting its hoard of gold and riches. Gluttony is a massive mound of revolting flesh. Envy
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Review: ‘Star Trek: Holo-Ween’ #2 Is An Unintentional Nightmare
Talk about a nightmare scenario. The Enterprise is being terrorized by the spirit of Jack the Ripper that has become
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Advance Review: The Suspense Never Lets Up In ‘Blood Commandment’ #1
The tension in Blood Commandment #1 is palpable from the first page all the way to the end. It starts
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Advance Review: An Unwanted Chase Is On In ‘Dark Ride’ Vol. 2 TPB
At the end of its first several issues, Dark Ride was guaranteed to deliver a shocker. Whether it was the
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Advance Review: Oeming And Soma Are The Real Dons In ‘Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose’ #6
On the surface, the final issue of Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose is about a takeover of the five mafia families
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Review: It’s Race Time In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run’ #2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run pits the Enterprise crew against other starships in the race of
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Review: Phillips Paints The Old West Red In ‘The Enfield Gang Massacre’ #3
Apparently the West was won with blood. A lot of blood. Fortunately, for readers of The Enfield Gang Massacre, that
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Advance Review: ‘Phantom Road’ TP Vol. 1 Starts In Neutral Then Accelerates
With a creative team as talented as Jeff Lemire and Gabriel H. Walta, you would think that Phantom Road would
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Advance Review — ‘Black Hammer: The End’ #2 Unleashes Multiversal Madness
If you have to tell tired stories about the multiverse, it’s best to really lean into them. That’s the approach
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Advance Review: Pondering What’s Next In ‘Midlife (Or How To Hero At Fifty!)’ #1
For many of us, turning 50 is a momentous – and pretty scary – occasion. It unofficially marks the beginning
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Advance Review: ‘A Haunted Girl’ #1 Helps Its Writers To Exorcise Their Demons
For writers, the art of writing goes far beyond mere communications. It’s a way of coping with an often cruel
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Review: ‘Fishflies’ #2 Explores Childlike Innocence
A child’s innocence is ripe with potential for storytellers. Jeff Lemire, in particular, uses kids to help introduce the reader
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Review: ‘Something Is Killing The Children’ #33 Starts To Return To Form
It’s taken way too long, but in the latest issue of Something is Killing the Children reminds us why we
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Advance Review: ‘Ice Cream Man’ Vol. 9 Shifts From Horror To The Human Condition
From a couple of hobos riding the rails to a man willing to be swallowed up by a whale to
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Advance Review — ‘Bone Orchard: Tenement’ #4 Is A Mystery Wrapped Inside A Conundrum
Every once in a while, a comic book comes along that is so intentionally confusing yet fascinating that you walk
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Advance Review: ‘Time Before Time’ #27 Builds Toward The Series’ Climax
When it comes to time travel, things can get confusing. In Time Before Time, with multiple characters in multiple era
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Advance Review: ‘TerrorWar’ #6 Takes A Long Time To Tell A Short Story
To say that things aren’t quite right in Blue City would be something of an understatement. After all, for years,
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Advance Review — ‘Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins’ #4 Tells An Atypical Story
Stranger Things is not known for treating its secondary characters very well. (Justice for Barb, anyone?) So when Dark Horse
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Advance Review — Beware The Holodeck (And The Dialogue) In ‘Star Trek: Holo-Ween’ #1
Ah, the legendary Star Trek holodeck – where an untold number of plot points are born and routine leisure activities
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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: Resurgence’ TPB Is Anything But
With the success of new streaming series like Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek
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