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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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Echoes’ #5 Gets Too Cutesy
While Spock never took the infamous Kobayashi Maru test, in the final issue of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Advance Review: ‘Swallower Of Shades’ #1 Leaves Readers Hanging
From That Texas Blood to Canary, comics books that mix Westerns with horror have grown in popularity lately. A new
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Advance Review: ‘Junior Baker The Righteous Faker’ #1 Is A Visual Extravaganza
Artist Ryan Quackenbush’s name doesn’t appear on today’s lists of top talent in the comic book industry. But after his
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Advance Review – Soma’s Colors Shine Brightly In ‘Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose’ #5
Like letterers, comic book colorists are often overlooked by readers (and reviewers) unless they make a questionable creative decision that
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Advance Review: A High-Flying Conclusion In ‘Barnstormers’ #3
From its outset, Barnstormers has been about three characters. While the initial focus has been on the two high-flying criminals
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Advance Review: Face To Face With The Devil In ‘Dark Ride’ #8
They don’t call him Danny D. Evil for nothing. The mascot of the amusement park Devil Land takes center stage
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Advance Review: ‘Torrent’ Vol. 1 TPB Tells A Familiar, But Enjoyable, Revenge Story
Michelle Metcalf starts off Torrent at the top of the world. She’s a superhero named Crackerjack who seems to be
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Advance Review: ‘The Enfield Gang Massacre’ #2 Is Not Your Typical Western
No one is going to complain that there isn’t enough action in the latest chapter of The Enfield Gang Massacre.
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Advance Review: The End Becomes The Beginning In ‘Swan Songs’ #3
What happens when the end becomes the beginning? Do Adam and Even get to live in Eden for a time?
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Advance Review: Great Artwork Saves `Exorcists Never Die’ #6
Sebastian Piriz has literally been through hell and back during Exorcists Never Die – and he has taken his readers
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Advance Review: Struggling For Answers In ‘Hexagon Bridge’ #1
If the point of the first chapter in a limited series is to get you curious enough to buy the
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Advance Review: ‘Black Hammer The End’ #1 Enters The Multiverse … Unfortunately
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Superheroes are facing an interdimensional villain who threatens to destroy all creation.
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Advance Review: It’s Bombshell After Bombshell In ‘W0rldtr33’ #5
What a way to conclude an initial storytelling arc! W0rldtr33 #5 kicks off with a time jump to 2049 featuring
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Advance Review: The Stars Come Out For DSTLRY’s ‘The Devil’s Cut’
Talk about a who’s who of comic book talent. New creator-owned publisher DSTLRY has assembled an Avengers-like roster of founding
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Advance Review — The Enterprise Races In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run’
Call it a different kind of space race in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run #1. Lost
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A Whale Of A Tale: Reviewing ‘Ice Cream Man’ #36
From the Bible’s Jonah to Moby Dick to Pinocchio, whales have served as a storytelling focal point for millennia. With
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Artist Dave Acosta Pulls Out All The Stops: Reviewing ‘TerrorWar’ #5
TerrorWar #5 must have been a labor of love for artist Dave Acosta. Acosta, more than ably assisted by inker
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Advance Review– In Search Of ‘The Rocketeer: In The Den Of Thieves’
The good news is that this issue of The Rocketeer: In the Den of Thieves starts off with something that’s
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Advance Review — Robin Directs The Action In ‘Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins’ #3
The Stranger Things universe has grown to the point where it can be difficult to remember certain characters, particularly though
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Advance Review — ‘Bone Orchard: Tenement’ #3 Demonstrates How To Transition A Series
Transitional issues can be difficult to pull off. They require the right mix of exposition and action. Answer too many
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Advance Review: A Single Panel In ‘No/One’ #5 Shatters The Illusion
Sometimes all it takes to jar you out of enjoying a terrific comic book is a single panel that is
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Advance Review: ‘Time Before Time’ #26 Deftly Begins The Series’ Conclusion
For a series that has been around for more than 25 issues, bringing a story to a conclusion can be
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Advance Review: ‘Rogue Sun’ #15 Amps Up The Family Drama
Rogue Sun has always been a series about family. Yes, it has superpowered beings smacking each other around for control
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Advance Review: Welcoming Serial Killers By The Dozens In ‘Kill More’ #1
Welcome to Colonia! It was nice knowing you. People keep dying in Colonia at an alarming rate. In fact, the
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Advance Review — It’s Back To The Future In ‘Star Trek: Picard’s Academy’ #1
After the thrilling conclusion of Jean-Luc Picard’s career seen in the Paramount+ show Star Trek: Picard, IDW takes us 76
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Advance Review: Nothing Is Working In ‘Something Is Killing The Children’ #32
When a comic book’s creative team is in sync, it’s truly magic. Amazing visuals drive a compelling story, practically forcing
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Advance Review: Atoning For The Original Sin In ‘Exorcists Never Die’ #5
Over the past several issues, the heroes of Exorcists Never Die have fought their way through manifestations of most of
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Advance Review: Evil Rears Several Ugly Heads In ‘The Devil That Wears My Face’ #1
The recent passing of The Exorcist director William Friedkin has brought the horror movie back into the headlines. But in
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Advance Review: ‘The Schlub’ #1 – Haven’t We Been Here Before?
There’s no nice way to put this: Roger Dalton is a schlub. He’s an overweight loser who never amounted to
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Advance Review: Love Is A Battlefield In ‘Swan Songs’ #2
Love is a many-layered phenomenon. While it often encompasses positive feelings that song writers and poets have been opining on
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