Critiquing Comics #249: ‘Westron’
Westron is about a private investigator who investigates crimes with supernatural elements. When a girl is murdered, he feels driven
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Critiquing Comics #248: ‘The Blossoming City’ Pt 1 And ‘Loon News: The Comic Strip!’
Ian M is a Japan-based Canadian creator whose work we’ve discussed on this podcast before. His work is often about
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Critiquing Comics #247: ‘Lovers Quarrel’ And ‘Digital Bardos’ #2
A love triangle. One member feels jilted and goes off the deep end. A gun is involved. Tim and Adam
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Critiquing Comics #246: ‘Roy Beckwith And The Cursed Continent’ And ‘A French Expat In The UK’
Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent is a western series by Nick Patch, Jarret Katz, and Fabi Marques. It looks
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Critiquing Comics #245: ‘Joe Mallard’ #4-6 And ‘Dream Machine’
Joe Mallard, a favorite of Tim and Jason’s from a year ago, is back! Creator Asante Amani has sent us
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Critiquing Comics #244: ‘God Summoner’ And ‘The Keluarga Cable Ship Company’
This week, a look at two great new comics submitted by their creators: God Summoner, by Dio Zogaris and Manos
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Critiquing Comics #243: ‘Fables Of Fear’ And ‘Black Plastic’
Fables of Fear is an anthology horror title by Karl Brandt and David Parsons. Tim and Adam discuss; there are
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Critiquing Comics #242: ‘The Star Tide Shores’ Vol. 1
The Star Tide Shores is an action space adventure comic that isn’t afraid to get a little deeper emotionally than,
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Critiquing Comics #241: ‘The Shapes’ #4: El Puro
Samuel Edme‘s comic The Shapes is … a bit hard to pin down. It looks like notebook scribblings, it has its
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Critiquing Comics #240: ‘The Night Brigade’ And ‘Joe Mallard’
Most Americans know little about the Crimean War (1853-1856). Adam McGovern and Bruno Letizia’s The Night Brigade may go some way
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Critiquing Comics #239: ‘Let’s Go, Coco’ And ‘Digital Bardos’
What does an 11-year-old do when her “only friend” moves away? In Coco Fox‘s “sorta” memoir, Let’s Go, Coco, she
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Critiquing Comics #238: ‘Jane Jet’ And ‘The Fog Within’
Once again we take a look at some comics submitted by their creators; we talk about what we liked about
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Critiquing Comics #237: ‘Detective Perez: Autotropolis’ And ‘Griz Grobus’
Paul Pate releases his third “Detective Perez” graphic novel, called Autotropolis, a turned-to-eleven detective story that doesn’t take itself too
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Critiquing Comics #236: ‘Clover And Cutlass’ And ‘Coiled To Strike’
Clover and Cutlass is a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy YA comedy web comic by Toby Boyd. Adam joins Tim to
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Critiquing Comics #235: ‘Rebirth Of The Gangster’ And ‘Toe & So Long’
Critiquing Comics returns, with a comic that we just couldn’t put down, and one that we couldn’t quite pick up
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Critiquing Comics #234: ‘Murky Water’ And ‘Barking’
Kel McDonald‘s Murky Water is about a paranormal investigation police unit looking into the death of a man from drowning
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Critiquing Comics #233: ‘The World of Tomorrow’ And ‘Prism Stalker’
In this edition, we rejoin The World of Tomorrow, a comic we discussed the first issue of five years ago! This
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When it comes to truth in advertising, the title of this comic is an award winner: Ghezal Omar‘s Pimp Killer (with
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Critiquing Comics #230: ‘Thready’ #2 And ‘Tales from the Interface’ #4
Sometimes the topics of Critiquing Comics episodes come back for seconds – or thirds! We look at a couple of
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Critiquing Comics #229: ‘Christiania’
Christiania, a silent comic written by 13-year-old Abi Behe, is a take on the ills of social media by someone
Read moreCritiquing Comics #228: ‘Galacto: Pit Fighter’ #2 — “Requiem For A Humanzee”
Kirt Birdick is back with the second issue of his hyper-violent science fiction comic Galacto: Pit Fighter, “Requiem for a
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Critiquing Comics #227: ‘Mayfield Eight’ #1-#4
“A biker revenge tale” isn’t a story pitch that appeals to everyone, but any kind of story can get a
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Critiquing Comics #226: ‘Immortalis’ #1 and #2
A few weeks back, Tim and Jason discussed Sean Lewis‘ Immortalis — issue # 3. This time, we’re reading the
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Critiquing Comics #225: ‘Holy West’ #1
A supernatural western, Holy West, captivates Tim and Adam in this episode. The comic features smart writing by Seth Jacob
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Critiquing Comics #224: ‘Immortalis’
Immortalis is the story of a 19th-century woman, transplanted to the 21st, who is expected to be the world’s savior
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Critiquing Comics #223: ‘Here 2 Cypher’
Here 2 Cypher is an anthology of stories written by Brandon Hayes, whose story Thready Tim and Jason enjoyed back
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Critiquing Comics #222: ‘Berserker Monk’
Berserker Monk is a violent, but slightly humorous, comic that’s been pitched as “Tarantino meets The Last Airbender.” The creators
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Critiquing Comics #221: ‘Steamgear Inc.’
Alexandra (her friends call her “Ax”) is trying to get in touch with hero team Steamgear Defenders; she wants to
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Critiquing Comics #220: ‘Amazing Tales’ #5
This time, we critique the fifth installment in David Dye‘s Amazing Tales anthology series. In the main story, we again
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Critiquing Comics #219: ‘Rougarou’ and ‘The Poet and the Flea’
This week, a Critiquing Comics double feature: During the U.S. Civil War, a confederate soldier is changed into a dangerous
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Critiquing Comics #218: ‘A Lungful Of Brine’
This time, Jason introduces us to his former student Dan Tappan‘s first Kickstarter project, a nautical horror anthology with the
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