Advance Review: ‘Bone Orchard – Tenement’ #1 Shakes Up Comic Book Monotony
Leave it to master storytellers Jeff Lemire and Andrew Sorrentino to defy conventional comic book wisdom while enticing readers to
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Advance Review: ‘Star Trek – Picard – Stargazer’ Saves The Best For The End
Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer starts off in warp drive, quickly falls into a wormhole, then saves the day at
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Advance Review: Small Talk Is Big In `W0rldTr33’ #2
After launching his new series, W0rldtr33, out of a cannon in its premiere issue, writer James Tynion IV takes a
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Advance Review: It’s Hero Vs. Hero In `Torrent’ #4
Sure superheroes make their living fighting the likes of Thanos and Kang and Darkseid. But every so often, the real
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Advance Review: Earth Is A Mess In ‘Don’t Spit In The Wind’ #3
The Earth is in rough shape in Stefano Cardoselli’s Don’t Spit in the Wind #3. The planet — or what’s
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Review: ‘Ordinary Gods’ #12 Leaves Loose Ends
Editor/designer Michael Busuttil, production artist Rich Fowlks, and logo designer Rich Bloom provide nothing of relevance to critique. This is
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Advance Review: Hitting The Sophomore Slump In `TerrorWar’ #2
TerrorWar has hit the sophomore slump. After a strong first issue, the follow-up chapter just kind of…is. It’s not bad,
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Advance Review: Artwork Brings New Layers To `Time Before Time’ #23
They’re almost out of time. That may seem unlikely for a group of time travelers, with issue #23 of Time
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Advance Review: `Land of Danger’ #1 Gives A Voice To The Marshallese
The dawn of the Atomic Age in the 1940s and 50s had a huge impact on popular culture. Words like
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Advance Review: Lusting After Some Amazing Art In `Exorcists Never Die’ #2
If you’re going to have a comic book series that features a new villain every month, you might as well
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Advance Review: Boldy Going In `Star Trek – The Motion Picture – Echoes’ #1
While Star Trek has explored a lot of different time periods, little is known about the time immediately after the
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Advance Review: `Ice Cream Man’ #35 Gets Meta
The anthology series Ice Cream Man has never been afraid of being self-referential. When writer W. Maxwell Prince explores a
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Advance Review: Peeling Layers Of The Onion In `No/One’ #3
Any 10-part series is bound to hit a rough spot or two. For No/One, it happens in issue #3. The
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Advance Review: `Dark Ride’ #6 Gets A Bit Trashy
If you thought Dark Ride’s Devil Land was scary, wait until you see what’s underneath it. Most of this sixth
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Advance Review: Oeming And Soma Are Killing It In `Murder Inc. – Jagger Rose’ #1
Welcome to the world of Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose, where the five crime families rule the country through fear, murder
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Advance Review: `Phantom Road’ #3 Shifts Into The Fast Lane
That’s more like it. After two ho-hum introductory issues, Phantom Road has found its voice in the latest installment. Curiously,
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Advance Review: It’s Puppy Love In `Deep Space Nine – The Dog Of War’ #2
Welcome to Deep Space K-9! No, not the station where we first met the infamous Tribbles. Instead, this station is
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Advance Review: The Cat Keeps Coming Back In `Hairball’ #2
There is an old folk song, popularized by musician Fred Penner and sung by countless children around the campfire called
Read moreAdvance Review: Don’t Look For A Satisfying Ending In `Where Monsters Lie’ #4
If they are good for anything, the creative team behind Where Monsters Lie certainly knows how to grab readers’ attention.
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Advance Review: Vibrant Colors Paint The Picture In `Blood Stained Teeth’ Vol. 2
It isn’t often that the star of a series is the colorist, but in the case of Blood Stained Teeth,
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Advance Review: Peter J. Tomasi Delivers A Great Script For `Blood Tree’ #4
In the mind of Blood Tree’s killer, the sins of the father are visited upon the son, and the daughter,
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Review: `Who Killed Sarah Shaw?’ Chapter 1 Is A Familiar True Crime Story
For whatever reason, true crime has captured the imaginations of bloggers, streaming shows and audiences. Perhaps it’s the idea that
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Review: ‘Sidereal Apogee’ #5 Mostly Succeeds While Referencing A Movie
Writer Phoebe A. Xavier creates some believable futuristic scenarios. Xavier also raises some questions in relation to technology and corporations
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Advance Review: `Don’t Spit In The Wind’ #2 Relies Heavily On Its Visuals
Sometime the visuals alone are enough to get you through a comic book. In the case of Don’t Spit in
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Advance Review: The Streets Are Bathed In Blood In `Torrent’ #3
With only a few exceptions, superheroes with secret identities have become passe. The world now knows that Clark Kent is
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Advance Review: ‘Ordinary Gods’ #11 Triggers And Disappoints
Editor/designer Michael Busuttil, production artist Rich Fowlks, and logo designer Rich Bloom do the same level of work that they
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Advance Review: Making Sense Of All The Timelines In `Time Before Time’ #22
Stories involving time travel have a tendency to be confusing. And when a series has been running for as long
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Advance Review: Singing Until The End `In Higher Ground- The Musical’ Vol. 1
The world is getting warmer. Glaciers are melting. Water levels are rising. What are we going to do??? Hey kids,
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Advance Review: The Pressure Is On In `No/One’ #2
Only two issues into the No/One limited series, and the pressure is already building. Cop Ben is being pressured by
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Advance Review: It’s Father Versus Son Versus Sun In `Rogue Sun’ #12
High school dances have a way of getting nasty in popular culture. Remember Spider-Man: Homecoming? To say nothing of Carrie.
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Review: ‘Sidereal Apogee’ #4 Has Some Obvious Inspirations
Writer Phoebe A. Xavier creates mostly solid scripts for the first two stories. While the fourth story only features text
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