Category: Graphic Novel Reviews
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Double Jumpers TPB Review
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Double Jumpers is an entertaining read and has a lot of heart to counterweigh its adult humour, and I’d love to see these characters in another “adventure,” albeit hopefully one which plays more on the love/hate relationship between games developers and their devoted fans.
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Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness TPB Review
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All in all, Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness justifies its existence and does actually enhance the overall Into Darkness experience. Which, I guess, automatically places it a notch above almost every other TV/movie tie-in I’ve read in recent years.
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Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth #1-4 Review
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Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth is perhaps the epitome of a cult comic. Much like the works of John Waters, Troma and Todd Solondz it’s going to offend a large portion of the people who read it, but those who appreciate Kristensen’s dark humour wont just like the series, they’ll love it.
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Archaeologists of Shadows Vol 1: The Resistance Review
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Archaeologists of Shadows paints a cybernetic vision of the future, in which technological modification has not only become standard, but the organic is being phased out in favour for the mechanical.
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‘The Trip’ Graphic Novel Review
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Action Lab Comics has certainly upped the ante with its Danger Zone imprint for mature readers, and The Trip is yet another highly polished indie title – a Tales from the Crypt inspired horror tale about a drug which induces lethal hallucinations.
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Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cú Chulainn Review
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Will Sliney, the Cork-based artist of Fearless Defenders, illustrates the legendary Irish hero Cú Chulainn in this vivid graphic novel adaptation.
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ARK Graphic Novel Review
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Had Star Trek been alive, well and on television in the 70s, the era of Silent Running and Solaris, it may very well have resembled ARK, a sci-fi series following a crew of humans and meta-humans travelling beyond our galaxy in search of another habitable planet.
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The Murder Mile Graphic Novel Review
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Paul Collicutt’s The Murder Mile, an Arizona-based detective story set in 1954 and detailing on the battle between several middle-distance runners to achieve the world’s first four-minute mile, is an idiosyncratic gem.