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  • Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods

    Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods

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    Paper Street Comics Story: Gentry Smith, Stan Wedeking Art: Daniel Wichinson (finishes, covers by Gentry Smith) Horror titles may constitute a large percentage of all indie and small press comics currently being published, but the medium is rarely used to nearly as good effect as its cinematic counterpart. Sure, horror comics can be gruesome, graphic,…

  • American Vampire #1 Comic Book Review

    American Vampire #1 Comic Book Review

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    DC/Vertigo, $3.99 Writers: Scott Snyder, Stephen King Art: Rafael Albuquerque Colours: Dave McCaig It’s practically impossible to review American Vampire without first mentioning that Vertigo’s latest marks the comic book debut of Stephen King, who’ll be providing a 5-part secondary tale in this ongoing “vampires through the ages” series from Scott Snyder. And a solid…

  • Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans Strikes in June

    Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans Strikes in June

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    This June NBM will be releasing the latest in their ghoulish A Treasury of XXth Century Murder series, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans. Part of the Junior Library Guild selection, this graphic novel by Rick Geary explores the infamous Louisiana serial killer’s reign of terror. Press Release below: Nights of terror! A city awash…

  • Ghost Whisperer Comic Episode Airs This Week

    Ghost Whisperer Comic Episode Airs This Week

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    While comic book adaptations are nothing new to television, it’s only recently that comics themselves have featured so predominantly on TV. Heroes, The O.C. and Supernatural have all enjoyed episodes or story arcs involving them colourful lil’ pamphlets in some form or another. Ghost Whisperer will also be having a comic-centric episode this Friday 2nd…

  • Stephen King’s N. #1 Comic Review

    Stephen King’s N. #1 Comic Review

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    Marvel, $3.99 Creative director: Stephen king Script: Marc Guggenheim Art: Alex Maleev The sequential art edition of Stephen King’s N. has a somewhat convoluted production history. Originally part of King’s short story collection Just After Sunset, it was translated into a series of twenty-five ninety second-long video “mobisodes” by Spider-man and Flash writer Marc Guggenheim…

  • Omnitarium #2 Comic Book Review

    Omnitarium #2 Comic Book Review

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    Ronin Sudios Writer: Jamie Gambell Art: J.C. Grande Letters: Bernie Lee Issue 1 of Jamie Gambell’s sinister period horror Omnitarium was a book of two distinct acts. An action-packed prologue detailed the execution of cultist Harrow Moonheart a century before the main events of a second, slower and more ominous half set within the confines…

  • Song of Saya #1 Comic Review

    Song of Saya #1 Comic Review

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    IDW, $3.99 Writers: Daniel Liatowitsch, Todd Ocvirk Art: Yair Herrera A young doctor’s promise is cut short when a car accident kills his parents and leaves him in need of experimental brain surgery. Josh finds his perceptions warping from between our established reality and a hellish landscape of organic, haemorrhaging structures and hideous physiognomies. Now…

  • A Rope Around Your Broken Neck Review

    A Rope Around Your Broken Neck Review

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    2010, Attackosaur Writer: Martin Ian Smith Art: R. Ricardo, Nicolas Brondo, Lara Phillips Ouch. You’ll probably not find a more brutally named comic than A Rope Around Your Broken Neck, but it’s a fittingly severe title for this grim tale of the relationship between an imprisoned priest and a prison guard turned executioner in plague-infected…