Tag: indie comics
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Grim Furry Tales: Seeds Review
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Grim Crew Written and Created by Martin Brandt II Artists: Jason Stephens, Eric Boswell, Chase Bowman, Martinho Duarte Abreu, Bob Smeets, Roberto Macedo Alves, Matthew Pinchback, Carl Jeffers, Paul Petyo, Timothy Kepple, Martin Brandt II, Jim, Amanda Faye, Matthew Pinchback, Kit White, Candy Hart It’s surprising how strong an idea of a book’s content you…
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Vampire Free Style #4 Review
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Written and Illustrated by: Jenika Ioffreda www.neptunefactory.com Vampires, vampires everywhere, and not a drop to drink. The monster so popular they’ve practically had an entire genre erected around them… and so on. Though calling the modern Nosferatu a “monster” is something of an overgeneralization, given the number of thoroughly decent bloodsuckers that have descended from…
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The Helm Graphic Novel Review
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2009, Dark Horse Story: Jim Hardison Art: Bart Sears, Randy Elliott Colours: Dan Jackson One thing that always baffles me is why, outside of buffoons like The Simpson’s Comic Book Guy, there are so few bona fide geeks in science fiction or fantasy. Sure, peculiar intellectuals can bring their idiosyncrasies to a team of nonspecific,…
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David Doub’s Dusk Available Now
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in Comic NewsAfter spending the last half hour wracking my brain for an original vampire pun for the above title, I’ve given up, gone all conventional and opted for the whole brevity thing. Quite pathetic, really. Sorry. Anyway, my prodigious powers of prognostication have alerted me to a new vampire series from Texan writer David Doub, entitled…
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Berlin: City of Stones Review
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2000, Drawn and Quarterly Written and illustrated by: Jason Lutes There’s a scene near the beginning of Jason Lutes’ Berlin, set in 1928 Germany, in which two characters joke about the changes their country is undergoing. Of course, they would have no idea of the scale or severity of things to come, but it’s a…
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City of Glass Graphic Novel Review
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1994 Adapted by David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik from the novella by Paul Auster Widowed poet Daniel Quinn lives in isolation, writing noirish detective fiction under the pseudonym William Wilson. When he receives a phone call from someone mistaking him for real life detective Paul Auster – yes, the author of the novel from which…
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Palestine by Joe Sacco Review
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Written and illustrated by: Joe Sacco Between 1991 and 1992, journalist Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestine, a work of graphic non-fiction, chronicles his interviews with those persecuted under Israel’s first Intifada. Palestine emphasises the plight of the Palestinians on an individual scale, something that…
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The Tumor Graphic Novel Review
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2008 Written and illustrated by: Ben Jelter Dejected underachiever Greg lives alone, routinely belittled by his mother and working a dead-end job. Seemingly Greg’s predicament could not get any worse when he discovers a rapidly expanding tumour on his neck. However, the tumour soon detaches itself from him and begins to grow and assume the…