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Tag: Image Comics
East Of West Volume 1: The Promise – Revisited
In case you have been living under a rock since 2013 East of West has been one of the best selling indie books on the market. The dystopian western is chockfull of style and well-paced story telling that delivers substance while still making the reader desire more. Hickman and Dragotta blend the Western and Sci-Fi […]
My Top 10 Favorite Reads Of The Past 7 Years
The Family Trade #’s 1 – 2 (Advance Review)
The first thing that struck me when I opened this book, as we see the Free Republic of Thessala, a.k.a. The Float, is that both artistically and thematically, it feels very much influenced by European Comics literature. My initial impression continued as I worked myself through the next few pages, it had a very familiar […]
Hack/Slash vs. Halloween Man – Special #1 (One-Shot)
Neither Hack/Slash nor Halloween Man are properties I’m familiar with. Out of the two, however, Hack/Slash is the one I’ve wanted to check out the most so I figured this might be a good one to start with with it being a holiday one-shot and all. Jumping right in this isn’t exactly the best starting […]
Scales and Scoundrels #1
With the recent boom of sword and sorcery titles in the past few years, it seems a new release related to the subject hits the stands each week. There have certainly been many good ones; some outside the box, others more traditional but manage to put a refreshing spin on it. Unfortunately, Scales and Scoundrels […]
Bitch Planet Triple Feature Special!
I think Bitch Planet as a whole is summed up very well from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine Leandro themselves “TRIPLE FEATURE is an anthology companion to the main BITCH PLANET series, which is a dystopian, Feminist sci-fi take on exploitation genres that attempts to be both satirical and intersectional… The basic premise (of Bitch […]
Spy Seal #1
Winnebago Graveyard #1
I hate to lay such a critical hammer to something that obviously took a lot of effort to make. I really do. But with several new titles and first issues being launched every week, competition is thick. If you don’t stand out you might as well be sitting down. And while Winnebago Graveyard tries to […]
Trio Wednesday!
Kill The Minotaur begins in Crete around 1500 B.C. Here we encounter King Minos, and though we don’t see him, we learn of his son, the titular Minotaur. Fast forward to Athens, eight years later. King Minos has defeated Athens and yearly extracts a select group of Athenians to take back to Crete for reasons […]