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Lucky Luke – Volume 34 – gags over plot this time…

15. May 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 34 – The Daltons; Always On The Run By Goscinny and Morris Cinebook “A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn’t happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It’s all an act, though, and it doesn’t take long for [...]

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Propaganda – Best Of April 2012

12. May 2012

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Lots of comics get reviewed here on the FPI Blog each month, and sometimes I worry that they’re not getting enough blog time, hence each month I like to do something to pick the very best of the previous month’s reviews…. A little late perhaps, but here they are: The Hunting Party By Pierre Christin [...]

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial

11. May 2012

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Called back to the USA by the frantic government, McLane and Jones discover that General Carrington has kidnapped Wally Sheridan, President of the United States! Holed up in a secret base he’s turned into a fortress, Carrington intends to put Sheridan [...]

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The Lion And The Unicorn – pretty, yet ultimately empty….

10. May 2012

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The Lion And The Unicorn – Volume Zero, Issue 1 Created by Ashram J Pure, featuring Jonny Wong, Javvy M Royle, Roland Hammed, Zack Slatter Okay, where to start? Good or bad? Let’s go with the good and get to the bad later. But if you’re after a quick summary The Lion & The Unicorn [...]

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Verity returns….

9. May 2012

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VerityFair Issue 4 By Terry Wiley IDCM I’ve waffled on plenty in the past about Terry Wiley, about his collaborations with McKinnon and Kermode, about how Sleaze Castle is something of a lost epic. (Luckily, lost no longer – see details at the end of this piece.) Well, this is VerityFair, and VerityFair is Terry [...]

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Go Team Science! Darryl Cunningham busts some myths

8. May 2012

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Science Tales: Lies, Hoaxes, and Scams By Darryl Cunningham Myriad Editions After the emotional, highly personal experiences contained within Psychiatric Tales, Darryl Cunningham turns his cartoonist’s eye to the world of science. In the process he documents the struggles of rigorous scientific method to overcome the lies, hoaxes, and scams perpetuated upon us by the [...]

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Too Much Sex & Violence #3

7. May 2012

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Too Much Sex & Violence Issue 3 Written by Rol Hirst, art by Adrian Bamforth, Kelvin Green, Stephen Prestwood, Nigel Lowry, Andrew Cheverton, Martin Eden, Chris Askham, Rob Wells, Davey Metcalfe-Carr Third issue of the series that Rol Hirst describes as: “Welcome to the northern seaside town of Fathomsby; home to retired super-heroes, monster DJs, mutant prostitutes, [...]

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Windrush Issue 1

4. May 2012

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Windrush Issue 1 By T’Sao Wei Okay, Windrush is a quality little comic, interesting genre twist, the quirky, edgy end of the superhero spectrum, rough, raw, wearing its flaws right out front. But beside those obvious flaws sits something intriguing, something good. It’s strangely formatted; hand bound A4, cotton binding up the edge, no spine. [...]

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Marrowbones..

3. May 2012

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Marrowbones Issue 1 By Eric Orchard Welcome to Marrowbones Swamp, a spookily magical sort of nowhere place of uncertain dimensions and geography. This is Eric Orchard creating something very familiarly cutesy-dark, a very Gaiman-esque twisted fairy tale of a children’s book, something that would sit well amongst the Coralines, the Courtney Crumrins, the Scarygodmothers, the [...]

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Smoo – beautiful reduction ….

2. May 2012

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Smoo Comics # 5 By Simon Moreton The first 8 pages of Smoo issue 5 practically sum up everything I love in Moreton’s work, and why it impresses me so: Cornwall. A coastal town, details, features, roads, railings, grass, more roads, more railings, houses, waves gently washing ashore, landscape, a curve of another road, and another, [...]

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The return of The Black Dossier…

1. May 2012

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Black Dossier By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout Comics Before Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill took The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to Top Shelf & Knockabout for LoEG: Century, DC Comics were responsible for putting out the third volume – LoEG: The Black Dossier. To put it [...]

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The Jikan Chronicles Book Two

30. April 2012

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The Jikan Chronicles Book Two Written by Dirk Van Dom, Chris Cronin, Matthew McLaughlin, Mark Howard Art by El Chivo, Dave Candlish, Dustin Parr, Chris Askham, cover by Dave Candlish. Jikan created by Dave Candlish First things first; this is a continuation of the story from Jikan Chronicles Book 1, as reviewed back in January [...]

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Spaceship Away – Classic Dare for you… but not for me

27. April 2012

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Spaceship Away Magazine #26 Spring 2012 Designed, compiled and produced by Rod Barzilay and Desmond Shaw Published 3 times a year, focusing on all things Dan Dare, with the majority of the articles looking back many decades, and coming in at just shy of £8 it wouldn’t be harsh to describe Spaceship Away using terms [...]

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Taking Flight

26. April 2012

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Taking Flight Issue 1 By Stephen Sutherland and Garry McLaughlin Laser Age Comics So many comic writers and artists have that one interesting superhero story they’ve always fancied telling, and it always seems to have that twist in it. So here’s a fairly standard superhero tale with a twist. This isn’t to say there’s not [...]

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Both Sides – good and bad – in Matthew Craig’s latest

25. April 2012

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Both Sides By Matthew Craig, Jack Davies and Lee Grice Produced by Matthew Craig via dictation software and a headset as he waits for his poor knackered drawing hand to recover, Both Sides is a double header, exploring the nature of heroes and villains, first through misguided youth, then through broken-hearted Iron Age blacksmith. You [...]

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