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Reviews: Hemlock

20. June 2013

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Hemlock Issue 4 By Josceline Fenton This was one of my fave finds from 2011 (review issue 1 & 2, issue 3), and I was ever so pleased to see Fenton scoop best emerging talent at the 2012 British Comic Awards. The bad news is that it’s taken a year and a half plus to [...]

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Reviews: Blake And Mortimer – back to the very beginning

19. June 2013

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Blake & Mortimer Volume 15: The Secret of the Swordfish Part  1 – The Incredible Chase By Edgar P. Jacobs Cinebook “In a past almost, but not entirely, like ours, the world lives in dread of a new power, an empire centred in Tibet and led by a megalomaniac. When the inevitable attack comes, it [...]

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Review: Drowntown: guns, ladies, hapless PI’s and a talking panda

18. June 2013

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Drowntown Robbie Morrison, Jim Murray Jonathan Cape Part pulp noir, part sci-fi, featuring a hard and hulking PI, big guns, beautiful girls, sleek, sexy aquabikes, anthropomorphology,and much more, Drowntown could very easily have gone very wrong. I’m sure to some people that line of description will sound pretty wrong in itself. In this first of [...]

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Review: The Man Who Laughs

17. June 2013

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The Man Who Laughs Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, written by David Hine and illustrated by Mark Stafford SelfMadeHero SelfMadeHero certainly have a thing for a good adaptation, have done from the outset, when the company made its debut with the Manga Shakespeare line. Since then we’ve had excellent Holmes adaptations from Edginton [...]

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The Weekly 2000AD – Prog 1836

16. June 2013

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Cover by Leigh Gallagher, and it’s a corker. One of the best of the year I reckon. Striking, great colours, leaps off the shelves. Well, it would if my local newsagent didn’t just ram it in behind the copies of Q and Empire. Judge Dredd: Skulls – Rob Williams and Trevor Hairsine The return of [...]

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Comics: Beyond the Wire

14. June 2013

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Beyond the Wire Alys Jones Beyond the Wire is a series of illustrations, linked by a poetic set of narratives that manages to capture with the care and imagination, the terrible tragedy that were the trenches on the western front in the First World War. The book itself is a real artefact; it feels special [...]

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Review: Winter’s Knight Day One

14. June 2013

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Winter’s Knight: Day One Robert M Ball Great Beast The Great Beast, the creator-owned Indy Brit comics publisher started by Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby, has a new title out this very month, and it is a truly beautiful looking piece of work. Robert M Ball’s Winter’s Knight Day One is wonderfully, delightfully different, a [...]

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Reviews: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

13. June 2013

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci By PM Buchan and Karen Yumi Lusted, inspired by John Keats John Keats’ simple ballad of The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy is a mere 48 lines in length but offers multiple interpretations that can send the reader off every which way, but essentially there’s a knight, there’s a woman, there’s [...]

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Reviews: Phil Wire takes over Lucky Luke

12. June 2013

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Lucky Luke Volume 40: Phil Wire By Morris Cinebook In Bottleneck Gulch, there’s a saloon where the owner is a crook of the worst order. When a second saloon opens, our crook isn’t happy that someone’s selling proper whisky cheaper than his own rotgut. To get rid of the competition, he calls upon an oversized [...]

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Reviews: Porcelain

11. June 2013

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Porcelain: a Gothic Fairy Tale Benjamin Read, Chris Wildgoose Improper Books Some books you approach unknown, some you approach with the weight of everyone else’s praise weighing heavy upon your thoughts. Porcelain is the latter. I first caught wind of it before Thought Bubble 2012, then first saw the sampler comic at TB. And then got [...]

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