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Bluespear – the first of the 45 continuations. Why?

23. February 2012

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Bluespear Written by Andi Ewington and Eddie Deighton, art by Cosmo White Com.X [It may be useful to have a quick look at the review of Andi Ewington's 45 book first.] Right, well, the thing is, Andi Ewington’s 45 was interesting and rather innovative down to its format and content, the idea of pulling together [...]

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The Bluecoats – Rumberley

22. February 2012

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The Bluecoats Volume 5 – Rumberley by Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil Cinebook “After an even bloodier battle than usual, the Union army is out of men. But so are the Rebels, and General Alexander decides to retreat and come back with reinforcements quickly before the enemy can do the same. To move faster, he [...]

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Vampire Free Style Issue 6

21. February 2012

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Vampire Free Style Issue 6 By Jenika Ioffreda Previous reviews: Issues 1-3, 4, 5. Initially planned as the culmination of her series, Vampire Free Style #6 is a conclusion of sorts to Jenika Iofffreda’s quirky gothic love story of magic spells, vampires, lost loves, and mysterious cats. In the past five issues we’ve met Padroncino; [...]

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Red Kingdom Rising

21. February 2012

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Red Kingdom Rising is a very intriguing new British Indy horror from Navin Dev, and one which, I am delighted to say, avoids the far too easy route some less skilled new film-makers take in creating a horror flick and thinking sudden jumps or needless splatter or sadistic torture equals genuine horror (not that I [...]

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Stool Pigeon 36 out now….

20. February 2012

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The Stool Pigeon #36 March 2012 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics and cartoons by Paul O’Connell, Lawrence Elwick, Tom Brass, Lindsay Pollock, Krent Able, JC & APK, Richard Cowdry, David Ziggy Greene, Martin Kellerman, Becky Barnicoat The latest Stool Pigeon, the free music mag with its very own comics section is out right now. As usual, I read [...]

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Dreamlike and beautiful – Toasty Cats

17. February 2012

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Toasty Cats #6 By Magda Boreysza I first caught sight of Magda Boreysza’s work with the Laika piece she did for Toasty Cats issue 1 that we featured up on the FPI blog before Christmas. That was lovely stuff, immediately impressive for its dreamlike gentleness, detailed, tight linework and heartfelt story. And her Toasty Cat [...]

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Rob Cureton…. hardly Orful:

16. February 2012

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Orful Comics By Rob Cureton The first of three comics from Rob Cureton I received, and the autobiographical Orful Comics is by far the best of them. It’s a simple enough funny autobiog style strip, that covers many of the familiar touchstones; friends, nights out, gigs, work, strips about doing strips – pretty much everything [...]

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Too Much Sex & Violence Issue 2 – back to weird and wonderful Fathomsby

15. February 2012

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Too Much Sex & Violence Issue 2 Written by Rol Hirst, art by Stephen Prestwood, Neil Cavenham, Ryan Taylor, Rob Wells, Davey Metcalfe-Carr, Tony McGee Rol Hirst describes his comic thus: “Welcome to the northern seaside town of Fathomsby; home to retired super-heroes, monster DJs, mutant prostitutes, pier-owning gangsters, disgruntled policemen and a woman who knows exactly [...]

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Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity

14. February 2012

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Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity By Dave Roman First Second Hakata Soy’s past life as the leader of a futuristic super team won¹t stay in the past! The former space hero is doing his best to keep his head down at Astronaut Academy. Things aren¹t going so great, though. The most popular girl in school has [...]

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A Girl. A Boy. But nothing like a traditional love story…

13. February 2012

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Girl And Boy Issue 1 By Andrew Tunney “My name is Girl.” “And this is my sidekick Boy.” “Together we fight crime and loneliness.” That’s the opening dialogue from Andrew Tunney’s Girl & Boy, a 36-page debut comic that takes the whole sidekick thing to the obvious conclusion. Girl meets Boy. Although in truth, there’s [...]

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Trese – more supernatural tales from Manilla….

10. February 2012

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Trese Volume 4 – Last Seen After Midnight By Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo Visprint Foul play. Magic spells. Supernatural criminals. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese. We covered Volumes 1-3 of Trese back in January 2011. And what I said there goes just as well for Volume [...]

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The House That Groaned…. groans slightly under the weight of expectation…..

9. February 2012

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The House That Groaned By Karrie Fransman Square Peg The House That Groaned is the debut graphic novel from Karrie Fransman, and she’s certainly not frightened of really going for it. No thin little volume is this, no lightweight simplistic story. No, this is heavyweight, thick, literary stuff. Deliberately so perhaps, and definitely appealing to [...]

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Vanallemeersch and Nobrow bring you a BIG Mother….

8. February 2012

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Big Mother 2 By Sam Vanallemeersch Nobrow Press I’m just not the right person to appreciate this. I’m a comics guy, and my art tastes veer strongly to the sort of art that looks great but does so in service to a story. So basically Big Mother, as an A3 collection of artwork by Belgian [...]

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The Blood Is The Life – Dracula

7. February 2012

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Dracula – The Graphic Novel By Bram Stoker, adapted by Jason Cobley and Staz Johnson Classical Comics It’s been a while since I looked at Classical Comics, way back in 2009 with the adaptations of Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest. Of which I ended with: “They may come across as worthy reads to this [...]

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Last Admin Hero – Mike Battle without Mike battle

6. February 2012

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Sgt. Mike Battle Volume 2: Last Admin Hero By Graham Pearce Pier-C Comics I’ve looked at Pearce’s Mike Battle before (here and here) and although I had reservations, I’d enjoyed it, especially the later issues where he’s beginning to find an artistic style. But with Last Admin Hero he’s reprinting issues 8-10 of Sgt. Mike [...]

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