Tag: image comics
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Pretty Deadly: The Rat – A Book Review
This is the third book in the Pretty Deadly series. It’s written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, drawn and inked by Emma Rios, and colored by Jordie Bellaire. If you’re unfamiliar with this series, it’s a little … hard to describe. It’s narrated to us by a skeletal rabbit and a butterfly, and it’s generally about…
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East Of West (Volume 9) – A Book Review
Author Jonathan Hickman continues to captivate with his East of West series from Image Comics. In this word, our idea of the United States has been divided up into many factions, and they all await the end of the world. The Four Horseman roam freely, and it’s only a matter of time. East of West…
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Manifest Destiny: Fortis and Invisibilia by Dingess and Roberts – A Book Review
The Manifest Destiny series continues to be perfect for those who love the comic book genre but are not fans of super heroes. Now on its sixth volume, Manifest Destiny details a fictionalized account of Lewis and Clark as they explore America’s new west. Thomas Jefferson tasked them with this exploration, but the premise is that…
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The Wild Storm: Volume I by Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt – A Book Review
The Wild Storm is a title that appears to be taking classic WildStorm characters, especially those from WildC.A.Ts, and rebooting them in a modern day, sophisticated world. WildStorm was under the umbrella of Image Comics back in the 1990s when Jim Lee and other industry luminaries decided to start their own publishing house. Jim Lee’s…
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Manifest Destiny: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia by Dingess and Roberts – A Book Review
Manifest Destiny is one of my favorite comic books running at the moment. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, Lewis and Clark are still exploring the American wilderness west of St. Louis, but in this alternate history, they are not merely mapping out the landscape and marking rivers, they are also analyzing any potential preternatural…
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East of West: Volume 7 by Hickman and Dragotta
East of West continues to be one of the most satisfying series that I’m following. Even with the seventh volume, Jonathan Hickman engages the reader with innovative plot development and surprising character development. I never know what’s coming next with this series, and that’s about the highest compliment that I can pay. If you’re unfamiliar…
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Manifest Destiny: Sasquatch by Dingess and Roberts
This is one of my favorite ongoing series, and Volume 4 entitled Sasquatch is no exception to the previously established excellence! We finally discover exactly how President Jefferson procured the skull of the Sasquatch which served as the impetus for Lewis and Clark’s true mission westward. That epiphany alone makes this book completely worth the…
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Black Magick (Volume One) by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott – A Book Review
Black Magick kept earning all sorts of praise so I finally got a copy of the first volume entitled Awakening. The premise is that Rowan Black is a tough-as-nails detective by day and a witch by night. Not the flying on the broom kind, but rather the sort who communes with nature and is able…
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Black Science: The Beginner’s Guide To Entropy by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera – A Book Review
This beautiful hardcover collects issues 1-16 of the Black Science comic book series. You may remember I reviewed a collected edition of Black Science encompassing issues 1-6 back in 2014. At the time, I loved the art, I loved the concept, I loved the colors, I just didn’t love the characters – I never felt…
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Descender: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen – A Book Review
Because this title has enjoyed great buzz, I thought I’d give it a try. Descender is a an interesting science fiction book that explores the meaning of family, humanity, consciousness, and morality. Of course, these universal topics are unfolding in a universe filled with robots, aliens, and gargantuan mechanical world destroyers. Tim-21 is an android…
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