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REVIEW: ‘Bloodshot: Reborn #17′ is a Pyrrhic Victory!
Bloodshot: Reborn #17 is the concluding chapter of the Bloodshot Island arc, where the so-called Bloodshot Corps has to be tested to its limits by the main antagonist named Deathmate. Writer Jeff Lemire divides this finale into...
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REVIEW: ‘Wayward #16′ is NOT a lost in translation
Internationalist scholar and Irish intellectual Benedict Andersen mentions of the connectivity of every culture around the world, despite its outer differential facades. The creative minds behind the phenom indie series WAYWARD...
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REVIEW: Take your meds with ‘Surgeon X #1′
The main reason I pick up Surgeon X #1 is the fact that Karen Berger‘s name appears in the cover. For the uninitiated, Ms. Berger served as Vertigo’s top editor because she stepped down in 2012 and she was one of th...
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REVIEW: ‘Seven to Eternity #1′ is a no choice and a must get!
Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña team up for another emotional roller-coaster experience in their new series, SEVEN TO ETERNITY #1. In this premier issue, it has thirty-four pages of pure Remender-Opeña collaborative visual initi...
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REVIEW: ‘The Maxx: Maxximized #35′ explains why Maxx matters
The Maxx series started in 1993 in the newly established Image Comics. It was created by Sam Keith, the first artist of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman saga, and cover artist of several Marvel Comics Presents in the early 1990s...
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REVIEW: Mysteries reveal in ‘Rachel Rising Omnibus’
Comic book artist and creator, Terry Moore, just finished his independent created work, Rachel Rising; and upon a couple of months later, a collected complete edition is released by his own studio, Abstract Studio. New readers ...
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REVIEW: ‘Batman: Knightfall Omnubus Vol. 1′ presents the Decline and Fall… and Rise again
KNIGHTFALL says it all: the descent of the crusader. It is considered one of the most important Batman events ever, so crucial it managed to influence Christopher Nolan to put three of its most significant aspects in his Batman...
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REVIEW: Behold the Excalibur in ‘Skybourne #1′
The best thing about independent comic creations is that the creators can do whatever they want, alongside with their top-of-the-line artistic executions. This is the case of Frank Cho‘s new independent comic series, SKYB...
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REVIEW: ‘Silver Surfer #6′ is still feeling alienated
Two hundred issues ago, Silver Surfer flew his first issue in the 1970s. Two hundred issues later, the former herald of world eating entity Galactus celebrates with a BANG! Why so? Okay, Dan Slott, Mike Allred and Laura Allred ...
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REVIEW: The prices of war in ‘Saga #37′
Let’s put it this way, SAGA #37 begins with a drooling and snoring lady and ends with a big hungry family. It fulfills the teaser of a war in all places: the comet. In the minds of the creative team, war can be told witho...