review

Welcome back, Supernatural. How you’ve been missed! You left us for months after a redeeming eighth season that made up for the mess Season 7 left. You even joked about it with us, letting us know it wasn’t a solo clown trip. In Season 8 you were back in fine, if frenetic, form and you let us know you meant business.

There have been some pretty ridiculous Archie comics over the years. Not just the regular ridiculous Riverdale antics, mind you, but the ones that push the boundaries of Archie’s already …
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When I was a kid, I always thought that Superman and Wonder Woman were a couple. It just makes sense, right? In my mind they were the main male …
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The standard preamble: We trust you know what Lazarus is, and you know why we like it so much. As per usual, this is commentary heavy and spoiler rich …
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Gravity is an experience. Intense, scary, emotional and above all it feels real. Alfonso Curano (Children of Men) takes the premise of similar situational films (Frozen, …
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Short stories are in short supply in most comics nowadays. Occasionally DC or Marvel will put out an anthology comic. Those’ll set you back $8, and while often well …
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Mutant bees, blood, gratuitous cheesecake, and cat sex. If this weren’t served up in the first five pages, the book wouldn’t have a right to call itself Grindhouse. It does.

This could’ve been bad. Really, really bad. In the hands of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, Sex Criminals ends up as much more than a cheap joke: it’s one of the best debuts of the year. The word that comes to mind, all the way through this book, from tone, to characters, to setting, is ‘inimitable.’

With things like WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden trial constantly in the news lately, hacking and the sharing of classified information is something that gets a lot of airtime. Hacktivity from writer …
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A zombie book without zombies could be the tagline for the young adult novel Zom-B. The story revolves around B who struggles with being a bully at school, an abusive father at home whom is teaching her how to be racist when she knows underneath being racist is wrong

Ian Doescher, a self-proclaimed lover of the Bard, re-wrote the first Star Wars film in iambic pentameter and in the style of Shakespeare’s popular plays. He rewrote classic Shakespearian passages to fit the Star Wars story. Familiar phrases and themes echo with new dimension and fresh perspective.

So, we really went a bit nuts last time around, didn’t we?

Greg Rucka and Michael Lark were both kind enough to talk about our comments with us, share …
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