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Finding an Alternate Route

Finding an Alternate Route

So, who are the people in your neighborhood?  Personally, hearing this phrase brings up the memory of Bob McGrath singing as he took a stroll down Sesame Street.  Along his stroll he would greet various Anything Muppets, each of whose occupation was identifiable by...

No Regrets

No Regrets

Ain't No Grave #5 Image Comics Written By: Skottie YoungArt By: Jorge CoronaColoring By: Jean-Francois BeaulieLettering, Design & Logo By: Nate Piekos Death is only the beginning according to the antagonist of The Mummy films.  However, that doesn’t explain...

GET DOWN ON IT

GET DOWN ON IT

Duck and Cover #1Melodrama Dark Horse Comics Writer: Scott SnyderArt: Rafael AlbuquerqueColors: Marcelo MaioloLetters: Bernardo Brice & RAD The world of therapy often uses the word FEAR as an acronym for the phrase “False Evidence Appearing Real”.  And while...

INERT OBJECTS

INERT OBJECTS

Standstill #1 Image Comics Story & Color: Lee LoughridgeArt: Andrew RobinsonDesign & Lettering: Rob Tweedie Although Sir Isaac Newton’s studies are generally only attached to the world of applied sciences, his research revolving around the world of motion...

Making Exceptions

Making Exceptions

Over 60 years ago Marvel Comics exposed the world to a superhero “team” from writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby that, if the team’s founder’s ideology is accurate, should never have needed to exist.  With it’s opening page, Uncanny X-Men #700 summarizes and...

A Considerable Gap

A Considerable Gap

As issue #2 of Boom Studios Uncanny Valley opens Oliver is still attempting to come to grips with the lunacy that has been introduced into his life. We catch up with him as he plays catch up with his newly discovered grandfather, Pecos Peet. A pit stop in a diner...

When A Tangle-Web Spider Weaves

When A Tangle-Web Spider Weaves

This week's list of Marvel Comics releases included four by the eight legged league. Of those comics, Spectacular Spider-Men is the only title whose description specifically states the adventure entails more than one Spider. The three others initially appear to be...

The Devils In The Day Job

The Devils In The Day Job

The title of Dark Horse Comics new series would be good as a mantra or a mission statement. Even a memoir, given the medium, since I'm working off the idea that Cullen Bunn has a hidden message in these hysterical pages. Then again, having growing up in a world where...

Your MOVE

Your MOVE

What do you do when everyone is leaving planet Earth on jet planes, without any plans to come back again? Ghost Machine Comics UNNAMED man behind the iron mask remembers his father refusing to cheat the land. But once their farm burns down, by his father's hand, his...