June 27, 2025 11:04 am

Lost in the Shuffle #2 (review)

Creator: Alex M Clark Independently published, 2025 When we last left our protagonists Quinn and Morgan, as described in our review mid-last year of Lost in the Shuffle #1 (Lost in the Shuffle #1 (review) – World Comic Book Review ), they were in very big trouble and on the run, trying to evade both the police and gangsters. Lost in the Shuffle #2 carries on with the adventure. With a blown tyre, the two are compelled to seek the assistance of a seedy, shotgun-wielding farmer who inhabits a remote house lost in cornfields. Their rescuer inevitably fulfils the stereotype of a country hick with the darkest of secrets. Despite this, the set-up is more suggestive (the loud bump by the “dog” in the basement, the manacles in the foreground of a panel) than completely obvious: it is not certain at all that Quinn and Morgan are going to end

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The Cull (volume 1) (review)

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Mattia de Iulius Image Comics, April 2024 Beachside caves in fiction are dangerous places harbouring strange inhabitants. Homer warned us about this in The Odyssey, when Odysseus and his crew stupidly thought the smorgasbord in the dark cave was altruistically left for them. Two and a half thousand years of storytelling later, in The Cull, five high school students named Cleo, Wade, Will, Lux, and Kaitie decide to film a motion picture on the beach and wander into a littoral cave, and they encounter much more than they were expecting. Here is Image Comics’ promotional pitch for this collected volume, published last year (somehow, we missed it): Eisner-winning writer KELLY THOMPSON (BLACK CLOAK) and superstar artist MATTIA DE IULIS (Captain America) team up for their first creator-owned work togetherSomething is Killing the Children horror vibes mix with The Goonies-style adventure as five friends set off to

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Miss Morpho #1 (review)

Writer: Bryan Swann Artist: Joseph Arnold Bare Bones Conics, June 2025 This title, Miss Morpho #1, reminds us of an old issue of The Sandman.

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Westron #1 (review)

Writers: Shawn Macbee and Maciej “MJ” Jankowski Artists: Nicolás Nieto and Matías De Vincenzo Fandom Limb, June 2025 A new, independent title called Westron features a curious

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Carnet de Voyage (review)

Creator: Craig Thompson Faber Press, 2018 (expanded edition) This autobiographical travelogue was first written in 2004 by Craig Thomson, an American creator who had very

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Paul is Dead (review)

Writer: Paulo Baron Artist: Ernesto Carbonetti Image Comics, June 2020 The promotional copy for Paul is Dead, now five years old, reads as follows: John

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Speed Racer #0 (Review)

Writer: David Pepose Artist: Davide Tinto Mad Cave Comics, 2025 In 1966, Japanese author Tatsu Yoshida created a manga series that revolves around a teenage

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Heavy Metal Queen (review)

Author: Kevin Michael Roberts Red Line Comics November 2024 Overview Heavy Metal Queen is a sci-fi space action thriller written and illustrated by Kevin Michael

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