World Comic Book Review

29th April 2024

Eat the Shadow #2 (Review)

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Eat the Shadow #2 Caliber Comics, August 2018 Writer: Pierre Martinez This week we focus on a batch of high quality independent titles, in fulfilment of our ethos to support independent publishers. In August last year, we provided a very favourable review of Eat the Shadow #1. Of the triptych of stories we described in … Read more

The Resurrected #2 (Review)

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The Resurrected #2 Carnouche Productions, 2018 Writer: Christian Carnouche We have reviewed The Resurrected #1 in January year. The writer, Christian Carnouche, was kind enough to invite us to review the second issue of this entertaining, fast-paced title. Here is our critique. Harmonisation v Diversity The Resurrected is an action story based in a high … Read more

Worse Things Happen At Sea v No Place Like Space (Comparative Review)

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Worse Things Happen At Sea v No Place Like Space No-Brow Press, 2017 / Helio Press, 2017 Writer (and artist) of “Worse Things Happen At Sea: Kellie Strøm Writer (and artist) of “No Place Like Space”: Ashley Ronning When is a comic a comic? Independent publisher No Brow Press has a series of illustrated books … Read more

Tales from the Black Hiway Volume 1 (Review)

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Tales from the Black Hiway Volume 1 Atomic Werewolf Studio / Pitch Black Comics, 2018 Writer: Rick Forgus Southern Gothic, that sweaty literary offspring of the American Gothic of Poe, Lovecraft, and Hawthorne, is a horror sub-sub genre. Southern Gothic usually invokes the swampland of Louisiana, the decay of the postbellum South, the outlandishly grotesque … Read more