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November 14, 2025 1:12 pm

Furryphobia (review)

DG Stewart October 13, 2025 No Comments

Writers: TC Robinson and Lily Edwards Artist: TC Robinson Colourist: Lily Edwards Independently published, 2025 When we received this title for review, we were expecting a children’s comic. It is anything but. Furryphobia is a schlock horror short comic which has integrated surreal elements and black humour to add to the eeriness. Here is the promotional copy: The updated version of a 24 page horror comic, made to be a quick read with funny visuals (no character drama just KILLER FURRIES). Combining Small Town horror with a furry uprising. Inspired by Five night at Freddie’s, Angel Hare & 90s Slashers ! Created by Us, TC Robinson & Lily Edwards, two Comic art Graduates based in Leeds. Beginning our careers with this very kickstarter, so help out where you can. What’s the story you may ask ?! It’s simple ! After her grandchild dies by the hands of killer furries, an

DC KO #1 (review)

DG Stewart October 13, 2025 No Comments

Writer: Scott Snyder Artists: Javi Fernandez / Xermanico Colourist: Alejandro Sanchez DC Comics, December 2025 For decades, fans of the American superhero genre have loved watching heroes fight each other. It never used to be like that. Prior to 1980, the closest we ever saw to those sorts of green-on-green battles were Justice League of America #179-180 (1980) where the male members of the Justice League are mind-controlled by a villainess called The Satin Satan to fight their female colleagues (plus Supergirl), and 1985’s Secret Wars by Marvel Comics, where the mutant do-gooders the X-Men were regarded as a third force in the fight between the publisher’s mainstay superheroes (the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and some add-ons) against a chaotic and misaligned bunch of supervillains. That all changed in 1986 with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and its crescendo of Batman (with the assistance of Green Arrow) fighting Superman.