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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 Sandman Universe #1 DC Comics, August 2018 Writer: Neil Gaiman We were unapologetically unhappy with Neil Gaiman’s leisurely effort on The Sandman Overture back in 2015. We are very pleased to say that this new title, The Sandman Universe, is a correction in course. American horror/fantasy imprint Vertigo Comics was a commercial success mostly … Read more
From 1981 to 1983, veteran comic book writer Roy Thomas was the driving force behind a title called All-Star Squadron, set in 1942. Mr Thomas grew up in the 1940s and used now out-of-date idioms so as to accentuate the time period. The characters’ colloquial speech, hairstyles, dress, and attitudes towards both women and minorities … Read more
Action Comics #1000 DC Comics, June 2018 Writers: Dan Jurgens Peter J. Tomasi Marv Wolfman Geoff Johns and Richard Donner Scott Snyder Tom King Louise Simonson Paul Dini Brad Meltzer Brian Michael Bendis Superman is an American icon, and this milestone issue, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the character’s creation, is (almost) all about … Read more