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IAN 2. Lessons Of Darkness

By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183727 IAN now appears to be accepted with the team, although that still makes for some awkward moments as perceptions and assumptions are challenged. The team is visiting LA, and no sooner do they arrive than a massive civil disturbance erupts. Fortuitously, the team can be scrambled in […]

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LOVE And Other Weird Things

By Rich Sparks Publisher: idwpublishing.com ISBN: 9781684055791 Some of you may know Rich Sparks if you follow The New Yorker in one of its many forms, but he’s cropped up in many other places too. His cartoons are curiously odd, a little dark, acerbic and occasionally acidic. Dabbling in the slightly more unsavoury and unwholesome […]

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IAN 1. An Electric Monkey

By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183710 Artificial Intelligence seems to be rarely away from the news, and is certainly an increasingly common plot device across books, movies, TV, and comics. Have you noticed how to often it takes the form of an emerging sinister threat? This is natural, and perhaps inevitable. Could our […]

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Giant Days Volume 1

By Allison, Treiman and Cogar Publisher: Boom! Box ISBN: 9781608867899 I bloomin’ well love John Allison’s Bad Machinery strip. It’s sassy, funny, quirky, inventive and unlike anything else I’ve read. Well, until I read Giant Days. Giant Days doesn’t attempt to recreate the characters and scenarios of Bad Machinery but it does thrum with the […]

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Lady S Vol 6: A Second Of Eternity

By Aymond & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184212 If you pick up a Van Hamme book you’re guaranteed to get a smartly written thriller, whatever the genre he’s writing for. With Lady S it’s a contemporary mix of crime and espionage, suffused with twists and double-crosses.  Lady S, or Shania, is unwittingly thrown into […]

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Spit Three Times

By Davide Reviati Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN: 9781609809096 The borderline between childhood and adulthood, where responsibility for your own actions conflicts with the carefree attitudes of youth, is a difficult place to traverse. For some, it takes time to identify what path through adulthood they are going to take, especially when it’s easier to […]

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