Herik Hanna & Sean Phillips' tale of sci-fi horror will fill you with tension as you follow the protagonist on his journey through a bloodied prison spaceship.
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Titan Books has performed nothing short of a vibrant homage to a hallmark story that is already legendary among British comics.
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Outside of Marvel and DC there are plenty of superhero titles right now that are virtually tailor made for jaded readers like you and me. And in this post I list twelve of them, twelve superhero comics that I’ve read to various degrees in a recent binge attempting to find ones that I found interesting.
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The best comedies, even the absurdist ones, always offer a meaningful message and at the heart of Ordinary is the message that there’s nothing at all boring or "ordinary" about being a regular human being.
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Although recently the amount of gay and lesbian characters on movies and TV have increased, comics and the comic book industry are making strides to catch up. In the past few years alone a number of monumental events took place: Northstar married his long term non-superhero boyfriend Kyle, Hulkling and …
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'Numbercruncher's storyline itself is what you might call “trippy” but nonetheless enjoyable, with mind-boggling artwork and caustically humorous narration by the pinstripe suited-character Bastard Zane.
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