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COMICS I’VE BEEN GEEKING OUT ON
by Maxi Kim August 17, 20161. Civil War II (No. 4, Sept 2016, Marvel) – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez & Justin Ponsor If your favorite comic book movie this year was Captain America: Civil…
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1. X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever (No. 3, June 2016, Marvel) – Max Bemis, Michael Walsh & Ruth Redmond Feeling old? Lost that inexpressible X that you had when you were…
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1. SuperZero (No. 3, Feb 2016, AfterShock) – Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti & Rafael De Latorre Quite easily the most entertaining new series in AfterShock Comics’ roster, Conner & Palmiotti’s…
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1. NEW MGMT / MIND MGMT (No. 1 / No. 36, Aug 2015, Dark Horse) – Matt Kindt If the nip in the October air and the imminent end of…
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1. Giant Days (No. 6, Aug 2015, BOOM! Box) – John Allison, Lissa Treiman & Whitney Cogar If there was but one saving grace in the vast arid wasteland that…
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1. Where Monsters Dwell (No. 3, Sept 2015, Marvel) – Garth Ennis, Russ Braun & Dono Sanchez Almara A Feminist twist on the vintage fantasy adventure monster genre, Ennis &…
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Figure Fantasy: An Interview with Photographer Daniel Picard
by Maxi Kim June 24, 2015Figurines and dolls have always offered anthropologists a glimpse into the more playful side of the human species’ openness to storytelling and myth making. Daniel Picard’s new book Figure…
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1. Chrononauts (No. 3, May 2015, Image) – Mark Millar, Sean Gordon Murphy & Matt Hollingsworth Mad Max meets Back to the Future, Mark Millar’s labor of love concerning “two…
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1. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (No. 4, June 2015, Marvel) – Ryan North, Erica Henderson & Rico Renzi Neck and neck with Nick Spencer’s Ant-Man, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is…
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1. Ant-Man (No. 1, Mar 2015, Marvel) – Nick Spencer, Ramon Rosanas & Jordan Boyd If the newest iteration of Ant-Man is any indication, 2015 will quickly unfold as the…
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1. ODY-C (No. 1, Nov 2014, Image) – Matt Fraction & Christian Ward Rounding out our end-of-year depository of “best of” titles is Matt Fraction & Christian Ward’s ODY-C. An…
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1. The Li’l Depressed Boy: Supposed To Be There Too (No. 1, Oct 2014, Image) – Shaun Steven Struble & Sina Grace After 18 months on hiatus, Li’l Depressed Boy…
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1. Edge of Spider-Verse (No. 2, Nov 2014, Marvel) – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez & Rico Renzi What if Peter Parker had never been bitten by a genetically engineered spider?…