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Entries in Dark Horse (5)

Sin City A Dame To Kill For

Getting back into comics has been a fun journey, although a bit confusing at times.  The Final Civil Invasion Blackest Reign List “events” or what ever they’re called this week, just gives me brain ache.  Which is why I’ve tended to avoid most of the big superhero “event” stories in favour of crime comics, which on the whole feature self contained stories over a few issues.  With my new found taste for all things crime I knew it wouldn’t be long before I paid a visit to Basin City.  I looked at the series and after some thought went for the second “yarn” in Frank Millers Sin City series, A Dame To Kill For.

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Emily Is Strange

If Emily The Strange was a kid at school, it would be the cool kid behind the bike shed, collar turned up, one foot propped against the wall looking disdainfully at you over its Ray Ban sun glasses taking a long draw from a red Marlboro.

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Random Comic Selector – Werewolves on the moon vs. Vampires

Summer Sundays in England. It’s a time of lazy sun dappled afternoons in the garden. Sitting in the shade of a tree, cricket on the radio, maybe the odd cup of tea, and if you are so inclined, a comic book or 5 to read. However across every sunny summer day, the odd cloud must pass.

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Rapture #1

Take one cup of separation, a quart of angst, a pinch of Superhero Armageddon, and garnish with an ascension to recently endowed and undiscovered powers, and you have the basic recipe for Dark Horses 6 parter Rapture (and also a VERY clichéd start to a review). With a story by Taki Soma and Michael Oeming (the latter proving the art too) this new limited run tells the story of Gil Borden and Evelyn Town, two lovers at a cross roads in their relationship.

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The Escapist

I know it sounds whiny, but if you’ve never gotten a bad review before, you have no idea what a unique kind of heartbreak it is. And I’m not talking about getting constructive criticism from your seventh grade English teacher... I’m talking about a complete stranger telling other complete strangers that something you’ve been carrying inside you for months is stillborn

Maxwell Roth. The Escapists.

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