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Southland Tales: A Transmedia Experiment Gone Awry
Part I: The Prequel Saga Originally published in three smaller parts starting in May of 2006 with the final chapter being released in...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jul 4, 2021
- 6 min
Southland Tales: A Transmedia Experiment Gone Awry
Intro: A Glorious Train Wreck of Ambition & Imagination It's been a bit over twelve years since I originally saw Southland Tales, and...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Lovecraft: The Myth of Cthulhu HC
I don't really know how many more adaptations of the Call of Cthulhu I really need, but at this point for me they're more about the...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Unicorn Vampire Hunter #1 & 2
Come to think of it, doesn't it feel weird that we haven't seen unicorns to this effect more often in popular fantasy? Or maybe I just...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
Working Through The Queue: Eden (2021)
If you're in the mood for a quick and easy sci-fi piece with a positive tone (and yes, I guess do consider the extinction of humanity a...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Reading Pile: Welcome To Oddville! HC
In anticipation of the upcoming second issue of Jay Stephen's new Dwellings series, I thought I would back track a little and hit some of...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Numbercruncher HC
Si Spurrier is one of those writers that I tend to give a free pass on everything because he tends to approach his stories and characters...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 17, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: The Starr Conspiracy HC
I've loved Gimenez's artwork ever since I was exposed to it in the Metabarons, so it was incredibly depressing when he passed away in...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Jimmy's Bastards Complete Collection HC
As with most Garth Ennis indy titles, I figure most people are either going to immediately be down with whatever the project is or...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: The Okay Witch GN
The past few years have seen an explosion of great witch centric stories that have tended to lean LGTBQ+ friendly or have otherwise...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Dr. Grordbort Onslaught: Excessive Space Violence For Girls & Boys HC
"Each page of each copy of Onslaught has been laced with advanced-state inter-solar space-herpes. It's more or less the worst kind of...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Black Beetle Vol 1: No Way Out HC
The Black Beetle books never seemed to really find an audience at our shop, which was a little confounding considering Francavilla's...
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Trusty Henchman
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Sabertooth Swordsman HC
I'm about a good eight years late on this, but I don't really recall people talking much about it over the past few years so it doesn't...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Judge Dredd Trifecta HC
Dredd is one of those franchises where I feel the slight desire to try and go back and read him from the beginning, but that's 44 years...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds HC
A while back 2000AD was publishing these as single issues, reformatting them as they were originally published in the 2000AD magazine...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: My Last Summer With Cass GN
As a big fan of Mark Crilley's Akiko I generally lean towards wanting to push all of his work. The trick is that he has a pretty wide...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 18, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: The Scent of May Rain GN
This project caught my eye on Kickstarter for a few reasons, but what really drew me in is that while it's technically a superhero story...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: Chainsaw Man Vol 1
Tatsuki Fujimoto is an odd storyteller, and not for the obvious reasons. I initially read his work on the series Fire Punch, which I...
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Trusty Henchman
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Reading Pile: Ava's Demon Book One: Reborn HC
Ava's Demon is a popular webcomic that I dragged my feet on reading because A) I'm not great with webcomics and, B) I'm lazy....
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Trusty Henchman
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
Reading Pile: The Skeleton Soldier Failed to Defend the Dungeon
As I've mentioned previously, there's a looooooooot of Isekai fantasy out there these days and a lot of it is fairly derivative. The...
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