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Reading Pile: Wonder Woman Dead Earth HC
If you've read and enjoyed Daniel Warren Johnson's Murder Falcon (and you should have) then you'll like this series. And if you haven't...

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Jan 13, 20222 min read
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Reading Pile: Doctor Dinosaur's Time Travel Through The Back Door HC
It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that Dr.Dinosaur from Atomic Robo is one of my favorite characters, so I shouldn't...

Trusty Henchman
Dec 30, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Not Drunk Enough Vol 1 & 2
Jen Van Meter's quote on the cover above captures this series perfectly as Tess Stone does an amazing balancing act with this dark comedy...

Trusty Henchman
Dec 23, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Dial H For Hero TP Vol 1 & 2 (2019)
I've had a rough relationship with DC for the past ten years, both as a fan and as a former retailer. In general I've mostly taken my...

Trusty Henchman
Dec 16, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: ShortBox: a box full of fun and fine indie comics
I normally wouldn't try a Kickstarter grab bag of various styles like this, at least not for the $70 price tag ($47 for the books, the...

Trusty Henchman
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Proctor Valley Road TP & The Professor's Daughter GN
Sometimes there's a new Grant Morrison book where you have to wonder why they decided to make something so relatively normal. Partially...

Trusty Henchman
Dec 2, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Friday Book One: The First Day of Christmas TP & The Lost Sunday HC
Friday is originally published online over at Panel Syndicate, but I suck at reading comics online so I was really glad to see this...

Trusty Henchman
Nov 25, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Rufus Marigold
Rufus Marigold is sort of a melting pot of various sensibilities. Its tone often feels like it's channeling the self-loathing and dread...

Trusty Henchman
Nov 18, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Thirsty Mermaids HC
Kat Leyh's Snapdragon was one of my favorite comics to come out over the past few years, and Thirsty Mermaids hits the same high mark for...

Trusty Henchman
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: White Ash TP Vol 1
White Ash was something I meant to check out a couple years back as it was being released, but well, I meant to check out a lot of things...

Trusty Henchman
Nov 4, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Arise, Ye Skeleton King Book 1
I Kickstarted this project for a few reasons, but key among them was that it's co-written by the co-creator of Atomic Robo, Brian...

Trusty Henchman
Oct 28, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Remina HC
I tend to enjoy Junji Ito books more when they're shorter stories as I digest his works as if they were just fever nightmares that he's...

Trusty Henchman
Oct 14, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
This is a bit of an odd recommendation as this isn't a comic or webcomic, but instead a collection of various artifacts that are all part...

Trusty Henchman
Oct 7, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Paranormal: Death Strikes At Midnight
Sometimes I read a book that I realize I would have loved back in the early 2000s, but for various reasons it just doesn't hit me the...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 30, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Ran and the Gray World Vol 1-5 & Tribes of Kai HC
Reading reviews of this online is kind of a hoot because of how divided they are, and for understandable reasons. On one hand the series...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 23, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: Lavender Jack
I really enjoyed Dan Schkade's work on the series San Hannibal, but I only just now stumbled on this webtoon series of his that's a good...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 16, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Queen of the Sea GN
I love Dylan Meconis' work, so I was already expecting to enjoy Queen of the Sea. I absolutely love it though when you pick up a book and...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 14, 20213 min read
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Reading Pile: We'll Soon Be Home Again GN
We'll Soon be Home Again collects the testimonies of six holocaust survivors and their childhood experiences during their time in the...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 9, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits GN HC
I really enjoyed Vera Greentea's Grimoire Noir, so when this popped up on Kickstarter and I saw Laura Müller's beautiful art I figured I...

Trusty Henchman
Sep 7, 20212 min read
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Reading Pile: Cold Blood Samurai TP
Cold Blood Samurai was sort of an indy gem when it popped up in late 2019 as the first issues garnered some solid online reviews....

Trusty Henchman
Sep 2, 20212 min read
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