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The Butcher of Paris #4 “Liberté” [Comic Review]
The Butcher of Paris #4 “Liberté” is the best issue in the series thus far with one remaining. It opens with a beautiful splash page where the citizens of Paris liberate their city,...
The Butcher of Paris #3: The Law of the Jungle [Comic Review]
True crime succeeds or fails based on how well it avoids exploiting the real life murders it portrays. The best true crime tends to empathize with the victims or the investigators, while analyzing the...
Everything #1 is Missing Something [Comic Review]
Mystery can be a great way to drive a story forward. Not knowing who the killers are in Scream is the perfect ingredient to spice up an already great film. It’s human nature to want to know wha...
She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #3 [Review]
She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #3 takes the reader and Luna into new territory: a first date. What started shakily last issue has developed into a fledgling relationship. Luna has a boyfriend. She and ...
She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #2 [Review]
She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #2 opens with Luna peeling paper off the wall to eat with Joan of Arc. Joan tells Luna that, “St. Michael is HAWT, but I’m super into the Duke of Alenç...
Fight Club 3, Issue One is a Resounding Return to Form [Comic Review]
Three years after the conclusion of Chuck Palahniuk’s unexpected sequel, Fight Club 2, Tyler Durden is still the only constant. Following a climax as meta as it was jarring, Fight Club 3 a...
Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #4 [Review]
Endings are hard. No one quite knows what to say at a big goodbye, whether it be the end of a relationship or a funeral. It’s equally difficult to close out a story in a satisfying way, with so...
Oursonette is the Best Part of War Bears #2 [Review]
Some writers stay in one genre for the whole career. They find what they’re good, where they excel, and stick to their strengths. Others flit between them. No one else switches genres quite as ...
Comic Review: She Could Fly #2 is Even Better than #1
Back in June, I wrote about how good the first issue of She Could Fly by Christopher Cantwell and Martín Morazzo was. If you slept on it, you missed out. With the second issue finally here, IR...