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Ryan Ferrier and Valentin Roman supplied three very funny volumes of D4VE, a world where robots have replaced humans. Great imagination and fantastic designs. @idwpublishing.com are releasing the first book in their classic line next year.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Ryan Ferrier and Valentin Roman supplied three very funny volumes of D4VE, a world where robots have replaced humans. Great imagination and fantastic designs. @idwpublishing.com are releasing the first book in their classic line next year.
theslingsandarrows.com/d4ve/
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22 volumes in, and we still love Stephen Cranie's mournful Space Boy. Feeling, tragedy and technology combine. @darkhorse.com
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November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
22 volumes in, and we still love Stephen Cranie's mournful Space Boy. Feeling, tragedy and technology combine. @darkhorse.com
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Electric Life by Sander Funneman & Pete Brouwers offers an astoundingly readable summary of current thinking about the connection between electrical energy and life. "mindbending stuff" @23rdstbooks.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Electric Life by Sander Funneman & Pete Brouwers offers an astoundingly readable summary of current thinking about the connection between electrical energy and life. "mindbending stuff" @23rdstbooks.bsky.social
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Rich Koslowski's insightful and funny F.A.R.M. System returns for a sequel with Rage. "improves on a very good opening volume". @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Rich Koslowski's insightful and funny F.A.R.M. System returns for a sequel with Rage. "improves on a very good opening volume". @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
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Daisuke Igarashi very deliberately builds Children of the Sea slowly, establishing a tranquil mystery looking at life and what we don't yet know about it. Over 5 volumes it asks questions you won't find in any other graphic novel.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Daisuke Igarashi very deliberately builds Children of the Sea slowly, establishing a tranquil mystery looking at life and what we don't yet know about it. Over 5 volumes it asks questions you won't find in any other graphic novel.
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Today we look at the earliest Hulk stories in their Marvel Masterworks editions. Stan Lee! Jack Kirby! Steve Ditko! Got to be great, right? Well...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Today we look at the earliest Hulk stories in their Marvel Masterworks editions. Stan Lee! Jack Kirby! Steve Ditko! Got to be great, right? Well...
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Around a quarter of the world's population are affected by insomnia. Sleepless Planet is the result of Maureen Burdock's investigations into the causes. It's going to help a lot of folk. @psupress.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Around a quarter of the world's population are affected by insomnia. Sleepless Planet is the result of Maureen Burdock's investigations into the causes. It's going to help a lot of folk. @psupress.bsky.social
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Stephen Mooney and @stazjohnson.bsky.social turn in a great Rocketeer adventure in The Rocketeer Breaks Free. "maximum trouble and maximum thrills". @idwpublishing.com
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November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Stephen Mooney and @stazjohnson.bsky.social turn in a great Rocketeer adventure in The Rocketeer Breaks Free. "maximum trouble and maximum thrills". @idwpublishing.com
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There's a lot of lovely Cliff Chiang art in Joshua Dysart's graphic novel extrapolation of Neil Young's Greendale album.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There's a lot of lovely Cliff Chiang art in Joshua Dysart's graphic novel extrapolation of Neil Young's Greendale album.
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We've only just discovered Aaron Lopresti's Garbage Man and like it a lot. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but makes something new from them and Lopresti's art might be a career peak. @darkhorse.com
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November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We've only just discovered Aaron Lopresti's Garbage Man and like it a lot. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but makes something new from them and Lopresti's art might be a career peak. @darkhorse.com
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We'd recommend Full Tilt Boogie as "a young adult graphic novel old adults can relish". Alex De Campi pulls together the joy of SF adventure and Eduardo Ocaña draws it beautifully. @2000ad.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We'd recommend Full Tilt Boogie as "a young adult graphic novel old adults can relish". Alex De Campi pulls together the joy of SF adventure and Eduardo Ocaña draws it beautifully. @2000ad.bsky.social
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We're very taken with Florence Magnin's Emilie's Inheritance. She mixes 1920s period drama with fantasy, SF, the supernatural and mystery, all beautifully drawn. 4 albums to date from @cinebook.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We're very taken with Florence Magnin's Emilie's Inheritance. She mixes 1920s period drama with fantasy, SF, the supernatural and mystery, all beautifully drawn. 4 albums to date from @cinebook.bsky.social
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Big-Ass Sword follows a robot and his skull companion around a world devastated after war. "a pleasing and visually stimulating experience" from Andreas Butzbach. @2000ad.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Big-Ass Sword follows a robot and his skull companion around a world devastated after war. "a pleasing and visually stimulating experience" from Andreas Butzbach. @2000ad.bsky.social
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Amazing Améziane's fourth film director profile settles on Sergio Leone, letting the director narrate his own story. "anecdotal, engaging and enlightening". @comicstitan.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Amazing Améziane's fourth film director profile settles on Sergio Leone, letting the director narrate his own story. "anecdotal, engaging and enlightening". @comicstitan.bsky.social
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Rune is a joyful all-ages fantasy from Carlos Sánchez, with two volumes out now from @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social. Chiri copes with being deaf in the "real world", but it's a strength in the new world she and Dai discover.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Rune is a joyful all-ages fantasy from Carlos Sánchez, with two volumes out now from @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social. Chiri copes with being deaf in the "real world", but it's a strength in the new world she and Dai discover.
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A fourth volume of Riad Sattouf's The Arab of the Future continues to be a remarkable study of a perpetually deluded and deceitful father who now turns to malevolence. It's a stunner.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A fourth volume of Riad Sattouf's The Arab of the Future continues to be a remarkable study of a perpetually deluded and deceitful father who now turns to malevolence. It's a stunner.
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Although issued by @01firstsecond.bsky.social and featuring teenagers, Rhiannon is as finely observed as any adult drama. Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki detail a 1990s summer for Rhiannon, at 12 just finding out about life. "It’s masterful".
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October 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Although issued by @01firstsecond.bsky.social and featuring teenagers, Rhiannon is as finely observed as any adult drama. Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki detail a 1990s summer for Rhiannon, at 12 just finding out about life. "It’s masterful".
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The earliest Jonah Hex tales by John Albano, Tony DeZuniga, and Michael Fleisher are great Westerns, and all found in Weird Western Tales: Jonah Hex. Art fans are treated to some magnificent guest artists.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The earliest Jonah Hex tales by John Albano, Tony DeZuniga, and Michael Fleisher are great Westerns, and all found in Weird Western Tales: Jonah Hex. Art fans are treated to some magnificent guest artists.
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And Mankind Created the Gods is @joseph-behe.bsky.social's stunning adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s Explaining Religion. It looks at the phenomenon of religion by combining the research of non-theological disciplines. "Monumental!". @psupress.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
And Mankind Created the Gods is @joseph-behe.bsky.social's stunning adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s Explaining Religion. It looks at the phenomenon of religion by combining the research of non-theological disciplines. "Monumental!". @psupress.bsky.social
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Creative Writing With Miss Mary Mac supplies the basics of writing concisely and simply explained. Mary McInerney brings considerable teaching experience and it's beautifully illustrated by @rivkahlafille.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Creative Writing With Miss Mary Mac supplies the basics of writing concisely and simply explained. Mary McInerney brings considerable teaching experience and it's beautifully illustrated by @rivkahlafille.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social
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Joe Sacco's The Once and Future Riot distils the complex ethnic and religious tensions in a region of India's Uttar Pradesh. " a clarion call for the de-escalation of political tension the world over, lest we plunge headfirst into the abyss"
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October 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Joe Sacco's The Once and Future Riot distils the complex ethnic and religious tensions in a region of India's Uttar Pradesh. " a clarion call for the de-escalation of political tension the world over, lest we plunge headfirst into the abyss"
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Today we review another batch of Hiroya Oku's thrilling #gantz. Over five volumes there's a city massacre, dinosaurs, teen romance and armoured knights. 13 is "the best action volume of the series to date". @darkhorse.com
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October 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Today we review another batch of Hiroya Oku's thrilling #gantz. Over five volumes there's a city massacre, dinosaurs, teen romance and armoured knights. 13 is "the best action volume of the series to date". @darkhorse.com
theslingsandarrows.com/gantz-13/
theslingsandarrows.com/gantz-13/
Enormously popular from the 1980s in Japa, Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter has never been fully translated into English. @abramscomicarts.bsky.social have now begun that process via their Kana imprint. "smart, funny, well thought out and dynamically drawn".
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October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Enormously popular from the 1980s in Japa, Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter has never been fully translated into English. @abramscomicarts.bsky.social have now begun that process via their Kana imprint. "smart, funny, well thought out and dynamically drawn".
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@normkonyu.bsky.social has spooky ghost tale The Space Between the Trees released this week, building to a great ending, but we prefer his previous book Downlands, a subtle exploration of loss, grief and the unknown. @comicstitan.bsky.social
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theslingsandarrows.com/downlands/
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
@normkonyu.bsky.social has spooky ghost tale The Space Between the Trees released this week, building to a great ending, but we prefer his previous book Downlands, a subtle exploration of loss, grief and the unknown. @comicstitan.bsky.social
theslingsandarrows.com/downlands/
theslingsandarrows.com/downlands/
The Ephemerata is Carol Tyler's exploration of grief. "Tyler’s observational intelligence, artistic innovation, emotional honesty and sheer talent make this a heavyweight graphic novel that needs to be taken seriously come awards season". @fantagraphics.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Ephemerata is Carol Tyler's exploration of grief. "Tyler’s observational intelligence, artistic innovation, emotional honesty and sheer talent make this a heavyweight graphic novel that needs to be taken seriously come awards season". @fantagraphics.bsky.social