Back in June we reported that director M. Shawn Crahan (Slipknot) would be bringing Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s blood-soaked graphic novel, Officer Downe, to the big screen. Unfortunately, at the time, there were no plans for distribution but it would seem that has changed as Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing imprint has scooped up the rights […]
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A few years ago, we introduced a special feature called Six Sinister Questions, for which we stalked a select group of guests until they answered six of the most “sinister questions spewed from the inner bowels of hell.” This year, thanks to the encouragement of clubhouse crew member John MacLeod, we’re resurrecting the feature…and conjuring […]
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It’s a good time to be a comic book fan. While mainstream publishers DC and Marvel continue to battle it out for box office supremacy, lesser known titles are finding their own niche channels to celluloid glory…or, in the case of Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s Officer Downe, gory. We reviewed the Officer Downe graphic […]
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Some of our longtime members may recall a comic I gushed about waaaaay back in 2010 called Nancy in Hell. Or not. Either way, for the uninitiated, Nancy in Hell—and the subsequent sequel Nancy in Hell (On Earth)—was a comic mini-series published by Image Comics about a chainsaw-wielding, scene-chewing sexpot named (you guessed it) Nancy […]
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Okay, I admit it. I’m the worst weekly comics reviewer in the world. This “weekly” column has officially turned into a “monthly” column… not because there’s a lack of any interesting titles out there to cover (there are), but mostly because I’ve discovered that I like trade paperbacks better. *gasp* I know! What a horrible […]
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Paper Cuts #5: Weekly Comic Pull List
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Office supplies going to war? Check. Slacker robot superhero stuck in a dead end office job? Check. Demon slaying scarecrow whose actually the displaced spirit of an ancient warrior? Check. It’s all here in our latest, thrilling edition of PAPER CUTS!
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Paper Cuts #3: Weekly Comic Pull List
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Okay, I know. This poor column has a pretty craptacular track record but, dern’it, I’m not giving up on it yet. As such, submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society Strange Kids Club, I offer these books as being worth opening your wallet for this week.
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Revealed on a Reddit AMA (don’t ask me what that is) yesterday, writer/artist Eric Powell announced that the next story arch for his grim-faced protagonist, The Goon, may be the last one. Ever. The story, entitled “Once Upon a Hard Time,” picks up the pieces from the last arch (“An Occasion of Revenge”) and according […]
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Announced yesterday, Image Comics revealed that they’ll be publishing a brand new creator-owned series by Eric Powell (The Goon) and Tim Wiesch. Born out of “drunken conversations,” the project promises “nothing but brutality” featuring an unintimidating protagonist “driven beyond his own limitations by rage.” Wiesch adds, “When we were coming up with the story, we […]