The second set of comics I want to talk about in the Horror Renaissance are from the camp of artists and writers that are not necessarily the ones that are trying to keep you up at night, afraid for you life or as my daughter so wonderfully put it “not really a before bed book” [...]

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As I stated before in my Fangoria review, there has been a real upswing in horror / terror / dark storytelling in the comic scene. I am calling this the Renaissance of the Horror comic. While I was at WWC, I got a wide sampling of artist and storytellers in this upcoming renaissance. I have [...]

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 The Honor Brigade (Spinner Rack Comics – Still well / Bowers) – Two words sum up Spinner Rack’s The Honor Brigade… Indy Fun!  As I sat with issue one in my lap and this smiley face belt buckle staring up at me (the cover) I thought this might go one of two ways.  I was [...]

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Okay, I’m not quite sure how to phrase this, without hurting the feelings of a bunch of good folks out there… I guess I will start by putting out there that I take my faith pretty seriously, so as I make the following statement, understand it is not out of any vindictiveness or irrational grumbling [...]

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The All New Booster Gold #1 (DC – Johns / Katz / Jurgens / Rapmund) – I never thought I would say this, but Booster Gold Rocks! Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz takes what is maybe the most unlikeable hero in the DC universe and makes him someone to watch. Booster is now the greatest [...]

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Annihilation: Conquest Wraith #2 (Marvel – Grillo-Marxuach / Hotz) Story: If you remember back to my review of Wraith I was a bit disappointed that we didn’t find out who the heck Wraith is. That is remedied in this issue. We open the issue techno-organic race known as the Phalanx has overrun all the Kree [...]

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First off I have to say that taking part in the IFL seminar was not my idea. The IFL’s marketing director, by name of Marie Camaya’s, idea. She’s a very nice and pretty girl who conned me into getting my ass kicked by professional fighters for two hours while someone took pictures. Secondly, keep in [...]

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I’m not supposed to have these..enjoy them while they last.

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Headlocked – (Kingston / Randy Valiente) The Markosia Enterprises webpage describes Headlocked as “a dramatic series based on the world of professional wrestling. The series focuses on Mike Hartmann, a skinny theater major and his unlikely journey to become a pro wrestler. “Basically he gets dragged to a WWE-style wrestling match and he gets caught [...]

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The Last Sin of Mark Grimm #1 (Silent Devil – McMannus / Moreno) The best thing to say about Mark Grimm is that is left me wanting more, lots more. The book itself is a hard boiled detective story with a tough as nails main character. I mean it, Mark Grimm would make Bruce Willis [...]

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One of the many people I got to talk to at Wizard World Chicago was very well spoken, well-put together artist who told me she simply goes as Spike. Spike writes and draws her own webcomic Templar, AZ . I was intrigued after she gave me the 3-minute sell and I checked it out… a [...]

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All Hell & Forbidden Fruit   Due to the Wizard World Chicago this last weekend, I was unable to get issue #38 up so here we are with the first a double week of Lowdown…  We see the Monitors watching all metahuman activity Mary Marvel and Zatanna stop Deep Six, who seems to be running [...]

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