Apr 15 2016
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Monstress is a comic-book series where incredibly messed-up things happen. We’re talking child slavery, lynchings…
Apr 10 2016
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The Fix starts with a great high-concept opening: the march of technology has made reliable, old-school, brute force…
Mar 30 2016
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People hate Superman because he’s an alien. The X-Men get giant robots sicced on them because they’re mutants.…
Jan 24 2016
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Rock and roll and science are commonly thought of as polar opposites: one sexy and dangerous, the other nerdy and…
Dec 21 2015
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The idea of a Superman-like figure dropping into the ‘real’ world—more like ours, in that it’s not filled with…
Nov 23 2015
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Everybody has a little bit of caged, writhing terribleness inside of them, frightening for what it can reveal about…
Nov 16 2015
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“And how come you ain’t dead?” “‘Cause God’s a fucking asshole, that’s why.” Sunday school, this is not.
Nov 2 2015
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Cops work with facts. Evidence comes from things they can see, feel, and hear. But Detective Rowan Black has a foot…
Oct 26 2015
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When it started two years ago, Sex Criminals seemed like it was going to be a crime caper comic with a lot of…
Sep 15 2015
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Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change…
Aug 17 2015
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I never thought a comic book would make me feel sorry for Katy Perry. But The Wicked + The Divine generated some…
Jul 28 2015
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Do you miss Angel? You remember it, right? The Buffy spinoff where the hunky vampire-with-a-soul was a PI who worked…
Jul 6 2015
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We don’t know why the United States Canada are at war in We Stand on Guard #1. But it sure seems like America is the…
Jun 11 2015
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I’ve been taking Saga for granted. Some of you have been taking Saga for granted. Let’s not do that. This comic book…
May 28 2015
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Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. Imagine the universe of Mass…
Jan 19 2015
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Todd McFarlane's demonic anti-hero comic Spawn is reaching its anniversary #250 issue this month and Image is not…
Jan 23 2014
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Sure, you know about Alan Moore's must-read work on Watchmen, From Hell or Swamp Thing. But one of his earliest…
Dec 31 2013
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2013's pretty much over and, boy, was it ever a great year for comics. Here's what I and other Kotaku staffers loved…
Nov 1 2013
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When’s the right time for a kid to learn how to shoot a sniper rifle? What’s your kid up to when you’re not…
Oct 22 2013
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