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Review: Joff Winterhart is a master at capturing the human soul in ‘Other People’

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Joff Winterhart’s Other People brings together two self-contained stories in the same volume, joined by common themes and similar characters, and also Winterhart’s mastery...

Review: ‘Garlandia’ is a fully-formed and frantic fantasyland

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On one hand, Garlandia has all the charm and intimacy of the characters from which it pulls obvious influence, the Moomins — the book...

Review: Civilization works against ‘A House In The Jungle’

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In small-town situations, it can be a challenge to live as an outlier. You might be able to separate yourself from the general networking...

Review: ‘The Wolves of La Louviere’ portrays the slow pace of World War II...

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Europe Comics has carved out an interesting niche by releasing French and Belgian comics in ebook format to make them more available and affordable,...

Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...

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From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...

Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness

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In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the...

Review: Slavery exists and Vannak Anan Prum asks you to not turn away from...

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Americans are made to be well aware that the big wide world is fraught with danger. Especially for Americans. When we hear about murders,...

Review: ‘The Great North Wood’ is a magnificent meditation on hidden history

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As a meditation on man’s relationship with nature and the landscape, and the poetic ironies inherent in this relationship, The Great North Wood presents...

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN HOSTILE TAKEOVER is a SHIELD File’s Worth of PlayStation’s Peter Parker Goodness.

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We're just a few short weeks away from Marvel's Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 putting Marvel back as a major player in the console gaming...

Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence

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Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut...

Review: ‘Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles’ offers heartbreaking tenderness within the satire

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If you had told me as recently as a year ago that I would be in love with a comic about Snagglepuss not due...

Review: Fear of a white planet in ‘The Danes’

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In The Danes, Belgian cartoonist Clarke’s suspense-thriller with science fiction tones, takes an accepted apocalyptic trope, a devastating pandemic, and turns it upside down....

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