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The Customer is Always Wrong

Drawn & Quarterly

Aug 08, 2017 Comic Books Issue #61 - Grizzly Bear

The Customer is Always Wrong, Mimi Pond’s latest fictionalized memoir is, if anything, even better than Over Easy, the volume that preceded it.

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My Pretty Vampire

Fantagraphics

Aug 03, 2017 Comic Books Issue #61 - Grizzly Bear

Katie Skelly’s My Pretty Vampire is a very fresh take on the iconic bloodsuckers-Clover is something of a kept object by a brother obsessed with her, and the actual violence and gore of the book is significantly less creepy than most of the subtext.

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Jul 10, 2017 Comic Books Web Exclusive

While certainly targeting anyone nostalgic for 1980s toys and cartoons, does this crossover between the worlds of Eternia, home to He-Man, and Third Earth, home to the ThunderCats, succeed as a book for true fans? And does it succeed as a story irrespective of its IP mashup?

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Jun 09, 2017 Comic Books Web Exclusive

Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea has a lot going for it. Per usual with a Mike Mignola-verse project, the art-in this case by Gary Gianni, who also co-wrote the book with Mignola-is simply gorgeous.

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Jun 08, 2017 Comic Books Image Comics

On one level, Phonogram is a comic for the fussiest of music fans, layered with opinions about what this kind of music means, how much that band sucks or is amazing, etc. The kinds of arguments you might hear in record shops in days gone by, back when those were a thing.

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Boundless

Drawn & Quarterly

Jun 05, 2017 Comic Books Issue #60 - Father John Misty

A sitcom-porno that lasted half a season in the mid-‘90s. A movie whose cast-members seem cursed to die deaths strikingly similar to those of their characters, and the woman who uses their demises to chronicle her relationships.

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Jun 02, 2017 Comic Books Issue #60 - Father John Misty

A tight little tale of ghosts that’s less superheroics than horror mixed with plain ol’ heroics.

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One More Year

Fantagraphics

Jun 01, 2017 Comic Books Issue #60 - Father John Misty

We’ve sung the praises of Simon Hanselmann and his cringe-worthy creations, Meg and Mogg, before.

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May 31, 2017 Comic Books Issue #60 - Father John Misty

Erik Kriek’s adaptation of five murder ballads, In the Pines is the rare graphic novel that comes with its own implied soundtrack.

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