This week in Comics we got two big Number One’s beginning: Marvel’s X-Men (with an all woman team!) and Vertigo’s The Wake. While I’ve had a long time break up with Marvel until late, I was pretty excited to hear about the new X-Men book (I actually didn’t hear it was an all women team until…
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Gunnerkigg Court is the long-running story of a young woman and her close friends discovering their boarding school is much, much more than it seems. Quiet, polite Antimony Carver begins her first-year studies at the eponymous court and begins to notice the strange goings on and begins to investigate despite the obstacle of the tight-lipped…
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The Fox Sister is a supernatural folktale-thriller in progress that is based in Korean myth and history. In 1961, Cho Yun Hee was a young girl when she found her family being devoured by the nine-tailed fox spirit, a shape shifting demoness. Narrowly escaping being devoured herself, she discovered to her horror that the spirit…
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Today’s comic is a historical dark comedy telling the story of a Prohibition speakeasy that has fallen on hard times and the tenacious and shady crew of oddballs that runs it. It is at times hilarious and silly and other times tragic and bloody, and the cast of this story are adorable and expressive cats. Fluffy cats,…
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Because I had written about Girl Genius and Dresden Codak in the previous weeks, I now have MAD SCIENCE on the brain. Specifically, mad scientists of the female variety, which brings me to the now classic daily webcomic Narbonic. Narbonic is the story of Dave Davenport, a chain-smoking recent graduate in Computer Sciences who lands a…
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Gonna Geek is pleased to present your first look at the hotly anticipated X-Men #1! Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey, Rogue & Psylocke redefine what it means to be a Child of the Atom in X-Men #1, kicking off the all-new ongoing series by the blockbuster creative team of writer Brian Wood (Ultimate…
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The sporadic but nigh incomparably beautiful Dresden Codak does not have much in the way of a total page count per se, but each long form page is so richly layered and detailed that I often spend additional time enjoying, devouring and analyzing each page. With a large cast and a surreal sense of humor,…
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Back when Superior Spider-Man was announced fans knew that Peter Parker would no longer be behind the infamous mask. There was a ton of speculation as to who the new Spidey would be. Some guesses were a returning Ben Riley, Parker clone Kaine, or even possibly Eddie Brock would assume the mantle of Spider-Man. One dark horse…
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I spent some time when I began this column trying to set a limit when a webcomic would become “too big” to recommend. Too many daily hits? Too many spin off projects? A massive video game convention held in its name? I quickly realized that if I thought that anyone’s life would somehow be less…
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Gonna Geek is pleased to present your first look at Cable & X-Force #8, from the critically acclaimed creative team of writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Salvador Larroca! After releasing an intergalactic war criminal from the Raft in an attempt to avoid the death of six million people, Cable and his team rush off into…
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