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Chris Jacobs And Vertical Farming In Theory And Design

Chris Jacobs had not even a fleeting idea of what a vertical farm was when it was pitched to him. But the idea was among the concepts presented to his online marketing and communications company,...

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Reed Gunther | Issues 01, 02, 03

Finally, here is a comic book that doesn’t take itself so seriously. There is nothing snooty or pretentious about Reed Gunther, an independent series that chronicles the adventures of a dim-witted...

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Aposperos | Issue 01

The devil’s personal banker of souls is roaming the earth in Aposperos, and he’s never looked so good. For anyone who’s ever been trapped in an inescapable corner, there’s a way out, and Nikolaos...

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Devil | Issue 04

At the conclusion of Dark Horse’s Devil miniseries, we’re left with a message more of life than death. What are our goals, our aspirations? Is there a purpose to the future without love, or does love...

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Bring Diablo To iOS | An Open Letter To Blizzard Entertainment

There’s been a theme to my current Google searches for new iOS games: Games Like Diablo iOS Diablo Clones iOS Action RPGs Like Diablo iOS With that said, let’s raise the question: why doesn’t Blizzard...

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Spell Checkers | Volume 01

For anyone who’s curious about the originality of teenage witch stories, I have the answer: said originality, if it was ever there to begin with, is now long dead. We sat through the melodrama of The...

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The North County Murder Of Irene Izak: Stained By Her Blood

Dave Shampine illustrates no murder is small and no life snatched away is insignificant in The North County Murder of Irene Izak: Stained by Her Blood — and he does so with poignant brevity. Shampine...

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Sense8 | Netflix Original Series | Season 01

Sense8, the new Netflix original series, is a near masterpiece of balanced characterization in contemporary television — a fundamental element that many storytellers still struggle with (Jaime and...

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Out Of Order

Out of Order—Visionary Comics’ latest release—is a small digital volume that looks fantastic but doesn’t quite take off on a narrative level. The trouble is that nothing by the comic’s end stands out...

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Jack Parsons | The Marvel

I recently had a conversation with a friend about the current state of comic books as an artistic medium. He raised several valid points, chief among them the stagnant titles continually being churned...

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Shirtlifter | Issue 05

In the independent comics scene there are books that are good for the sake of being an independent comic, and then there are the far fewer books that are simply good. The Shirtlifter series by writer...

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Dark Shadows | Volume 01

It’s a strange television show for an eight-year-old to fall into, but I remember the first scene I ever saw in Dark Shadows vividly: Barnabas and Roger Collins were wandering around the dusty and...

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Mouse Guard: Legends Of The Guard | Issue 01

The June Alley Inn of Barkstone, a quaint town situated on the western borders of the Mouse Territories, is a charming and cozy haven where tales are told. There, all amateur bards must meet three...

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R.E.M.

Where does a reader go when a story is left without gravity? I wondered this when I finished reading the not-so-new graphic novel R.E.M. by writer Ryan Colucci and artist Zsombor Huszka. Not to be too...

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Loosely Based

Here is an interesting quote from the final psychedelic pages of Alan Moore and J.H. Williams’ Promethea: [Carl] Jung’s theories, viewed by mentor Sigmund Freud as dangerously close to occultism,...

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Buzzard | Issue 01

Eric Powell’s Buzzard is a lonely tale of dreams—dark dreams of sadness, lost life, and isolation. The story doesn’t exist in any specific time or place, though we recognize certain aspects: America’s...

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Alpha And Omega: Cry Wolf | Issue 01

The popularity of books and movies like Twilight and television shows like True Blood are at fault for a lot of the bad “horror” and “dark fantasy” material circulating throughout the market, but it’s...

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Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard | Issue 02

It’s only been three short weeks since the first installment of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard was released. But time within the walls of the June Alley Inn hasn’t stalled one bit; the tavern’s...

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Reed Gunther | Issue 04

I recently saw Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, a period film set in New York City during the Civil War. It was a wonder to look at and there has never been a performance by Daniel Day-Lewis that...

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Ned The Chainsaw Guy | Issue 01

Dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as “DMT,” is a powerful hallucinogen that occurs naturally in human biology. Its affects when ingested are drastic, said to transport the mind of the user into a...

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