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Let’s Get Funky with AHOY’s Wrong Earth: Purple (Oh, and Some AfterShock Stuff, Too)

Will Nevin and Ian Gregory3 years ago3 years ago020 mins

If you’re wondering what Prince would be like as a comic book villain, then your long search for answers is now over. The Wrong Earth: Purple is written by Stuart Moore, drawn by Fred Harper, lettered by Rob Steen and published by AHOY Comics. Santa’s missing his list, so it’s time to go to the…

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Come on, Everybody, and Get AfterShook with These Recent #1s

Will Nevin and Ian Gregory3 years ago3 years ago021 mins

Sometimes dead is better. Especially when you’re trying to hide a trio of corpses in Dogs of London #1, written by Peter Milligan, drawn by Artecida, colored by Valentina Bianconi, lettered by Rob Steen and published by AfterShock. The only thing harder than an art heist during a monster attack is stealing gold from the…

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AfterShock’s ‘Kaiju Score’ #1 Is a Fun Mash-up of Genres, Could Do More

Ian Gregory5 years ago5 years ago05 mins

Kaiju Score #1 Writer: James Patrick, Artist: Rem Broo, Letterer: Dave Sharpe, Publisher: AfterShock Kaiju Score is true genre fiction, or maybe it’s better called genre genre fiction. The initial pitch reads like it could have come out of a random idea generator — HEIST MOVIE and KAIJU MOVIE — but James Patrick and Rem…

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