a dank and grimy scifi murder mystery, with heaps of Lovecraftian horror; a familiar but successful hybrid of Alien and Event Horizon. Cloonan does a great job with her protagonist, a prickly and standoffish ex-con out to solve the mystery of her sister's death. Alex Braith is sympathetic, but only slightly. she comes across as distinctly unlikable (and a bad sister to boot), but she's still head and shoulders above the rest of the untrustworthy, double-talking crew and passengers of the Titan-bound space rig The Southern Cross. the story becomes pretty hallucinatory the closer the ship gets to the other-dimensional threat, but the narrative remains taut and focused. I quite liked Andy Belanger's art, which makes the interior of the ship feel gloomily subterranean. his characters are drawn well; I particularly enjoyed the ship Captain, who looks like a saturnine cro-magnon with a surprisingly hip haircut hidden under his cap. Belanger's increasing use of triangles to signal otherworldly incursions was also very well done. triangles are surely the eeriest and most threatening of all the shapes!\
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I don't know if I will be continuing with the series, but I enjoyed what I've read so far.

Subtitle to the book is "A rural noir by Tim Seeley + Mike Norton"For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress must solve a brutal murder, and everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. The sell-out hit series created by NYT Bestselling author TIM SEELEY and Eisner winning artist MIKE NORTON is collected with bonus material!Collects REVIVAL 1-5 and the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY short story

Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...I'll let you know how I feel about the overall experience when I'm a few more books in....Edit - November 25th - I don't know how highly I can recommend this series, given the progression of the story after issue #20. And the odd ending (?) of the series. I'll go into details in the reviews of later volumes. Specifically Volumes 5&amp;6.

The Isles of Los Angles 2089 - Humanity is addicted to technology. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay are about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of LA and into the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo.Presenting the full run of the smash hit Tokyo Ghost by Rick Remender and Sean Murphy in this oversized hardcover, packed with extra content, variants, designs, sketches and bonus materials!Collecting: Tokyo Ghost 1-10

Local Comic Shop Day 2015 Hardcover EditionFrom the galactic core to the outer quadrants, one name strikes terror in the hearts of evil beings everywhere: The Space Riders! Sailing the cosmos in the Skullship Santa Muerte, Capitan Peligro and his fearless crew deal harsh justice to the scum of the galaxy while searching for the hidden truths of the universe! Collecting the four sold out issues of the psychedelic revenge tale from the minds of Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel, Jr!

Nameless tells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as "Nameless" who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. A massive asteroid named Xibalba — the "Place of Fear" in Mayan mythology — is on collision course with the planet Earth. If that wasn't trouble enough, the asteroid has an enormous magical symbol carved into its side and is revealed to be a fragment of our solar system's lost fifth planet, Marduk, destroyed sixty-five million years ago at the end of an epic cosmic war between the inhabitants of Marduk and immensely powerful, life-hating, extra-dimensional "gods." One of those beings is still alive, imprisoned on Xibalba, dreaming of its ultimate revenge on all that exists. When Nameless and his teammates inadvertently unleash this malignant soul-destroying intelligence, the stage is set for a nightmarish, nihilistic journey to the outer reaches of human terror.

Will Stel Caine rise from the depths to become first human in millennia to set foot on the surface of the Earth? Who is the relentless Minister of Thought on a quest to put an end to Stel's attempt to restore the light to a dying world?Collecting: Low 7-10

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/I picked up Kaptara for a multitude of reasons: (1) The liburrrrrry didn’t have Howard the Duck; (2) John Waters blurbed it; and (3) Sam hated it. Now, I don’t make a habit of requesting things Sam hates, but since he hates almost everything sometimes it happens. It also confirmed that I most definitely have the mentality of a 12-year old because I thought this was full of hardy-hars.It started on the very first page . . . \
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Between the uniforms and the “get your pump on” commentary only one thing came to mind . . . \
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So it didn’t end up being a story about an ambiguously gay duo, but I still chuckled at even non-funny things since my mind never leaves the gutter . . . \
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Turns out those asteroids are pretty bad mammajammas which cause the ship to crash on an alien planet where our MC Keith is nearly murdered by a dude named Skullthor . . . \
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Unfortunately, he’s also joined by the queen’s son . . . \
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And learns that Earth will be destroyed unless Kaptara does something about it. His reaction????\
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(ORDER THE FARKIN’ HOWARD THE DUCK ALREADY, LIBRARIAN!)Then some stuff and things happen that cause Keith to rethink things and join in on the good fight. He gets a chance to meet some of my relatives . . .  \
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And turns tricks on them when they ask for help murdering Gandalf . . . \
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Other stuff and things happen, including Weekend at Bernie’s references and an offer for a guy who looked like this . . . \
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To aid Keith’s sleep by using his “love hand” . . . . \
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Oh god. I love lowbrow humor. So you might lose a few brain cells while reading this, but come on laughing is good! It’s summertime - Lower your standards and have some fun : )

Arthur McBride's regime has fallen. His planet has been plunged into chaos, his story shrouded in mystery, until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious, hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is, and what truly happened to bring him to power.Collecting: Invisible Republic 1-5

Anarchist scientist Grant McKay has done the impossible! Using the Pillar, he has punched a hole through the barriers between dimensions, allowing travel to all possible universes. But now Grant and his team are trapped in the folds of infinity, the Pillar sending them careening through a million universes of unimaginable adventure, sanity-flaying danger and no way home...Presenting the first mind-warping chapter of the critically acclaimed sci-fi epic by superstar creative team of writer RICK REMENDER (Uncanny Avengers, Captain America) and artist MATTEO SCALERA (Secret Avengers).Collects BLACK SCIENCE #1-6.

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults. Collecting: Saga 1-6

When down-and-out alien exterminator Heath Huston stumbles upon an extraterrestrial plot to commit genocide against the human species, he must put down the bottle and resume his roll as a peacekeeper . . . as the last Fear Agent. Dark Horse is proud to present a brand new edition of the hyper-popular first volume of Fear Agent by superstar-writer Rick Remender (Uncanny Avengers) and Eisner-nominated artist Tony Moore (Deadpool).Collecting: Fear Agent 1-4

Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic. Created by Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium) and Dustin Nguyen's (Little Gotham) critically acclaimed, bestselling new science fiction series!Collecting: Descender 1-6

A wizard has appeared in present-day New York! His name is Wizord, and he's here to save us all from dark magical forces bent on our destruction. He's the best wizard of all time! Or... he's not, and he's lying to everyone, and secretly is the dark magical force, but wants to hang out in our world for a while because it's so much nicer than the hellhole he comes from. Secrets, and spells, and talking koalas - CURSE WORDS is a gonzo dark fantasy from CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Letter 44, Star Wars) and RYAN BROWNE (God Hates Astronauts). Collects Issues 1-5.

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