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Matt Ligeti
- Sep 20, 2019
- 4 min
PROJECT: SAVIOUR, ISSUES #1-3
Cartoonist: Craig Johnson Letterer (issues #2-3): Joey Sheehan Publisher: Self-published WHAT IS IT? A very indie superhero comic that blends true-to-life and noir elements. It's like Hancock or Invincible meets Sin City. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) A meta-human vigilante chooses to stand up to a corrupt super-powered individual and the police he has on his payroll. Even though he’s trying to pry control of the city from Scyther’s villainous grasp, its denizens still th
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Matt Ligeti
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
SPENCER AND LOCKE 2, ISSUE #3
Writer: David Pepose
Art: Jorge Santiago, Jr.
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment WHAT IS IT? A PTSD-tinged noir mystery with strong dystopian Sunday funny roots. Imagine Chinatown meets Calvin & Hobbes if the main character had a lot of unresolved issues and imagined his childhood friend/stuffed animal was his partner. You can read the review for the previous issues here. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) This issue follows four separate characters and their individual, conc
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Matt Ligeti
- May 20, 2019
- 4 min
SPENCER AND LOCKE 2, ISSUE #2
Writer: David Pepose
Art: Jorge Santiago, Jr.
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment WHAT IS IT? A PTSD-tinged noir mystery with strong dystopian Sunday funny roots. Imagine Chinatown meets Calvin & Hobbes if the main character had a lot of unresolved issues and imagined his childhood friend/stuffed animal was his partner. You can read the review for the previous issue here. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) Roach Riley suffers from PTSD in much the same way as Locke does. Unlik
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Matt Ligeti
- Apr 29, 2019
- 5 min
SPENCER AND LOCKE 2, ISSUE #1
Writer: David Pepose
Art: Jorge Santiago, Jr.
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment WHAT IS IT? A PTSD-tinged noir mystery with strong dystopian Sunday funny roots. Imagine Chinatown meets Calvin & Hobbes if the main character had a lot of unresolved issues and imagined his childhood friend/stuffed animal was his partner. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) It's a short time after the end of the previous volume and, because of the events that transpired (mostly the body count), L
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Matt Ligeti
- Apr 10, 2019
- 6 min
GUN, ISSUES #1-6
Cartoonist: Jack Foster Publisher: Reckless Eyeballs Press WHAT IS IT? The first 3 issues of Gun are a complete story arc, a pulpy noir mystery. Like Smokin' Aces meets Blade Runner, except the world is a supervillain one instead of cyberpunk. Issues #4-6 are part of an arc titled Gun: Slaughterball, which is very similar to Death Race 2000 and Cannonball Run, but it takes place within the established universe with some of our known characters. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoiler
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Matt Ligeti
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
THE HIGH PRIESTESS, ISSUES #1-2
Cartoonist: Rees Finlay
Publisher: Self-Published WHAT IS IT? A noir/crime/horror 4-issue miniseries where a woman fights supernatural crimes. It's similar to the classic, gothy action film, The Crow. Also, if you've watched Constantine, there's a bit of that in there, too. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) Holly Peters died and returned to life mysteriously, with many of her old memories lost to her.
Now, she is the High Priestess. She has strange powers she's still learni
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Matt Ligeti
- Mar 14, 2019
- 3 min
HEADS!, ISSUE #1
Cartonist: Rik Jackson
Publisher: Self-Published WHAT IS IT? A noir/crime/mystery with a potential science fiction element from the mind of a single cartoonist, Rik Jackson. It's like the movie Chinatown with a surreal element. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) A man’s statue has been stolen before it was supposed to go on show at the museum. It looks like the women who stole it were wearing giant fake hands and cat heads, inexplicably. That’s only the beginning of the strang
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Matt Ligeti
- Feb 20, 2019
- 4 min
SPENCER AND LOCKE, VOL. 1
Writer: David Pepose
Art: Jorge Santiago, Jr.
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment WHAT IS IT? Half noir-ish detective story and half dysfunctional Calvin and Hobbes, it's as much a crime story as it is a man coming to terms with his tumultuous past. Imagine Chinatown, but if the main character had a lot of unresolved issues and imagined his childhood friend/stuffed animal was his partner. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) Spencer and Locke are called to the scene of a murder.
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Matt Ligeti
- Jan 14, 2019
- 4 min
STROPER, ISSUES #1-4
Cartoonist: Eddie Porter
Publisher: Self-published This review covers the first 4 issues of a 10-issue series. We don't get insight into the entire story arc, but we still get a pretty good idea of where it's going. WHAT IS IT? A retro-neo-noir (I know, it sounds crazy, but it works) about one man's revenge for wrongful imprisonment, and the events leading up to it. It's like a limited-cast Firefly meets The Count of Monte Cristo, done in a Blade Runner tone, '80s color and h
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Matt Ligeti
- Aug 3, 2018
- 4 min
BATMAN: YEAR ONE
Writer: Frank Miller Art: David Mazzucchelli Publisher: DC WHAT IS IT? Batman. Before the gadgets, just starting out. Think later than the Gotham TV show, but more down-to-earth than Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. It’s also a Commissioner Gordon comic in a really big way, as he’s just starting out on the force in Gotham City (so, in that way, it’s a little TV-show-Gotham-y). WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) This comic takes place when Bruce Wayne first decides to come ba
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