Graphic Novels
Shock Shop – Cullen Bunn, Danny Luckert, Leila Leiz,Bill Crabtree, Nate Piekos (Dark Horse)
Following in the blood-soaked footsteps of The Cryptkeeper and The Mistress Of The Dark herself Elvira, is the insatiable Desdaemona Nimue Moreau, the newest ghost host with the most from creator Cullen Bunn. Given it’s…
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Dead Mall – Adam Cesare, David Stoll, Justin Birch (Dark Horse)
If you’ve ever seen Dawn Of The Dead or Stranger Things or any number of horror movies that are set in a shopping mall, then you’ll be aware of their natural predisposition as the perfect…
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Where Monsters Lie – Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski, Joshua Reed & Vladimir Popov (Dark Horse Comics)
Monsters, mayhem and madness are, to coin an often overused phrase, like a four colour red rag to my comic devouring bull. If a book has one or more of them, I will, much like…
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Project Monarch – Michael Avon Oeming & Victor Santos (Dark Horse Comics)
By the end of the first chapter of Project Monarch, you’ll feel as though your mind has been splintered into a thousand different pieces and projected through the Lewis Carroll’s infamous looking glass, by the…
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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Secret of Chesbro House & Others – Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Olivier Vatine, Shawn McManus, Mark Laszlo, Gabriel Hernandez Walter & Dave Stewart (Dark Horse Comics)
Imagine a world where the classic portmanteau films of yesteryear were still a thing, where pulp horror anthologies and the fantastical televisual tales dreamt up by Rod Serling still took centre stage and continued to…
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Minor Threats – Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring & Nate Piekos (Dark Horse Comics)
Bad guys as it turns out, don’t actually have all the fun. In fact, in the superhero community, if you’re way, way down the pecking order, being a supervillain is about as much fun as…
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Castle Full Of Blackbirds – Mike Mignola, Angela Slatter, Valeria Burzo & Michelle Madsen (Dark Horse Comics)
I can’t be the only person in the room who always fixates on that strange old nursery rhyme about baking and pies whenever he hears the word blackbird, can I? At least I hope I’m…
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Young Hellboy: Assault On Castle Death – Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Craig Rousseau & Chris O’Halloran (Dark Horse Comics)
Moving can be hard on the soul and psyche no matter how old you are, but when you’re on the cusp of adolescence, it can seem like the end of the world. Having been forced…
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Quick Stops: Anecdotes From The Annals Of The Askewniverse – Kevin Smith, Jeremy Simser, Phillip Hester, Ande Parks, Tango & Ahmed Raafat (Dark Horse Comics)
First things first, let’s get the disclaimer out of the way. If you’re not down with Dante and Randal, haven’t damn near peed yourself laughing at Jay and Silent Bob and don’t know who Holden…
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Frankenstein: New World – Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Thomas Sniegoski, Peter Bergting & Michelle Madsen (Dark Horse Books)
As I slowly absorbed Mignola, Golden and Sniegoski’s story word by word and poured over every panel in an attempt to make the book last as long as possible, in my mind, all I could…
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Night of the Ghoul – Scott Snyder & Francesco Francavilla (Dark Horse Books / ComiXology Originals)
The name of the book makes it sound kind of like a Vincent Price movie from the fifties doesn’t it? And if that had been the well worn Corman-esque path that Snyder and Francavilla had…
