REVIEW: Concrete Jungle #1 doesn't quite click...yet

By T.W. Worn — In 1996, Mojo Records released one of the most quintessential albums of my lifetime; Turn the Radio Off by Reel Big Fish. The Ska Punk album that defined a generation as well as set the tone for 3rd and post-3rd wave ska for the next 20 years. The opening track, Sell Out, is a tale about a fast food worker turned music star but slowly starts to realize they didn't get signed to a label to be artists. They got bagged and tagged by a record label to sell an MTV style package of stardom. I bring up this album for two reasons.

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It Eats What Feeds It #1 - REVIEW - Scout Comics

By Mike Donachie — A young man arriving at a big, spooky house to work as a handyman for an older lady sounds like somebody combined the tropes of horror movies and adult films. But, if you let yourself get a few pages into It Eats What Feeds It, this book will seduce you, much like what happens to its protagonist.

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Canopus #3 REVIEW - You are not ready

By Wesley Messer — I went into Canopus knowing little to nothing about it. I’d seen some preview images here and there out of context, and that’s it. The neat part is that the small amount I saw, simply did not prepare me for the experience of actually reading this title. This book is deceptively simple: it’s about Helen Sterling and her robot companion Arther exploring an unknown planet. As you go from the first issue to now, this third issue is where the mind-bending but fascinating journey takes a whole new dimension.

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REVIEW: Space thriller Canopus #1 is ‘really brilliant work’

By Jarred A. Luján — Dr. Helen Sterling wakes up on a lifeless planet orbiting the star Canopus, which is 300 light years away from Earth. She has a ship that is missing parts, a childlike robot, and no memory of how or why she is there. This is the starting point for the excellent new sci-fi thriller Canopus #1, which is written and illustrated by Dave Chisholm and published by Scout Comics.

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