Author Archives: Joe Skonce

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Thunderbolts_#1_featured Reviews
“Thunderbolts” #1

By | Sep 1, 2022 | Reviews

Building a good D&D party is hard work. There’s a delicate balance of skills, both in and out of combat, to ensure that you’re building an optimal team that can hold your own with any of the challenges they might face. If you have an unbalanced group, it can potentially lead to some problems. The […]

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“Ms. Marvel & Moon Knight” #1

By | Aug 18, 2022 | Reviews

There’s something that works about pairing a plucky teen hero with a dark, brooding vigilante loner. It’s the fun juxtaposition of fun enthusiasm of adolescent heroics against the jaded and world-weary life of a person who’s been doing this for a while (or, at the very least, has seen the darker side of the world.) […]

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“Survival Street” #1

By | Aug 4, 2022 | Reviews

For over 50 years, kids have learned important life lessons from the colorful and chaotic monsters and Muppets of Sesame Street. But what happens when the world has moved past the need for lessons of sharing and caring for your neighbors? Where do the puppets go? It turns out it’s the resistance. In “Survival Street” […]

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“Starhenge: Book One The Dragon and the Boar” #1

By | Jul 7, 2022 | Reviews

It’s always exciting to combine genres and see how they interact—seeing how the pirate story works in a magical sea or the western where you’re fighting off alien invaders. It allows you to test the scope of these stories, seeing how the visuals play with one another and elevate one another. Likewise, taking a legendary […]

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“Immortal X-Men” #3

By | Jun 24, 2022 | Reviews

It seems like in the lives of many a high school or college student, a crucial moment is a realization that “Utopia” means “no place.” It’s a revelation that appeals to the cynicism of that age, the idea that a perfect world is high fantasy and not an attainable reality. This often translates to putting […]

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“Orcs!: The Curse” #1

By | Jun 10, 2022 | Reviews

To the casual fantasy fan, certain traits go along with fantasy races. Dwarves are stubborn. Elves are fair. Orcs are evil, and so on. But why do we think these things? Why do we think that dwarves are stubborn? It seems like elven propaganda to me! The more interesting question is how do these creatures […]

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“Eight Billion Genies” #1

By | May 13, 2022 | Reviews

Pretty much every time you encounter the end of the world in media, there’s nothing fun about it. Sure, there might be tongue-in-cheek elements like the anachronistic music and 50’s design of the Fallout universe. Still, those are usually window dressing to the depressing shell of what society used to be. But what if the […]

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“Knights of X” #1

By | Apr 28, 2022 | Reviews

In a genre that feels so beholden to science fiction, it’s always fun to see superheroes fight the magical and mystical. While the X-Men are no strangers to the world of magic, they have had some of their most memorable adventures in the Otherworld in recent years. What sets it apart? A creative team that […]

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“We Ride Titans” #3

By | Apr 15, 2022 | Reviews

There’s something about giant freaking robots that punch one another that will always work. It’s exciting to see these behemoths move and fight, learning how these larger-than-life machines move and fight. There’s also something about giant robots that lends themselves to creating drama, whether that drama is a group of individuals who have to learn […]

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