Author Archives: Matthew Garcia

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Illustrated Points #1: Star Wars: Bloodline

By | May 10, 2017 | Comics

Welcome to the inaugural edition of our new feature, “Illustrated Points!” My plan for these is to do illustrated reviews of books and movies, essays, and anecdotes. Hopefully, we’ll even attract some guest cartoonists sooner or later! To kick it off, here’s a review of Claudia Gray’s Star Wars novel, Bloodline (2016), a prequel to Star Wars Episode VII: […]

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“666 Bistro”

By | May 2, 2017 | Reviews

“666 Bistro” is essentially one giant chase comic. It mostly centers around a washed up demon warlord named Archvold who is trying to deliver a hunk of meat to her friend’s newly opened café in Dis. And . . . that’s about all it has going on in terms of plot. However, what it lacks […]

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“Savage Highway”

By | Apr 21, 2017 | Reviews

Adapted from a 1976 French science fiction novel, “Savage Highway” puts the wasteland on the road. But this is no Mad Max: Fury Road. It may very well be one of the most generic and regressive views of the post-apocalypse to come out in quite some time. Written by Mathieu Masmondet and Julia Verlanger Illustrated […]

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“Heavenly Blues” #1 [Advance]

By | Apr 18, 2017 | Reviews

It’s so easy for a creative team who work well together to fall into a trap of repeating themselves ad nauseam. While knowing each other other’s strengths and weaknesses undoubtedly helps boost the former and diminish the latter, far too often we see creative teams start to get too comfortable with each other. Their projects become […]

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Reader Poll: Who is the Quintessential Wonder Woman Writer?

By , , , and | Apr 14, 2017 | Reader Poll

Earlier this week, Greg Rucka confirmed that he is departing “Wonder Woman” with issue #25, wrapping up his second stint of writing Diana stories. While we are very excited about his (albeit temporary) replacement, we will miss Rucka, who was undoubtedly one of the most important writers to ever write Diana. So, we started putting […]

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“Wrinkles”

By | Mar 21, 2017 | Reviews

It took nearly 10 years for Paco Roca’s album, “Wrinkles,” to be translated into English, and several more after that for it to make it Stateside. And this was following a film adaptation in 2011. Demonstrating their consistently sharp sense for finding interesting comic stories, Fantagraphics brought the story over in 2016 in a handsome […]

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