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Off the Cape: God Hates Astronauts

By | Jul 12, 2011 | Columns

On this week’s Off the Cape, I cheat. This comic features capes, but I can promise you, Ryan Browne’s webcomic God Hates Astronauts stars superheroes quite unlike any you’ve ever seen. I was going to describe it, but that truly won’t do it justice. I’ll let Browne’s Twitter page do that for me. The worlds […]

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Off The Cape: De:TALES

By | Jul 5, 2011 | Columns

Last year, I’m sure you must have heard of a pair of brothers by the name Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon. You really should have if you didn’t. Why? Because last year, the duo came out with the phenomenal Daytripper, a meditation on stories, life and death that absolutely blew away critics everywhere (ourselves included). […]

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Off the Cape: The Sixth Gun

By | Jun 28, 2011 | Columns

This week on Off the Cape, we have a look at Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s increasingly popular but deserving of more love supernatural western thriller The Sixth Gun (say that sentence ten times fast). This Oni Press book started off strongly with an arc that, in many ways, felt like it told the primary […]

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Off The Cape: The Tooth

By | Jun 21, 2011 | Columns

After last week’s themed extravaganza, some of you probably feared that Off the Cape might falter and not give you some of the best non-cape related titles on the market. However, I am here to help put your fears at ease. In today’s installment, I’ll be looking at a recent release from the Oni camp. […]

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Off the Cape: Chester 5000

By | Jun 7, 2011 | Columns

Continuing our look at the latest slate of Top Shelf releases, today I take a look at the Victorian robot erotic comic Chester 5000 from Jess Fink. Yes, you read that correctly. Find out what I thought after the jump. Erotica is something that is difficult to tackle for both comic creators and for comic […]

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Off The Cape – Any Empire

By | May 31, 2011 | Columns

I’m sure that anyone who is a frequentor of this column probably knows who Nate Powell is. Why wouldn’t you? He won an Eisner Award for his last book on Top Shelf, Swallow Me Whole, and he even had a guest appearance in the comic book Sweet Tooth. I don’t think you need much better […]

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Off the Cape: Infinite Kung Fu

By | May 24, 2011 | Columns

Written and Illustrated by Kagan McLeod Infinite Kung Fu walks you through familiar corridors in the house of martial mayhem, but still smashes your face through walls of wonder and into rooms where kung fu is afraid to go. Catastrophe has knocked most of the world back to the middle ages – and to make […]

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Off the Cape: Ivy

By | Feb 8, 2011 | Columns

Oni Press is a name synonymous these days with great comics and graphic novels, from genre hits like the Sixth Gun to now comic classics like Scott Pilgrim Of course, one of their newest releases is Ivy, by newcomer Sarah Oleksyk, an unassuming little title that came out last week and is currently sitting in […]

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Off the Cape: Amulet Vol. 3: The Cloud Searchers

By | Jan 11, 2011 | Columns

This week on Off the Cape, I’m taking a look at the third volume of Kazu Kibuishi’s young adult series “Amulet” from Scholastic Books. This edition is called The Cloud Searchers, and has Emily and her crew pursuing a mythical city in hopes of retaking their fantastical world from its elven warlords. After two straight […]

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Off The Cape: Red Mass For Mars

By | Nov 9, 2010 | Columns

Back in January I went on a rather large “buy and read” binge with a lot of comics – specifically, all of Jonathan Hickman’s pre-Marvel work (to which I wrote a collective review post for). At the end of the page, I lamented that I couldn’t review Red Mass For Mars in total due to […]

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