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Title: Pixu: The Mark of Evil

Publisher: Dark Horse

Creators Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon

[Rating 3/5]

Review by: Thomas Braaksma

The genre of horror can be a difficult task for a writer and artist to tackle. The major obstacle is how the artist presents what the writer is trying to bring to the audience through just panels, pictures and dialogue. In movies, the director has sound and the element of surprise to use in his manipulation of the audience, but the artist has just his pictures and the writer’s words to haunt his audience. This obstacle, which sometimes can be triumphantly overcome (The Walking Dead), seems too great of a task for this Eisner Award-winning team of writers and artists with their new graphic novel Pixu: The Mark of Evil. (more…)

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Product: Umbrella Academy 6-Figure Set

Website: www.darkhorse.com

MSRP: $39.99

Review by: Bill Jones

The Umbrella Academy 6-Figure Set finds its greatest successes in staying true to the source material of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba, which isn’t always the case with the inevitable merchandise tie-ins to comics. And while there are a few glaring problems, they are heartily outweighed by the positives.

The set comprises Spaceboy, The Kraken, The Rumor, The Séance, The Boy and The White Violin. The scale of the figures is immediately noticeable. While they are all relatively small, they range from 5 inches (the behemoth Spaceboy) down to 2 inches for The Boy, while the rest fall somewhere in the middle around the 4-inch mark. (more…)

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Title: Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite

Writer: Gerard Way

Artist: Gabriel Ba

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Rating:

Review by: Bill Jones

Umbrella Academy’s debut trade, Apocalypse Suite, opens with wrestler “Tusslin’ Tom” Gurney winning a championship belt. He does so by dropping an atomic flying elbow on a space squid from Rigel X-9. And the scene is set for the wackiness that is the creation of My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá (Casanova). (more…)

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