Category: Shelf Spotlight
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Shelf Spotlight: DC Universe: Lazarus Planet: Alpha

Lazarus Planet: Alpha doesn’t have a great starting point for new readers or big shockwaves in DC’s first event of 2023 in this spoiler-free review.
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Shelf Spotlight: Wakanda #1

The first issue of the Black Panther series tie-in offers a nice story about Shuri, but the real heroics come in the story form of a history lesson about Wakanda.
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Shelf Spotlight: The Poet and the Flea

Using the comic strip medium to tell the stories of William Blake’s poetry blends the line between pop art and fine arts and sneaks history into supernatural thrillers.
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Shelf Spotlight: Neverlanders

Neverlanders is a fun modern spin on the Peter Pan setting without trying to reinvent the source material.
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Shelf Spotlight: The Dark Room

The Dark Room’s hunt for a cursed camera leads to a dark fantastical trip through mystical New York that offers as many chuckles and cares as scares.
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‘Cause You Had A Bad Day

King and Gerads craft a story of Riddler’s criminology change in the first of 8 issues featuring Gotham’s villains for this week’s shelf spotlight.
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Magic Powder

Magic Powder, described as “Grand Theft Auto meets Dungeons and Dragons”, is exactly the gritty urban take on fairy tales that indie comics thrive on.