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My Sister the Werebeast is beyond adorable and we want more! Great for kids and adults

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Something strange is happening to Peanut…

But Mira and Rosie can handle it! These two perfectly ordinary, capable sisters are fully confident they can study for their school’s upcoming combat trials and care for their adorable baby sister, Peanut. So what if she cries so hard she floods the entire house? Or randomly breathes fire? Or transforms into a (very soft) menacing creature? Mira and Rosie will just hide Peanut’s powers until their parents come back, and they’ll know what to do. Right?

To make matters worse, rumors of a werebeast attract the attention of a monster hunter. And there’s something unusual about their seemingly quiet town…

Story: Alina Tysoe
Art: Alina Tysoe

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Death to Pachuco #1 is some interesting history but doesn’t go enough into it and bounces all over

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During the summer of 1943, Los Angeles became a hotbed of tension and conflict as a series of fierce clashes erupted between U.S. Navy members and Mexican American youth stemming from the murder of Carlos Urbano. Private eye Ricardo “Ricky” Tellez needs to find the Sleep Lagoon Killer before the racist mob kills him in the Zoot Suit Riots.
The clock is ticking—and it’s a bad time to be a Mexican.

Story: Henry Barajas
Art: Rachel Merrill
Color: Lee Loughridge
Letterer: Henry Barajas

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Zeus Comics
Kindle

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Amazing X-Men #1 has interesting concepts but stilted dialogue and inconsistent art make it rough

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HOPE THEY SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE! X YEARS LATER, on the run after a deadly clash with Revelation’s chief assassin, the shattered X-Men desperately gamble everything on one last mission. With help from an unexpected ally, they venture into the haunted ruins of Graymalkin. What they find there may change everything… if they survive.

Story: Jed MacKay
Art: Mahmud Asrar
Color: Matthew Wilson
Letterer: Clayton Cowles

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Zeus Comics
Kindle

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C.O.R.T.: Children of the Round Table #2 is a hell of a lot of fun for readers of all ages

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Their homes, their families, are in danger. Can the ghosts of legendary knights train new champions in time? Will this young band of friends resist the soldiers of Mordred? Or will they be captured by a tyrant before they’ve even had a chance to be heroes?

Story: Tom Taylor
Art: Daniele Di Nicuolo
Colors: Rain Beredo
Letters: Wes Abbott

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Kindle

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Refugee: The Graphic Novel is three tales of survival but also a reminder of humanity’s failures

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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world…

ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America…

MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe…

All three kids must endure harrowing journeys. All face unimaginable dangers. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.

Story: Alan Gratz
Art: Syd Fini
Color: Neda Kazemifar
Color Flats: K Czap
Letterer: Warren Montgomery
Map Design: Jim McMahon, Greg Franco

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Mini Reviews: Marvel Knights: Punisher #1, Marian Heretic #1, Absolute Batman #13

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Marian Heretic #1

Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for.

These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations.

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Marvel Knights: Punisher #1 (Marvel) – This is an average, middle of the road Punisher story with brutal art from Dan Panosian and a phone-it-in kind of script from Jimmy Palmiotti. (I guess Garth Ennis didn’t want to come back.) The obituaries for the dead characters at the end is a fun touch and does humanize the thinly written casualties in Frank Castle’s war on crime. Marvel Knights: Punisher is guns, explosions, and minimal depth feeling more like a video game than a comic. Overall: 6.1 Verdict: Pass

Marian Heretic #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Catholicism, paganism, and nunsploitation ass kicking all blend into the engaging brew that is Tini Howard and Joe Jaro‘s new Marian Heretic series. The Witchblade/Magdalena influence is pronounced, but I love the worldbuilding that Howard does finding a middle path between the Trinitarian patriarchy of The City of Vespers and the witches in the wilds. God totally is a woman because Ariana Grande (and Kevin Smith in Dogma) said so. Jaro brings 90s-tinged art with big action and expressions, but moves the story along smoothly as the protagonist tries to comes to grips with grey areas in a black and white world. Marian Heretic #1 is religious trauma, but make it badass, and I look forward to learning more about this intense world and the women that make it tick. Overall: 8.0 Verdict: Buy

Absolute Batman #13 (DC) – Absolute Batman #13 is like the movie The Dark Knight Rises was actually good and didn’t have lame, ineffectual, pro-cop politics. Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin weave together the story of Bruce and Selina’s romantic relationship with a setup for a final showdown between Bane and Batman with venom coursing through both their veins. Dragotta’s bulkier, jacked take on Batman pays off in this story as Batman comes face to face with being the monster that Gotham needs to protect them. He and Martin continue to bring bone-shattering power and passion to the fight scenes in this issue. (And also one sex scene.) In the plot department, Snyder is skillfully connecting the story of Waylon Jones’ big boxing match in the past to the Batman/Bane battle royale raising the stakes. Overall: 8.6 Verdict: Buy

Everything Dead & Dying #2 dives into history teasing this is deeper than your average zombie story

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Despite his best efforts to cling to his fantasies, reality has landed on Jack Chandler’s doorstep…in the form of a bullet. The arrival of outsiders to Jack’s hidden oasis of a rural community forces him to confront the zombie apocalypse he has been hiding from, and pick up arms to protect his undead family.

Story: Tate Brombal
Art: Jacob Phillips
Color: Pip Martin
Letterer: Aditya Bidikar

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Zeus Comics
Kindle

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Absolute Batman #13… Selina Kyle has entered the chat as Batman prepares for his battle with Bane

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Batman’s final showdown with the monstrous Bane! Will he be able to overcome this unstoppable behemoth, or will he be trapped in Ark-M forever?!

Story: Scott Snyder
Art: Nick Dragotta
Colors: Frank Martin
Letters: Clayton Cowles

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Kindle

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Deluge #1 delivers solid horror in an interesting location with a unique concept

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A hard rain is falling on Sieverville Correctional Prison for Women. As the river rises and its banks overflow, the same walls that are keeping the prisoners inside the fortress-like structure are failing to keep the water out.

With that water comes something else. Something deadly.

What was once outside is now inside, and the prisoners and guards will have to find a way free, because if the water doesn’t get them, the monsters will.

Story: Cullen Bunn
Art: Marika Cresta
Color: Ronda Pattison
Letterer: Andworld Design

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Zeus Comics

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #321 celebrates 300 issues since the “Silent Issue” with another one

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Larry Hama and Chris Mooneyham present the issue no G.I. Joe fan can miss as Snake-Eyes and Dawn must defend The Pit from an unexpected attack!

Story: Larry Hama
Art: Chris Mooneyham
Color: Francesco Segala
Flatter: Sabrina Del Grosso
Letterer in Spirit: Pat Brosseau

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Kindle

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