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The Wicked + The Divine 1 (June 2014)
I read a few scenes in The Wicked + The Divine too fast and got confused about whether Jamie McKelvie was drawing boys who look like girls or girls who look like boys. It’s the latter but, dang, was...
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The Wicked + The Divine 2 (July 2014)
The last few pages are mostly text. It’s decent text, so Gillen can kind of get away with the hard cliffhanger and not actually have to do much. He doesn’t really do much in this issue all together,...
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The Wicked + The Divine 3 (August 2014)
Something is a little off this issue. Gillen has maybe run out of establishing stuff to do and he’s getting underway with the actual story. This young woman investigating the gods and just happening...
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The Wicked + The Divine 4 (September 2014)
Well… let’s see… where to start–the issue is two and a half scenes. The first has our protagonist, the human girl detective investigating on Lucifer’s behalf, with her sidekick interviewing Baal. He’s...
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Phonogram 4 (January 2007)
It’s got a cliffhanger. A genuine cliffhanger. It’s like Gillen’s writing a serialized narrative. How exciting. Before I actually start saying nice things about Gillen (for a change), let me keep with...
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Phonogram 5 (March 2007)
Wait, this whole musical movement they’re talking about in Phonogram is Oasis? Those guys who were bigger than the Beatles, so they proclaimed, and then they disappeared in like two years? I remember...
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Phonogram 6 (May 2007)
I’m going to regret making this statement… The last issue of Phonogram is great. Gillen retroactively pretends the series was about people and he sells it effectively. Instead of all his music-based...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 1 (December 2008)
The issue has three stories in it. The most successful is the two-page one, illustrated by Ellerby. It’s just a little, amusing strip… but it manages not to have the problems the others do. The second...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 2 (April 2009)
Oh, wait, the girl from the first issue isn’t really that terrible and didn’t deserve to be treated so meanly? Gillen is apparently doing a night at the club from everyone’s perspective, so this issue...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 3 (June 2009)
Not sure how you’re supposed to read this one. Gillen’s protagonist this issue is Emily, a supporting cast member from the first series. But it ends with her having casual sex with a complete stranger...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 4 (July 2009)
Whether Gillen intends it to be or not, this issue is more a concept issue than anything else. The protagonists are the two DJs at the club and we pretty much don’t see anyone but them for the entire...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 5 (October 2009)
Here we get the story of another depressed girl–she opens the issue cutting herself–and she tells most of her story in quotes from songs. While it’s admirable how much work Gillen put into finding...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 6 (December 2009)
Wow. Gillen wants the reader to through pages and pages of poorly written text with bad punctuation. The writing eventually gets so bad I had to give it up. Here, instead of a bad person in Phonogram,...
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Phonogram: The Singles Club 7 (February 2010)
Gillen mildly redeems himself–not really, he avoided the most interesting characters in Singles Club and filled three issues with malarky, but somewhat–with an almost wordless issue featuring...
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Osborn 1 (January 2011)
The first thing I noticed about Osborn is the Emma Rios artwork. She reminds of Paul Pope in a lot of ways. She’s very good, able to mix the implied evil and then the lighter comic moments with the...
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