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May You Cast A Wondrous ‘Moonshadow: The Definitive Ed. H/C’ On The Wednesday...
Moonshadow happened upon me – or, really, didn’t happen upon me – soon after I had discovered tried-and-true comic book stores. It was 1985, and I was twelve years old, and the Comic Den, a small shop...
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Swing the ‘Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer Of Justice #1’ On The...
Look, you don’t get something like Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice every day. Sure, you might get more than one comic book columnist talking about it on a particular exciting comic book...
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All Manor Of Dark Mystery In ‘Manor Black #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Manor Black is the new title from the creators of Harrow County, a long-time favourite ‘round these parts of the interwebs. Evidence to that can be found here and here and here. Harrow County, which...
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Bite Into The Sweet Fruit That Is ‘Snow, Glass, Apples’ On The Wednesday Run
Everyone knows the fairy tale of Snow White from the famous Walt Disney animated film of 1937. That artistic endeavour is still the go-to for parents introducing the story and characters to their...
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Bring On The Mind-Altering Crime Thriller Of ‘Crimson Flower #1’ On The...
When it comes to tales that pick at the corners of reality and warp a reader’s sense of what is and what could be, wherever writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Revolver, Ether, Fear Case) leads, this sci-fi...
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Multi-Creatives Take Over With ‘Black Hammer: Visions #1’ On The Wednesday Run
We here at Biff Bam Pop! love our Black Hammer! Created by the brilliant minds of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Moon Knight, Descender, Essex County), and Dean Ormston (Lucifer, Books of Magick: Life...
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Revenge Is A Dish Best Served By ‘Orphan And The Five Beasts’ #1 On The...
As a kid growing up in the early 1980’s, I remember happily spending summer weekends laying on the couch next to my Dad watching Buffalo-based television programming beamed across the border courtesy...
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Three Faith Leaders Walk Into A Bar For ‘Unfinished Business’ On The...
Sure. It starts off like some kind of stand-up comedian’s dated joke. Something funny that Rodney Dangerfield might have told an audience in Las Vegas once upon a time. Or maybe it was George Carlin...
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Cosmic Horror Awaits In ‘The Art Of Arkham Horror HC’ On The Wednesday Run
Oh, we all love the unknowable and secret cosmic horror that is author H.P. Lovecraft’s contribution to fiction. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is one of the greatest and most beloved works of horror,...
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Search For The Center In “Mazebook #1” On The Wednesday Run
Biff Bam Pop! has always been a fan of Jeff Lemire’s work. Whether it’s his post-apocalyptic coming-of-age story, Sweet Tooth (now a successful Netflix series), his graphic novel about identity, The...
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Calling All Blue Blaze Irregulars For ‘Buckaroo Banzai Against The World...
For over thirty-seven years, thousands of Blue Blaze Irregulars all over the world have been waiting for the promised return of Buckaroo Banzai and his heroic group of Hong Kong Cavaliers. The final...
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Uncover A Heroic Lie In “Cloaked #1” On The Wednesday Run
You could be forgiven if your first reminisces upon reading the premise to the new and eagerly anticipated Dark Horse Comics, four-issue miniseries, Cloaked, was 1986’s now legendary, genre-breaking...
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There’s More Horror Than Just War In ‘Apache Delivery Service #1’ On The...
Over decades, the comic book medium has often told of the horrors – real and imaginary – of war and the battlefield. Found on the water, in the skies and all the way to the trenches in World War I,...
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Viral Steampunk Call Out for ‘Radio Spaceman #1’ On The Wednesday Run
The last two years of life on this planet has certainly been some of the strangest of our human existence. I can particularly recall, at the outset of COVID-19, ensuring the office-turned-pantry was...
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Return To Southern Gothic Fantasy & Horror With ‘Tales From Harrow County:...
Here at Biff Bam Pop!, we love ourselves some horror! Heck, even though we write about the genre all year ‘round, we even dedicate the month of October to it – that’ show much we love it! Whether it’s...
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Gather Together And Steel Yourselves For ‘The Lonesome Hunters #1’ On The...
We’ve said it before but it bears repeating that we here at Biff Bam Pop! love the southern gothic horror and fantasy series, Harrow County, and the art of that title’s co-creator, the award-winning...
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Get Your Head Into ‘Mind MGMT: Bootleg #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Mind MGMT is one of the all-time mind-screw comic book series’ that you could ever read outside of a Philip K. Dick novel. That honour, as well as it being a great series about espionage, conspiracy...
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Sleep Well With The ‘Creeping H/C’ On The Wednesday Run
Back when I was oh, about eight or nine or ten (and then eleven and twelve), the kids on my street and I would spend our summer holidays playing all sorts of games and issuing all sorts of challenges...
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Love Today And Every Yesterday With ‘Always Never HC’ On The Wednesday Run
I dropped off my son for his first day of Grade 1 today. That brief event brought me back. Sure, it was decades ago for me, but seeing all of the kids, anxious for themselves yesterday and excited to...
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31 Days of Horror 2022 – Steel Yourself And Settle In With ‘Night Of The...
In the early 1980s my friends and I used to get our hands on a plethora of VHS horror movies that we’d secretly watch, outside our parent’s knowledge, in our basements through summer holidays and...
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31 Days Of Horror 2022 – Fall In Love With ‘Hellboy In Love #1’ On The...
As the once green leaves continue to turn all sorts of wonderful reds and yellows, we’re reminded that we’re in the heart of the autumn season. Also, that the spookiest time of the year is now at...
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Set Your Eyes To The Stars With The Close-To-Home ‘Kepler H/C’ On The...
In early 2009, NASA launched the Kepler space telescope whose mission was to scan the Milky Way galaxy in search of earth-sized planets orbiting stars. That mission was successful. During Kepler’s...
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Noir Thrills & Meta Secrets Revealed In The ‘Super Spy HC’ On The Wednesday Run
In case you haven’t noticed, Biff Bam Pop! is just now beginning its’ yearly Holiday Gift Guide series of articles – a few days earlier than what we’ve done in the past, showing how excited we are for...
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Draw Into The Power Of ‘The Art Of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe’ On...
Who could forget the early 1980’s animated television debut of Mattel’s new toy line, Masters Of The Universe, courtesy of the acclaimed Lou Scheimer and Filmation studio? “I have the power!” He-Man...
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Find Furtive & Noirish Danger With ‘Spy Superb #1’ On The Wednesday Run
For some reason inexplicable reason, I missed this one last week. Some confusion over release dates – or, more likely, a New Year’s hangover. We here at Biff Bam Pop! have a long and storied love...
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Satire & Samurai Are Found In ‘White Savior #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Some mornings you wake up and you know exactly how the day is going to go. Maybe it’s a self-made prophecy, maybe it’s fate, destiny or some strange kind of predestination. In any case, if feels like...
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Non-Fiction That Will Make You Believe In ‘Blue Book #1’ On The Wednesday Run
When I was a kid, I lived for books, magazines and especially late-at-night television programming that featured the nonfiction accounts of unexplained phenomena: UFO’s, alien abductions, the Men in...
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Big Ups For The Noir Mystery Of ‘Mister Mammoth HC’ On The Wednesday Run
Every great work of the hard-boiled detective pop culture genre, whether in book form or television, has a memorable and larger-than-life main character. Think Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon, Phillip...
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Exclusive Preview: “Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #3” from Dark Horse...
The new Masters of the Universe series, Masterverse has been a hit with fans (you can see our review of the first issue here), and we’ve got an exclusive look at the third issue below, thanks to our...
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Purrfectly Nightmarish Reading With ‘Hairball #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Cats. They’re lovable, aren’t they? They’re full of personality and a fun kind of mischief with oodles of physical humour to spare. Really, remember those times when their acrobatically balanced feet...
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Set Your Peepers And Your Fears On ‘All Eight Eyes #1’ On The Wednesday Run
During lazy summer days as a young kid, I used to collect bugs in large glass mason jars and, after incorporating some grass, small sticks and pebbles to make them feel more at home, watch as they’d...
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Fly Your Way To ‘Barnstormers #1’ On The Wednesday Run
There aren’t enough period piece dramas published in the comic book medium these days. Oh, sure. Amongst all the superhero fare out there, currently available on comic and bookstore shelves, we’re...
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Survive The Wilds and Find Yourself With ‘Lost Boy’ On The Wednesday Run
We’re nearing the end of our summer holidays. You could be forgiven for already feeling nostalgic about patio weather, outdoor concerts, and time spent with family in the backyard or on day trips....
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31 Days Of Horror 2023: Popcorn And Frights On “The Midnight Show #1” On The...
We all love those classic silver screen monster movies from seemingly bygone days of yore! Dracula. The Mummy. The Creature From The Black Lagoon. The Wolfman. Frankenstein. These are the foundations...
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31 Days Of Horror 2023: Trick Or Treat With “Headless Horseman Halloween...
The spooky month is now well upon us and we here at Biff Bam Pop! would be remiss to not nudge our fearless readers towards another fearfully entertaining comic book offering. It’s another example of...
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Dig Deep Into Mysterious Horror With “Canary #1” On The Wednesday Run
Sure, Biff Bam Pop! just closed the book on our annual 31 Days of Horror columns, but like our favourite fearsome tales, horror tends to persist! Where’s the rule that says everything terrifying must...
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Fear No Monster For Cometh “Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter...
Real monsters exist, didn’t cha know? But everything you know about them is a lie. Yesiree. I tell ya, they run all the mainstream media, from the tele-news to the ol fashioned paper ones to the new...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Celebrate the Season with The Deep Ones in ‘The...
Christmas and Cthulhu go hand in hand, didn’t you know? Deck the halls with boughs of seaweed – we all await the coming of the Deep Ones who herald the return of the Great Old One, the cosmic entity...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Comic Book Compilations (& Art Books) – Part 3
With only a few days left to shop for that perfect gift for the comic book lover in your life, here’s our third and final entry in our annual Holiday Gift Guide: Comic Book Compilations list. It’s...
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Experience The Visual Grand Opera Of ‘Death Strikes: The Emperor Of Atlantis...
At some time in pre-history, the great and all-powerful civilization of Atlantis, it is said, drowned under supreme oceanic waves, it’s culture and wisdom, lost to all, forever. Truth or fiction, that...
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Celebrate Black History Month And Get ‘Shook! A Black Horror Anthology TPB’...
I’ve always loved a good anthology comic book. Now, it’s one, highly enjoyable, thing to experience a singular or long-form story in a comic book title featuring a particular character. It’s something...
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When There’s Something Strange Reach For ‘Ghostbusters: Back In Town #1’ On...
What’s this? A Wednesday Run column on a Thursday morning? What’s next? The dead rising from the grave? Human sacrifices? Mass hysteria? Cats and dogs, living together? Mass hysteria? I know. I know....
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Experience Tales Of Horror And Cuteness In ‘William of Newbury #1’ On The...
Some of the most entertaining, moving and award-winning comic book tales involve animals as stand-ins for human beings. Maus, Pride of Baghdad, We3 and Grandville immediately come to mind and there...
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Don’t Get Tricked Out Of ‘Anansi Boys #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Writer Neil Gaiman has had a number of his prose works translated into the comic book medium over the years. Originally famous for his dark fantasy The Sandman series at DC Comics during the late...
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Get Your Tentacles On ‘Arkham Horror: The Terror At The End Of Time #1’ On...
In the basement of BBP’s Editor-In-Chief, Andy Burns, I’ve played Fantasy Flight’s Arkham Horror co-operative board game along with a few other wayward, cosmic-horror loving pals. Admittedly, the game...
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Only Family Can Solve The Mystery Of The ‘Gilt Frame #1’ On The Wednesday Run
Already in love with mysteries and noir crime, when I was a young boy, my best friend, John, and I decided to form our own local detective agency appropriately called, the J&J Detective Agency. We...
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If You’ve Got The Red Scare Just ‘Duck And Cover #1’ On The Wednesday Run
A long time ago, when I was back in my university art school days, I had the opportunity and pleasure of meeting with a group of Canadian Vietnam veterans. Now, Canada wasn’t formally involved in that...
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Our Sci-Fi Future Is Full of Stars & Violence In ‘Arcbound 1’ On The...
It’s not out of the ordinary for fiction and non-fiction writers, those prose stylists of columns, short stories, novels or journalistic contributions, make the jump to the comic book forum. We’ve...
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Strange Horror & Comedy Reveals Itself In Small Town ‘Barstow 1’ On The...
There’s just something anxiously, forebodingly, enticing about small towns, isn’t there? They’ve been made famous in books, comic books, television and film. Who hasn’t been fascinated with Hawkins,...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Comic Book Compilations – Part 1
Let’s see. You’re looking to get that comic book-loving friend, family member, or other important person the perfect compilation gift for this holiday season. There are so many softcovers and...
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