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Kill Shakespeare #12 – Review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: The (other) epic saga of Hamlet, Richard III, Lady The Scottish Play, Othello, Juliet, Iago and Shakespeare comes to a conclusion in an epic, no-holds-barred battle to determine the fate of their world. What’s Good and [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #10 – Review

Posted on April 26, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Juliet and Othello lead their ragtag band of Prodigals against Richard’s army, with predictably dire results. Things explode, people die, and Lady Macbeth uses her dark magic to ensure that the Prodigals remain on the defensive. [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #9 – Review

Posted on February 28, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Shawn Lee (letters) The Story: This is the issue that all dedicated Kill Shakespeare readers have been waiting for since the very beginning…Hamlet finally comes face to face with the wizard Shakespeare. Will they fight? Ally? Betray each other? Not say [...]

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An Interview With IDW’s Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col

Posted on December 7, 2010 by SoldierHawk

As readers of my reviews know, Kill Shakespeare is one of my favorite books on the stand right now. As an English major (and teacher) the combination of comics and Shakespeare’s characters is absolutely irresistible. The series has hit a pair of benchmarks recently–the release of issue #7 last month (which marks the past-halfway mark [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #7 – Review

Posted on November 23, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Lady Macbeth and Iago discuss their (still tenuous) alliance, while Hamlet and Juliet continue to grow closer together. Feste, an oddly self-aware Fool, shows up for the big Twelfth Night celebration, and puts on a show [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #6 – Review

Posted on November 1, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Juliet continues to rally the troops for the rebellion, while Lady Macbeth works her dark magic on Richard’s (and her own) behalf. Hamlet must choose his destiny once again, and Othello contends with Iago’s—changed?—nature. What’s [...]

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What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paladinking

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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Comics You Should Be Reading

Posted on October 12, 2010 by paladinking

Welcome to a new feature here at WCBR, which will hopefully resurface periodically. Here we highlight series that we reviewers feel are not getting the readers, or the attention, that they deserve. These are books that we’ve been particularly enjoying. These are DC/Marvel books that should be in the top ten, or at least the [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #5 – Review

Posted on September 13, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Connor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: After some soul searching (and some prompting from his bestest buddy evar, Iago), Hamlet decides to leave the Prodigals and set off on his own. Naturally this doesn’t end well as he immediately falls victim [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #4 – Review

Posted on August 4, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Hamlet and Falstaff complete their escape, and arrive at The Bottom’s Up, a tavern in which Juliet Capulet and Othello are busy recruiting fighters for the resistance against Richard and Macbeth. Of course, Richard’s men—led [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #3 – Advance Review

Posted on July 7, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Hamlet meets a new friend in a gentleman named Fallstaff—and also gains a bit of purpose and guidance from a “Prodigal” forest spirit called Robin Goodfellow. Elsewhere, Richard III and Macbeth negotiate between themselves and jockey [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #2 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Neil Uyetake (letters) The Story: Richard fights to keep control of Macbeth’s forces while Hamlet uses his newfound powers as the Shadow King of prophesy to lead Richard’s army closer to Shakespeare. Although they encounter some unexpected opposition, Hamlet manages [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #1 – Review

Posted on April 20, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Connor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Robbie Robbins (letters) The Story: Prince Hamlet of Denmark finds himself pulled off a ship and into a magical portal (created by Macbeth’s witches) that transports him into another realm. After nearly drowning at sea, he is found and rescued [...]

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