Replica #1
Replica tries to be as many books as Churchill has clones; it’s a character-centered comedy, police procedural, serious science-fiction examining the ethics of an emerging technology… even mystery, noir, and thriller.
Replica tries to be as many books as Churchill has clones; it’s a character-centered comedy, police procedural, serious science-fiction examining the ethics of an emerging technology… even mystery, noir, and thriller.
Dru Dragowski is essentially the female Dave Lizewski: an every-nerd relegated to reality with heroic aspirations far more fantastic.
The temptation to intercede, to go from cloister to crusader, is particularly potent, practically palpable in this issue.
Oxenfree combines the magic of analogue and the magic of adolescence sublimely, both working in conjunction with one another to unify its theme of juxtaposing past and future.
Higgins’ greatest success is tonal, ridding the Rangers of their unintentional camp, delivering a series both brightly colored and yet clearly for adults instead of their children or childhood selves.
Clark Kent is not Superman’s identity as a man, but rather his identification with Man, a daily exercise in humility for the individual for whom that virtue is more important than for anyone else.
Superman transfigures into pure light, ascends to the heavens, and makes his dwelling in the Sun until his promised return. He is in this way Ra, Apollo, and, most obviously, Christ.
That’s the solution to everything: Be a good man. All of the good that came about – the promise of a universe where everything lives – is the outcome of one man choosing to always do the right thing.
As the name suggests, The Hub City Review does one thing and one thing only: reviews… Except that’s not really true.
Easily the best Superman story since All-Star… navigating successfully between being reverently referential and refreshingly original