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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 10 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Kaworu Nagisa, the fifth child / Kaworu Nagisa, el quinto niñoLast week I took a long walk that led me to an old and familiar stadium. I used to go there twice a week when I was in high school. As I...
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Rabioso: Director’s Cut - Alejandro Hernández
In 2010 I was lucky enough to participate in the historical first issue of “The Gathering”. I wrote a two page story. I was in charge of penciling, inking and lettering it. I did it all. I can’t say...
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Heartburst - Rick Veitch
Xenophobia and racism are often two expressions of the same fundamental human flaw: fear. Fear can take many forms, it can lead us to intolerance, bury our common sense and make us hate the unknown and...
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September comic books / cómics de setiembre
September has been a very good month for me. I’m so excited to read Steranko’s SHIELD and the Best of Milligan and McCarthy (I took a quick look and they look absolutely awesome). I enjoyed X-Men...
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Interior de la vida - Ralf León Servat
my drawing / mi dibujo“The Only Living Substance” was published in The Gathering vol. 2 (2011). I feel particularly proud of the title design and I think the protagonist looks consistent from one panel...
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Tommy Taylor & the Ship That Sank Twice - Mike Carey & Peter Gross
Yuko ShimizuI’ve often wondered what we can accomplish as writers. Can we create ex nihilo? Or, in order to tell a story, we depend on narrative elements established centuries ago? Writers are...
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Young Avengers # 9 - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
I don't know if it would be fair to affirm that gay teens suffer a whole lot more than straight teens. Certainly, adolescence is a complicated age, but I still think it’s much harder for gay kids who...
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Tejiendo el instante - Ana Teresa Barboza (Galería Wu)
my drawing / mi dibujoSomeone told to me once that I was far too smart for my own good and that I had “good memory”; I only smiled, that person was wrong. Yes, I can name the kings and queens of...
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Narcopolis - Jamie Delano & Jeremy Rock
The pursuit of happiness has long been forsaken. It has been replaced with unabashed and endless consumerism. Certainly, our century can be defined by people’s obsession to consume… either products or...
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October films / películas de octubre
According to my plans, I should have seen at least a dozen movies in October but, in the end, I only had time to watch 9. So let’s start with Elysium (2013), a futuristic tale about a society in which...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 11 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Kaworu Nagisa & Shinji IkariI’ve always been selfish, but I could not discern the degree of my own egocentrism till I was confronted with a very difficult decision. I was 16 years old when I turned...
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October comic books / cómics de octubre
While you were out there celebrating Halloween, I was a happy prisoner of a veritable mountain of good comics! Some were simply good (Night of the Living Dead, New Mutants), others were very good...
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Young Avengers # 10 - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
For most people, Mother’s Day is a happy occasion, albeit slightly smeared by the corporate interests of the greeting cards industry. For the Young Avengers, on the other hand, Mother’s Day is the most...
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Paradax - Peter Milligan & Brendan McCarthy
Paradax (Al Cooper) You are a young superhero. You enjoy drinking beer and having sex with your girlfriend. But youth isn’t a synonym of happiness. After all, you need money in your wallet to buy that...
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Sidekick # 1, 2 & 3 - J M Straczynski & Tom Mandrake
Tom MandrakeIf you’ve read superhero comics then you’re familiar with the “sidekick” term, pejorative for some, sardonic for others and always –or at least most of the time– controversial. Batman and...
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America’s Got Powers # 7 - Jonathan Ross & Bryan Hitch
The struggle for power finally gets to an end. In the conclusion of this miniseries, the creative team provides at last an answer to most of our questions. What happens when Tommy decides that it’s...
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Rogan Gosh - Peter Milligan & Brendan McCarthy
Rogan GoshRogan Gosh is an overdose of pure surrealism thinly disguised as a story about Indian gods and common Londoners. Everything begins with an alternate version of Rudyard Kipling, the famous...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 10 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Kaworu Nagisa, the fifth child / Kaworu Nagisa, el quinto niñoLast week I took a long walk that led me to an old and familiar stadium. I used to go there twice a week when I was in high school. As I...
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Rabioso: Director’s Cut - Alejandro Hernández
In 2010 I was lucky enough to participate in the historical first issue of “The Gathering”. I wrote a two page story. I was in charge of penciling, inking and lettering it. I did it all. I can’t say...
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Jupiter’s Legacy # 3 - Mark Millar & Frank Quitely
Once again, Mark Millar has shared with us an insightful interpretation of the superhero genre. In a previous chapter we saw how the Utopian and the other superheroes saved the United States and...
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