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KAMEN AMERICA: the perfect comic book REVIEW!

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It is time for another TOTALLY BIASED comic book review and today I will be reviewing the excellent KAMEN AMERICA by  TIM LIM  and writer  Mark Pellegrini . Kamen America was a pleasant surprise to me and turned out to be one of the best Indie comic books I have bought and read in years. In fact, it turned out to be one of my favorite comic books ever and I am very glad I took a chance on supporting it, after deciding to do so while writing my  Soulfinder  review which was drawn by the same artist, although that book was drawn in a totally different style. Kamen America was originally funded on  KICKSTARTER and I missed out on it the first go around because I assumed that I would not like the book based on the art style. I have notoriously always had a prejudice towards Anime/manga style comic books and more often than not assumed they were not for me. Don't ask me why, but in the past most books using such a style just never clicked for me personally. So ...

The Napalm Brothers: REVIEW

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Another day and another Totally Biased Comic Book review! Today I will be reviewing "The Napalm Brothers" by  Six Combat Scale ! Sorry I do not know his real name, and the book did not have a credits page that I could find, so I will have to use his Twitter handle. I backed The Napalm Brothers on  IndieGoGo  where I got a printed version of the book, and a no-drm PDF copy for just 10$, and that included shipping! I thought for such a reasonable price, and knowing that the book was already finished and would ship very soon, that I did not have much to lose taking a risk and backing the project. This IndideGoGo raised just over 1800$ on 131 individual backers. I really liked and totally respect this business model and hope to see more creators going the route of offering a book that they have at least completed the artwork, coloring, lettering and such and have the book ready to go to the printers. It is better for all involved and I believe brings about more trus...