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Classic Comic Compendium: GRENDEL – DEVIL CHILD is a difficult but powerful read

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Grendel - Devil Child is one of the few mainline Grendel series not penned by series creator Matt Wagner, and it's powerful.
Gates of Gotham

Classic Comic Compendium: BATMAN – GATES OF GOTHAM feels like a dry run for...

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While very different, Batman: Gates of Gotham does feel like a precursor to some of the ideas in the Court of Owls story arc.

Classic Comic Compendium: In BATMAN – HEART OF HUSH, Hush is back … again

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Batman - Heart of Hush feels like the first of the true sequels to the original Hush story arc, exploring the character's childhood.

Classic Comic Compendium: And somehow Hush returned in BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS – PUSHBACK

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Pushback was not only the return of Hush, but the start of a period of high-stakes supervillain warfare in Gotham City.

Classic Comic Compendium: BATMAN – HUSH was a disruptive, tonal shift when first published

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Batman - Hush is an action spectacle, a thrill ride with mystery, a little bit of romance, and a preponderance of Batman's rogues gallery.
Far Sector

Classic Comic Compendium: FAR SECTOR is the crown jewel of DC’s Young Animal

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Far Sector is the crown jewel of DC Comics' Young Animal imprint, a thought-provoking sociopolitical commentary through deep sci-fi.
Eternity Girl

Classic Comic Compendium: ETERNITY GIRL is a deeply personal story built with metaphysical ideas

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Eternity Girl spun out of DC's Young Animal Milk Wars crossover, combining a personal story with metaphysics.
The Changing Woman

Classic Comic Compendium: SHADE, THE CHANGING WOMAN and the sci-fi weirdness of growing up

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A look at Young Animal's most deceptively straight-forward book.

Classic Comic Compendium: The escalating weirdness of the DC/YOUNG ANIMAL – MILK WARS crossover

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The DC / Young Animal - Milk Wars crossover is an escalation in weirdness for an already weird line of comics.
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE

Classic Comic Compendium: Hollow earth meets in the multiverse in CAVE CARSON HAS A...

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With Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye Vol. 2, the creative team serves up an excellent hollow earth, multiverse comic.

Classic Comic Compendium: MOTHER PANIC – VOLUME 1 – A WORK IN PROGRESS

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Mother Panic, the Gotham City book of the now-defunct Young Animal imprint, was an interesting take on the celebrity-turned-vigilante format.
Bricky by Brick

Classic Comic Compendium: DOOM PATROL – VOL. 1 – BRICK BY BRICK

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Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Brick by Brick is the first book of the Young Animal era, an offbeat story of a girl and her ambulance.

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