Everything Vol. 1 - TRADE RATING REVIEW

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By Gabe Gonzalez — “If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully through the catalogue.” …this quote comes at the start of Everything #5, the first season finale of one of the most interesting and abstract titles put out by Dark Horse’s Berger Books imprint. That quote comes at the beginning and expertly speaks to what the entire story is about. If you need to ejaculate every time you lay down to sleep, if you need an infestation of ants, if you need an illness, or if you need a paint chip-driven hallucination — The Everything shopping center has it all!

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REVIEW: Tomorrow #1, have we forgotten that kids are rarely alright?

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By Zack Quaintance — Tomorrow #1 is the first issue of a new sci-fi horror series that has an old (or least thoroughly explored in modern storytelling) idea at its center — the adults are all dying out. This is a plot device that even has its own entry on TvTropes.org, complete with a list of instances in various media. At the center of the way writer Peter Milligan and artist Jesus Harvas are imagining it, however, are Milligan’s own memories of how terrible children can be to each other, a subject I heard discussed at the NYCC Berger Books panel this year and read about again in the intro to this issue.

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