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Khaled Abou Alfa

Khaled Abou Alfa has written 105 posts for Splash Panel
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300

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ October 23, 2006 ⋅ 16 comments

‘300′ is the greatest story Frank Miller has ever been involved with. In fact I’ll go one step forward and say that ‘300′ is the best work Frank Miller has ever produced and will likely ever produce (I’m a natural born optimist and I’d relish reading something that tops ‘300′, however I’m also a realist [...]

Silent Dragon

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ September 30, 2006 ⋅ One comment

What happens when you mix in Andy Diggle (of The Losers Fame) with Leinil Francis Yu, the Japanese Yakuza, samurai, political backstabbing, broken alliances, all set in the backdrop of Japan in 2063? Simple answer is a little book from Wildstorm’s excellent Signature banner, Silent Dragon.

low orbit

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ September 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Low Orbit anthology is definitely one to look out for coming in November from Image comics. Definitely one to look out for. Reminds me of the excellent Flight Anthologies from the past couple of years.

Dawn | Lucifer’s Halo

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ September 17, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

Rereading this series brings back a great deal of memories. Dawn was one of my oldest looks into the independent publishing world of comics in the mid 1990s. The landscape at the time was rife with pure and unreadable garbage. From that desolate land there were a couple of shining beacons for the faithful that [...]

Planetes | Volume 1

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ September 11, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

First off I’ll say that I’m generally not a massive fan of anything that Tokyopop comes out with. It seriously lacks most of the class that other companies that manga publishers have. Specifically I’m comparing manga fare brought as from the likes of Dark Horse and Viz. Two companies whom I put a lot of [...]

comic pants

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ September 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Comic Pants has got some pretty good work going over at the new comic book review site. I only heard about it because ex- thefourthrail dude Randy Lander’s contributing to the site.

Kabuki Daily

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ August 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve spoken about the purely sublime series Kabuki when I reviewed Circle of Blood. Now you can start reading this series on a daily basis for free. That’s a pretty good deal if you ask me for one of the best stories ever written (by a 21 year old David Mack, no less). You’ve seriously [...]

GN Release - 16th of August 2006

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ August 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I was actually sitting here wondering why the hell I’ve not been feeling very connected to the world of graphic novels, and then I realised that my routine look at what’s going on in the world of comics had come to a pretty much a stop. It’s nothing personal, just lots of things going on [...]

DeathNote

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ August 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Jasmina, who’s the BIGGEST Otaku I’ve ever met in my life pointed me out to this manga series called ‘DeathNote’ The idea alone made me excited to read this. It’s basically about a boy called Kira who gets a book, whereby any name he scribbles down will be killed. He makes it his duty to [...]

Superman | For Tomorrow | Volume 1

By Khaled Abou Alfa ⋅ July 8, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

In light of the new Superman movie I thought it good to try and review a couple of recent books that actually make for a good read with the “boy in blue”. As you can expect DC has been slowly but surely building up it’s back catalogue of stories for consumption by the masses in [...]

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