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'Curse Words' Proves You Can Never Have Too Much Mystical Fire

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's neon-drenched comic is giddily over-the-top, featuring a buffed-up wizard named Wizord, his talking koala sidekick and many, many glowing blasts of mystical fire.
<em>Curse Words, </em>Volume 1 by Charles Soule.

Etelka Lehoczky has written about books for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Salon.com. She tweets at @EtelkaL.

A wizard named — for no particular reason — Wizord and his sidekick Margaret (a talking koala, again for no particular reason) star in Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's giddily indulgent, neon-drenched . There's actually no particular reason for a lot of what's packed into this comic, simply isn't for you. Also, you're missing out.

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