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14 April 2013updated 24 Apr 2013 2:12pm

The Hardy Boys of our generation?

Reviewed: Bad Machinery, by John Allison.

By Alex Hern

Bad Machinery: The Case of the Team Spirit
John Allison
Oni Press, 136pp, £14.99

This book has been a long time coming. The first collection of John Allison’s Bad Machinery webcomic, it is being released as the web version finishes its fifth story. That’s pretty far removed from the print collections of Allison’s previous strip, Scary Go Round, of which Bad Machinery is a loose sequel. Those were usually available shortly after the arc they collected was finished, in small self-published paperbacks.

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