(courtesy Image Comics) On the surface, the idea of a genie appearing before each and every one of the people currently alive on Earth and offering them one wish would be something miraculous and full of wondrous possibility. Think of the things that could be righted – world hunger, climate Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Paper Girls 5 & 6 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
(courtesy Image Comics) On the face of it, time travel seems like one of the most fun idea out there. What’s not to like about the chance to zap anywhere in history and see dinosaurs or kill Hitler or see what the Earth looks like in 1.2 billion years? But Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Garbage Night (The Complete Edition) by Benji Lee
(courtesy Walker Books) If you think you have seen everything possible about the apocalypse, then Benji Lee and his wondrously imaginative and affectingly thoughtful graphic novel, Garbage Night: The Complete Edition is here to urge you to think again. Set in a near-future Earth where humanity has just up and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (book 3) – The Dark Times by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to proclaim, in musically buoyant Mary Poppins fashion, that something is “practically perfect in every way” but that’s really all that can be said about each and every instalment of Lightfall by massively talented writer and illustrator Tim Probert– 1: Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Antarctica – Volume 1: Out in the Void
(courtesy Image Comics) You should always be wary when someone comes home from a job they can’t talk about at a place that officially doesn’t exist and then suddenly disappears after being called back there with little to no notice. And yet while angels and those possessing any sense of Continue Reading
Comics review: Dunce – Arctic Tales by Jens K Styve
(courtesy & (c) official Jens K Styve site) Discovering a new gold standard comic strip is always a rare and precious joy. While there are a lot of very good comic strips out there, few merit a “drop everything and look here!” response with this reviewer’s attention only being seized Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Haru (book 1) – Spring by Joe Latham
(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) Adventures are supposed to be grand and gloriously thrilling things, a step far away from the everyday that takes us to places beyond imagination and our lived experience to date. And while Haru: Spring, book one of a series that will take its protagonists through the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War by Mike Chen and Angel Hernandez
(courtesy Penguin Random House) Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War by Mike Chen (writer) and Angel Hernandez (art), is one of Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Indigo Children by Rockwell White and Curt Pires (writers) + Alex Diotto and Dee Cunniffe (artists)
(courtesy Image Comics) One of the rare thrills in life, which rarely is as exciting as we want it to be, is diving deep into a promising science fiction story and finding it is just as brilliantly engaging, if not more so, than you expected. Especially if the story in Continue Reading
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown #ValentinesDay
(courtesy IMDb) Love, sweet love … ain’t it the greatest? Well, yes, but not if you’re Charlie Brown sadly and no one, I repeat no one, is giving you Valentines, and in public, on the big day! The attitude, as expressed by Lucy (Melanie Kohn) in her trademark scornfully dismissive Continue Reading