Comics

Life can be pretty tough when you’re in that place between the formation of your dreams and their hoped-for fulfillment; tougher still when that place is wholly held afloat by a minimum wage job that doesn’t pay nearly enough for all the stress involved and buttressed by parents who don’t Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTThe story is set during the Dominion War and is a noir-type story. David Tipton commented: “Set during the most difficult hours of the Dominion War, Too Long a Sacrifice shows the station during trying times: a series of mysterious and seemingly unsolvable terrorist attacks just as the war has Continue Reading

Ah, the giddy joys of falling in love. All the wining and dining and dating and kissing and the glittering possibilities of things yet to come; it is hard not to be swept into the starry-eyed dance of romantic back-and-forth, culminating, if Cupid is smiling upon you, in getting together Continue Reading

Heading home can often be quite bittersweet. There are those things you remember fondly, the tropes and hallmarks of family life that bring warmth to your soul and a smile to your face; then there are the parts of being with the ones you know and love that induce teeth Continue Reading

One of the most delightful surprises of the recent sci-fi cohort of Peak TV has been the emergence of The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s irreverently affectionate look at what an alliance of Federation-like planets might be like with more whimsy, biting oneliners and a sense of the ridiculous. With its third Continue Reading

The idea that there something magical just beyond our understanding and outside our rather drab and often cruel reality is a compelling one. After all, who hasn’t wondered, when faced with the drudgery and exhaustion of another day in a world full of disappointment and sadness whether there isn’t something Continue Reading

Low is, in every possible sense of the word, EPIC (and yes, the capitalisation is most assuredly warranted and necessary). Written by Rick Remender with artwork by Greg Tocchini, Low is one of those science fiction comics series that takes its impressively imaginative premise and runs it to every possible Continue Reading

If there is one thing that this quirk-obsessed reviewers adores, love and sends 100 dozen roses to on Valentine’s Day, it is a story that goes full Mad Cow Disease imaginative, puts the pedal to the sugar high idiosyncratic pedal and goes wherever the hyper-coloured inspiration takes them. Which is Continue Reading