There is no greater joy than plunging into a highly-regarded series of any kind, but in this case a graphic novel, and finding that it’s not just as good as everyone says but quite possibly even better. Eisner-nominated Crowded from Image comics, which has now been collected into two gorgeously-presented Continue Reading
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To Africa … and beyond! Space opera graphic novel Yohance debuts trailer
SNAPSHOT“An epic space opera with a purely African aesthetic, Yohance is the story of a master thief who gets caught up in an intergalactic conflict that reveals a centuries-old war and dark secrets of his own past.” (official synopsis courtesy CBR.com) One of the most exciting things that is taking Continue Reading
Bill & Ted Are Doomed: The most excellent prequel comic to Bill & Ted Face the Music
SNAPSHOTAfter defeating the evil dictator De Nomolos in Bogus Journey in 1995, things aren’t looking as excellent as they should for either Bill and Ted or Wyld Stallyns. There’s tension in the band and worry at home. Bill and Ted’s obsessiveness with writing the one song to bring peace to Continue Reading
Comics review: The Backstagers
It is a rare and wonderful thing indeed to stumble by accident across a series of graphic novels that happily combine an imaginative sense of the surreal and the fantastical, an emotional resonance that captures the heart and profoundly so, and a willingness to unapologetically reflect the world as it Continue Reading
Hello Odo and Kira my old friends! Time to go back to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with new comics series
SNAPSHOT“Death casts its shadow as Constable Odo searches for truth amid a web of treachery and lies. Everyone on the Promanade has a motive for this murder, be it vengeance, justice… or old-fashioned greed.” (synopsis courtesy TrekMovie.com) If you ask most Star Trek fans which series they love above all Continue Reading
He’s Back! Gary Larson returns with new The Far Side material
The Far Side is alive! Granted, it never really died in the hearts of fan everywhere who have kept the quirky faith and a sense of the ridiculous intact during the 25 years since creator Gary Larson release any new material. Now it’s back! Well, kind of … As Larson Continue Reading
The delightfulness of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking #Peanuts #ChristmasInJuly
There’s no question that Peanuts makes Christmas special. Spending time with Snoopy, Charlie Brown. Lucy, Sally and the rest of the thoughtfully lovable cast of characters brings not only a richness to proceedings since these are kids who really think things through, but a quirky delightfulness as they pose the Continue Reading
Woof! Asterix’s Dogmatix gets his own book!
One of the great delights of the Astérix comics (and they are multitudinous), which began in 1959 under the stewardship of writer René Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo – these duties are now handled by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad respectively – is a very small, feisty and mischievously lovable Continue Reading
Pop culture festiveness! The 5 ornaments I hung on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
I have put up a Christmas in July tree! Those who know me well will not be surprised by this at all, since I love Christmas with the same fervour and passion that I reserve for caramel cheesecake and releases of new books by my favourite authors. But in previous Continue Reading
Comics review: Beyonders (Volume 1) by Paul Jenkins and Wesley St. Claire
We are, for the most part, a very curious people. Not everyone grant you, but enough of us dare to ask the big questions and push the boundaries of what is known and what’s possible that humanity has been able to push forward, ever forward to some very cool and Continue Reading