Comics

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

Imagination can be a powerful thing. In the face of reality, which can often be cruel, unrelenting and comes with few to any certainties including any sense of justice or guaranteed happily-ever-afters, imagination allows us to escape the world we occupy, to picture a place where we are triumphant, where Continue Reading

There is something utterly beguiling about a well-told mystery well-sustained with just the right amount of breadcrumb clues along the way. And beguiling is just the word for the intriguing charms of Folklords, written by Matt Kindt, illustrated by Matt Smith and coloured by Chris O’Halloran, which takes places in Continue Reading

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

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

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