Comics

We all know nightmares are frightening places to be. Which is waking from them, even if it is with a scream and a momentarily debilitating loss of certainty about where and who we are, is always a sweet and blessed, reality-embracing relief. But if your nightmares are the same each Continue Reading

There’s something gloriously enlivening and bracing about come across a story that is a breathlessly good take on something reasonably hackneyed and overdone; in this case, the apocalypse. No matter or what you slice it with – be it zombies, aliens, epidemics, sterility or any one of a thousand other Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTBeing a space trucker sounds like a cool job, but in reality, it can be boring as hell. So when recently widowed Gil gets a long-haul gig across the universe, he figures it’s safe enough to bring his young son Kadyn along for the ride—that is, until their “big rig” Continue Reading

If you have even one romantic bone in your body, and I’m guessing there must be than one unless your heart is concrete and your soul solid granite, put aside any notions that you have looking at the cover of Check, Please! (Book #1: #Hockey) by the supremely-talented Ngozi Ukazu. Continue Reading

One of the greatest gifts that the creator of any comic book can give a reader is to present their creation as a fully-formed entity with a minimum of exposition. There’s nothing wrong with exposition per se, of course; the key thing is that it must be done well or Continue Reading

One of the great delights of a being an omnivorous reader is the delight you experience when a piece of work that initially presents as one thing turns out to be quite another. Or both, all at once. Nimona is one of those delightful surprises, the work of Noelle Stevenson, Continue Reading

As a kid, one of my favourite things in the world was to curl up on the couch, or spread-eagled on the floor, and read mystery novels. Anything from The Hardy Boys through to Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators through to the Dana Girls, and much later all 87 Agatha Continue Reading

People love new starts. Well, the idea of them anyway; the actual execution is not as popular, coming as it does with nerves (those butterflies sure can fly some impressively-jarring formations in your stomach), hang-ups, past issues and the daunting fear that what lies ahead may not be a good Continue Reading

One of life’s great pleasures, especially after a lifetime spend taking in stories in all kinds of forms, whether it’s through books, TV shows, movies or graphic novels, is coming across a story so breathtakingly-original and imaginative that you are almost leaping out of your chair with the thrill of Continue Reading