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Laurel and Hardy are getting comical all over again

Posted on January 19, 2019January 18, 2019 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT There are few names in the history of comedy which have stood the test of time. Acts who transcend age and bring laughter to generations like few have before or after them. They have been recognized as a template for modern humor and celebrated by today’s most popular funnymen Continue Reading

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Happy pop culture new year everyone!

Posted on December 31, 2018December 31, 2018 by aussiemoose
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It’s a Giant Days Christmas! Where Women Glow and Men Plunder

Posted on December 15, 2018December 12, 2018 by aussiemoose

Apparently as an Aussie guy, I am, so says the iconicly-famous song by Men at Work, supposed to be engaged  in regular bouts of plundering (and chundering too but that’s a whole other thing) while the women around me are reported to glow from perspiration, nuclear fallout residue or some Continue Reading

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Husband and husband: True love in graphic novel form

Posted on December 9, 2018December 12, 2018 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Time and time again we are reminded that we are better together—and it all started with Husband & Husband! When we launched our webcomic we thought to ourselves, ‘Wait, why isn’t this name taken yet?’ And then we realized, ‘Oh, yeah! It’s because we were just recently allowed Continue Reading

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Comics review: Misfit City Vol. 2

Posted on October 28, 2018October 5, 2019 by aussiemoose

  What a goofy-serious-’70s Scooby Doo-esque joy to be back with Wilder, Macy, Dot, Karma and Ed in Cannon Cove! After having a scarily-fun time of it with the witty aspirant teenagers in Misfit City Vol. 1 in which treasure maps were found, villains appeared and boring small town life Continue Reading

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Graphic novel review: Dan and Sam by Matt Watson and Oliver Harud

Posted on October 19, 2018May 22, 2019 by aussiemoose

  In amongst the joy and blissful contentment (yes, I am genuinely that happy) of my long relationship to the most wonderful man in the world, there is a niggling, barely-acknowledged thought – what if I ever lost him? It’s not something I actively entertain, of course, preferring to think Continue Reading

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Boo! Meow! Garfield goes BOOM! with new Fall comic book special

Posted on October 7, 2018January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOT In Comedy of Terrors, the fan favorite Garfield: Homecoming team of writer Scott Nickel and Antonio Alfaro reunite for a frighteningly fun Halloween tale, as a creature reaches through the television and into Jon’s living room. Luckily, Garfield is as brave as they come…oh, wait. And in The Fall Continue Reading

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Comics review: Hilda (full series of graphic novels)

Posted on October 6, 2018February 5, 2019 by aussiemoose

  It is a rare thing indeed to stumble across a character, and the world they and similarly-enchanting people and creatures inhabit, that remind you of the very best things you read when you were a child. If you’re an occasional pop culture nostalgist, someone like me who loves and Continue Reading

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Comics review: RuinWorld (issues 1-3)

Posted on September 23, 2018February 5, 2019 by aussiemoose

  Going on an adventure is generally a good thing. But not it appears in RuinWorld by Derek Laufman, where cities are few and declining, brigands abound, artifacts are scarce and worth their magical weight in gold, and not if you’re Rex, a half cat/half fox Ruin Hunter who is Continue Reading

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Comics review: The Weatherman (issues 1-3)

Posted on September 9, 2018February 6, 2019 by aussiemoose

  As cases of mistaken identity go, The Weatherman is a glorious technicolour-fabulous doozy. Well, mistaken in the mind of the weatherman himself, Nathan Bright, outrageously fun, good-naturedly lovable bad boy of Martian news some 750 years in the future where Mars and Venus are heavily-populated outposts of the human Continue Reading

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  • Graphic novel review: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Appearances, as we all know and have been instructed about repeatedly, can be deceiving. For one reason or another, people project one thing while living quite another, a white lie in most cases that avoids emotional entanglement, vulnerability or the need to share in something that Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
    (courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Delving deep into someone’s life over a long period of time is something rarely afforded to us unless they are a family member or close friend. We might know people well and converse, laugh and cry with them over all sorts of life events but really Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #124: GRANT KNOCHE, MO, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lil Nas X + Miley Cyrus
    (via Shutterstock) Life is a LOT. And while there’s no escaping that, you can find ways to work through the myriad of emotions that summons, including of course channeling it into some highly cathartic music. These five artists do that brilliantly and well and the resultant songs manage to get Continue Reading
  • Book review: Salvage by Jennifer Mills
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) What would happen if the world “ended” in slow motion? In other words, rather than the big bang and boom of the usual fall of civilisation that we have seen documented in all kinds of apocalyptic storytelling, what if the cataclysmic hell of the end of Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Flow
    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to emerge from watching a movie of any kind and feel both soothed and euphoric. Surely the two states are antithetical, with the more active one bludgeoning the other into emotional oblivion with boundlessly energetic vivacity? Or the former chilling you the Continue Reading
  • Breaking free: How Jim Henson and his team made the Muppets magic happen
    (courtesy Muppet Wiki / (c) The Jim Henson Company / Disney) SNAPSHOTThe illusions that have baffled me for years is when muppets go outside when they seem to break free from their puppeteers and become little sentient creatures….These movies were released before CGI was ubiquitous. These are in-camera effects. What Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Growing up should be a time of limitless optimism and possibility, a temporal place where imagination runs riot, adventure is the order of the day and all the burdens of the world don’t fall upon your still small shoulders. But sometimes, all those good and wonderful Continue Reading
  • Want to borrow some nostalgia? Head on over to Video Heaven
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTFor some thirty years, from the 1980s until their decline in the 2010s, video shops were crucial arenas for film culture – and both highbrow and lowbrow American cinema has documented their rise, fall and changing meanings. Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven, a labour of love ten years Continue Reading
  • Comic strip review: Sunday Funday Wallace by Will Henry
    (courtesy Simon & Schuster) SNAPSHOTA visual celebration of one of the most dynamic and imaginative comics since Calvin and Hobbes, this deluxe hardcover treasury celebrates includes every Wallace the Brave Sunday comic strip from 2018-2024, featuring original watercolors, character art, maps, and an introduction by the author. This book celebrates Continue Reading
  • Book review: In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre
    (courtesy Arsenal Pulp Press) For some people, working out where they fit in life in easy – one look and they know where it is and who they fit in with and they glide seamlessly into place with balletic ease. But others, and I suspect it’s the majority of people, Continue Reading
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