Comics

  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

  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

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

  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

  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

  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

  There is a tendency in apocalyptic literature to go for the frenetic juggler narrative-wise. Given the scenarios usually at play, this is reasonably understandable since we’re generally talking epic fights for survival and not a stroll in the park on Sunday. The problem with going hard and big, a Continue Reading

  Depending on where and who you are, Cannons Cove is either the site of your greatest, fondest childhood memories or a backwater with little to offer but boring jobs and creative nothingness. For fans of The Gloomies, an iconic film that defined many peoples’ childhoods, including dismissive uber-fans who Continue Reading

  As a writer who is, naturally enough, most comfortable with moving words merrily around a page, I am endlessly fascinated by the way artists, whose talents I most assuredly do not share alas, exercise their creative gift. This fascination increases inestimably when it is an artists drawing a comic Continue Reading