(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHeartstopper Forever, written by Oseman and based on the highly anticipated final installment of their graphic novel series, bids farewell to a group of friends who have won viewers’ hearts since the series debuted in 2022. “Heartstopper starts like a fairy tale and a bit idealistic, in Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading
“My childhood has lead to me to this moment…” Stuart Fails to Save the Universe drops a teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTComic book store owner Stuart Bloom (starring Kevin Sussman) is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain Continue Reading
Rabbits and chicks and glittery carrots oh my! I decorated my Easter tree with 5 pop culture ornaments
(via Shutterstock) Are Easter trees really a thing?! It’s a common reaction when I tell people I have one, and that I decorate it every year, and I have to explain that yes, they exist – mine was bought at Bed, Bath and Table at post-Easter sales many years ago Continue Reading
Comic strip review: Unsupervised: A Crabgrass Comics Adventure by Tauhid Bondia
This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2026. Ah, the carefree joys and fun of childhood. As adults, we all look back to that time of our life, or we are supposed, with a wistful, sigh-laced nostalgia, having lost all of the playfulness and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos by James Tynion IV and Tate Brombal (writers) and Isaac Goodhart (artist)
(courtesy Tiny Onion / Dark Horse Comics) This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2026. Who are the real monsters? It’s question often asked in storylines where the obvious monsters turn out to be the good guys, or at least not the most reprehensibly Continue Reading
Conquering the TBR like a mountaineer: My top 25 books of 2025
(via Shutterstock) I can overstate how much reading means to me. It makes commutes feel fleeting and full of characters and events and excitement it would otherwise meaningfully lack. It fills my stressy moments with such a profound sense of escapist release. And it dials down my anxiety and sense Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I added another 10 new pop culture ornaments to my tree incl. Scooby-Doo, Peanuts’ Spike, Miffy + more
(via Shutterstock) Forget decking the halls … at least for right now! With Christmas almost upon us, adding more pop culture ornaments to my tree is the order of the day, and yes, while I buy far too many new ones every year – is there such a thing? I Continue Reading
Happy festive 75th anniversary Peanuts! Review of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
(courtesy Amazon) SNAPSHOTThe special consists of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmas time situations. (courtesy Peanuts wiki) You have to feel a little sorry for any of the Peanuts’ Christmas specials that followed in the wake of the classic A Charlie Continue Reading
Festive comic book review: Cartoon Network Christmas Spectacular
Spending Christmas with those you love is always a joy. And that goes for fictional characters too like many of the gang from Hanna-Barbera, an animation house founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1957, former MGM employees who gifted the world the hilarious manic delights of Tom and Continue Reading