Comics

  As previously reviewed modern comic book iterations of Scooby Doo, The Flintstones and Wacky Races have illustrated, reviving an old pop culture property, in the case of Future Quest, quite a number of them, comes with a unique set of challenges. Not insurmoutable challenges of course but fairly sizable Continue Reading

  Compelling though many protagonists are, and they need to be if you’re going to make it to the end of the average novel, it’s a rare thing indeed to fall headlong in love with a lead character to the extent that you do with the whimsical, trusting but ultimately Continue Reading

  Something tells me that the newly-ruined earth in which the just-united Scooby gang emerge in this considerably darker take on the perennial Hanna-Barbera favourite is not going to be easily-righted by the end of one their franchise’s normally light-and-airy “And I would’ve gotten away with it too if it Continue Reading

  The apocalypse is upon us once again, bringing it with a radically different take, not to mention three-headed mutants, on Hanna-Barbera’s classic late ’60s road race, Wacky Races. The somewhat still-playful title aside, this is a considerably darker take on the cartoon series which featured 11 cars, 23 characters Continue Reading

  MOOCH: “Earl, can you tell me a shtory?” EARL: “Okay. Once upon a time …” MOOCH: “Uh … I’ve heard that one.” So shhh-stop me if you’ve heard this one … A mostly non-anthropomorphic cat and dog (they can talk but largely act like animals), let’s call them Mooch and Continue Reading

  You get the impression that Stephan Pastis, one time insurance claims litigator and now irreverently funny and über-successful cartoonist of hit comic strip Pearls Before Swine, is the kind of man who doesn’t like to play it safe. Well, not any longer, anyway. Realising after one year of law Continue Reading

  Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts and Mutts aside, is pretty much my favourite comic strip of all time. Drawn by the enigmatic almost J D Salinger-esque Bill Watterson, who has been the subject of a recent movie and book, both of which were aimed at finding out more about the Continue Reading

  Along with tens of millions of people worldwide, I am a lifelong, diehard Peanuts fan. Some of my earliest memories are of buying the paperback editions of Peanuts collection from the local second-hand store for 10 and 20c each and settling back into the delightful world of Charlie Brown Continue Reading