Unrequited love is a terrible thing. But then so is love that is seemingly mutual and then never really goes anywhere, a flicker of romantic hope that holds so much promise but fails to deliver on it, crushing at least one of the people involve who wonders, understandably, again and Continue Reading
Comics
Worlds will collide: Official trailer released for Disney’s American Born Chinese
SNAPSHOT“Worlds will collide.” Jin Wang (Ben Wang), struggling with his school life and home life, meets the new foreign exchange student at his school, leading him to become involved in a battle between Gods of Chinese mythology. American Born Chinese is a series created by Kelvin Yu – a character Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Graphic novel Alice Ever After now available in volume 1 collection
SNAPSHOTAlice first visited Wonderland as a child. Now grown up, it’s become her only escape from a cold, harsh world that feels even less real—a distant family, a tormented lover, and a father with secrets he’ll do anything to protect. But in order to return to her fantasy, Alice will Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Fairlady (Volume 1) by Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni and Marissa Louise
Postmodern storytelling, that eclectic mixing of genres that characterises so much modern narrative activity, can really pay off in the right dividends. Far from being gimmicky, adroit bringing together of seemingly disparate elements can work spectacularly well as novel Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree made hilariously and affectingly clear Continue Reading
Not a protagonist was stirring, not even an anthropomorphic mouse … Merry Christmas to all and to all a good pop culture night!
It’s been a crazy, busy, pandemic-y year once again but even amongst all the stress and strain and plague, my hope, as it is every year, is that this Christmas … You will not find snowy monsters with big teeth pursuing you … but if you do, you’ll have good Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Twig by Skottie Young and Kyle Strahm
Saving the world is a big job. A huge amount is resting on whomever the protagonist happens to be – the fate of all life, time itself often and existential everything – and the one thing you don’t want to be on your first day saving whatever your world happens Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Wynd Book Two – The Secret of the Wings by James Tynion IV (writer) and Michael Dialynas (artist)
Fantasies always seem to convey, by some intangible sensibility woven into the word, the idea of limitless, epic adventure where anything can happen, anyone can exist and the world can be anything and everything. They are a feast for the imagination and that’s why they are seductive for so many Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
Halloween is a lot of things, scary, dark and horrifying well among them. The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young (I HATE FAIRYLAND) and Jorge Corona (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET) embraces all those tantalising terrific elements, and much more, in a seductively disturbing tale of what Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Buckhead by Shobo Coker and George Kambadais
We demand a lot from our storytelling. Not consciously of course (some notable extremes of fandom aside), but somewhere in that liminal space where unexamined thought and emotional need intersect, we crave a story that will enliven our sometimes dreary lives, that will seem inexpressively epic but accessibly intimate, and Continue Reading
Upending the fairytale! BRIAR wonders what might happen if Sleeping Beauty had to save herself?
SNAPSHOTBRIAR [is] a brand new four-issue limited comic book series from Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body, Iron Man, Halt and Catch Fire), rising artist Germán García (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land), and colorist Matheus Lopes (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) that Continue Reading