SNAPSHOTTEX follows namesake character Tex Clapsaddle, an ambitious and imaginative eight-year-old learning to navigate the world outside his comfortable childhood. His parents, Barbara and Wayne, and siblings, Austin and Missy, are along for the ride as each character faces their own wild and momentous experiences. “TEX is a comic strip about that Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Wynd Book One – Flight Of The Prince by James Tynion IV (writer) and Michael Dialynas (artist)
The idea of being home, of having a home – and not just the physical dwelling but the intangibly ephemeral emotional sense of belonging t00 – is so universal that it’s taken as a given that everyone has one. But not everyone does; for a whole host of reasons, people Continue Reading
The next big thing arrives: Thoughts on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (S1, E 1-4)
Superheroes are, by and large, fairly serious individuals. Fair enough – duty and service, saving the world on a regular basis and a complete dearth of work/life balance would make if difficult for anyone to be too jocular or giddily upbeat, and as for kidding or joking round, especially in Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Comics review: Crowded (TP 3) by Sebela / Stein / Brandt / Farrell / Rae
Crowded TP 3 is a LOT. And that, it has to be said at the outset, is a very, very, VERY good thing. From the outlandishly bright and vivid colours of every panel to the characters who leap off the page so vivaciously and fulsomely realised are they to dialogues Continue Reading
Teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds: Find out why in new Peanuts animated special, Lucy’s School + season 2 trailer for The Snoopy Show
SNAPSHOTThe Peanuts gang are anxious about starting at a new school in the Fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead, but teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds. ‘Lucy’s School’ is a love letter to teachers, and an appreciation of the impact a teacher can have on a Continue Reading
More #ChristmasInJuly tree decorations: The Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland), Bernard (The Rescuers), Pixar’s Pizza Planet truck, Stitch (Lilo and Stitch) + Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
Yes, I am at it again! Adding yet more ornaments to my Christmas in July tree which is, really, just my Easter and Halloween tree pressed into triple duty. The Christmas in July tree is nowhere as lavish as my December efforts but still, it’s fun to bring some of Continue Reading
“I’m a superhero!” Thoughts on Ms. Marvel (S1, E1-6)
While Marvel films and TV shows are almost always universally well done, it can sometimes feel too much like boxes have simply been ticked- very well made boxes it must be said but boxes nonetheless – and often decades-old superhero comic book mythology has been observed and not much more. Continue Reading
Comics review: Are We Lost Yet? by Will Henry (Wallace the Brave collection #4)
There’s a lot of things we gain on our headlong rush to adulthood – increased self-choice, that special someone (hopefully), personal and career fulfillment; all of them mostly good and wonderful things – but there are some very precious things we lose. One of them is that sense of carefree Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Lightfall (book 2) – Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert
It makes your heart glad when you can return to a place and to characters you have come to love. Picking up Lightfall 2: Shadow of the Bird was one of those moments you have when consuming any kind of pop culture where you feel like you are back in Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: New character posters released for Thor: Love and Thunder
SNAPSHOTMarvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat Continue Reading