So, what is it you want from a holiday? A chance to luxuriate by the poolside, drinking cocktails and reading a great book? How about gentle walks along a coastal trail, with towering trees on one side and an azure ocean on the other? Or perhaps you want an itinerary Continue Reading
Comics
Comics review: The Montague Twins – The Witch’s Hand by Nathan Page and Drew Shannon
Diving into a thrilling, mysterious adventure is one of the most exhilarating things you can do. While these are in short supply in the real world, given its predisposition to banality and the same-old, same-old, they are in multitudinous abundance in graphic novels such as the late-1960s set The Montague Continue Reading
Comics review: Adventureman by Fraction / Dodson / Dodson / Cowles
If you’re going to go on adventure from the comfort of your own home, and let’s face it, necessity has made this the only real option in a time of pandemic, then the only way to really make it worth your while is to plunge into the steampunk-esque, Art Deco Continue Reading
Sit up and take notice: The history of Mandalore explained
SNAPSHOTThe saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across ’90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained. (synopsis courtesy Laughing Squid) Keeping track of all the various Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good night!
2020 – what a year! And not in the “Woohoo! What a great year!” sense either. I mean, it wasn’t entirely awful, but every time it seemed like things were on the improve, everything went south again in spectacular fashion; case in point, Sydney is once again in the grip Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I hung 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Scooby-Doo!, Roger Rabbit, Onward, Laurel and Hardy + Captain Marvel, A Bug’s Life, Ghostbusters, Star Wars
If any year needs a filled to the tip of the needles Christmas tree, it is this one. (Let’s be honest, all years need festive decorating but 2020 really needs it.) I will admit to the fact that my Christmas in July tree never really came down – it’s a Continue Reading
Comics review: Cellies (Volume 1 & 2) by Joe Flood and David Steward II
Life can be pretty tough when you’re in that place between the formation of your dreams and their hoped-for fulfillment; tougher still when that place is wholly held afloat by a minimum wage job that doesn’t pay nearly enough for all the stress involved and buttressed by parents who don’t Continue Reading
Comics review: Star Trek Deep Space Nine – Too Long a Sacrifice by Tipton / Tipton / Scott / Sobriero
SNAPSHOTThe story is set during the Dominion War and is a noir-type story. David Tipton commented: “Set during the most difficult hours of the Dominion War, Too Long a Sacrifice shows the station during trying times: a series of mysterious and seemingly unsolvable terrorist attacks just as the war has Continue Reading
Comics review: Heartstopper (Volume 3) by Alice Oseman
Ah, the giddy joys of falling in love. All the wining and dining and dating and kissing and the glittering possibilities of things yet to come; it is hard not to be swept into the starry-eyed dance of romantic back-and-forth, culminating, if Cupid is smiling upon you, in getting together Continue Reading
Comics review: Tartarus by Johnnie Christmas and Jack T. Cole
Heading home can often be quite bittersweet. There are those things you remember fondly, the tropes and hallmarks of family life that bring warmth to your soul and a smile to your face; then there are the parts of being with the ones you know and love that induce teeth Continue Reading