(courtesy & (c) official Jens K Styve site) Discovering a new gold standard comic strip is always a rare and precious joy. While there are a lot of very good comic strips out there, few merit a “drop everything and look here!” response with this reviewer’s attention only being seized Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Haru (book 1) – Spring by Joe Latham
(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) Adventures are supposed to be grand and gloriously thrilling things, a step far away from the everyday that takes us to places beyond imagination and our lived experience to date. And while Haru: Spring, book one of a series that will take its protagonists through the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War by Mike Chen and Angel Hernandez
(courtesy Penguin Random House) Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War by Mike Chen (writer) and Angel Hernandez (art), is one of Continue Reading
“Overflowing with handcrafted charm…” … Robot Dreams drops a beautiful first full trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTDog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day after seeing a commercial on television, he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Indigo Children by Rockwell White and Curt Pires (writers) + Alex Diotto and Dee Cunniffe (artists)
(courtesy Image Comics) One of the rare thrills in life, which rarely is as exciting as we want it to be, is diving deep into a promising science fiction story and finding it is just as brilliantly engaging, if not more so, than you expected. Especially if the story in Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) Charlie and Nick are in love. Really and wonderfully, deeply and assuredly in love, and free from does-he, doesn’t-he vibes of earlier volumes of Heartstopper where the attraction was clear but the certainty of connection was not, the two guys Continue Reading
Comic book review: Asterix and the White Iris by Fabcaro (writer) and Didier Conrad (illustrator)
(courtesy Hachette Australia) If you don’t have a magic potion to revive your spirits and strength every so often, or at least when a semi-threatening Roman legion is nearby, it can be easy to flag a little and to not be quite as peppy as you once were. That was Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Peculiar Woods – The Ancient Underwater City by Andrés J. Colmenares
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Losing your sense of place in the world can be a hugely debilitating experience. Thais applies regardless of whether the replacement for your status quo is good or bad since any change, even if you can adapt quickly to it, leaves you feeling unmoored and uncertain Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Coming into your own is, in theory, a wonderful thing to have happen. You know yourself, you get yourself and you live the kind of life that’s authentic and matters to you; that’s in theory, of course, which is a wonderful place to live where everything Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Good Luck by Matthew Erman and Stefano Simeone
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Great big expansive sci-fi stories are always a huge delight to lose yourself in. While the really good ones ask some fairly intense questions about who we are and why we do what do (and why maybe we should rethink that because reasons), they also have Continue Reading