(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTYou may recall, moments before Heartstopper season 2 concludes, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) solidify their feelings for each other in a deeply vulnerable conversation. As honest as their heart-to-heart is, it seems there are things still left unsaid. “I love your hair. I love Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time by John Layman, Karl Mostert and Dee Cunniffe
(courtesy Aftershock Comics) Who of us hasn’t wondered, in ways endlessly big or thoughtfully small, what it would be like to jump into a time machine and see what the past looks like? To walk among the dinosaurs. See the Romans battle and subdue another city or state. See the Continue Reading
It ends where it all began: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth S3 (the final season)
(courtesy IMP Awards) What a journey this has been! What started as a reasonably small story about a hybrid boy/deer living in the depths of Yellowstone National Park, or really just Yellowstone since civilisational constructs have largely fallen into disuse in just under a decade of apocalyptic decay, has grown Continue Reading
Standing up for who you are and what matters: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth S2
The COVID pandemic gave rise to many a strange dynamic. One of them, and the one that impacted this reviewer most when it came to consuming everything from movies to streaming shows to books, was a willingness to dive into all kinds of plague-related and end of the world-set storytelling; Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne
(courtesy Image Comics) On the surface, the idea of a genie appearing before each and every one of the people currently alive on Earth and offering them one wish would be something miraculous and full of wondrous possibility. Think of the things that could be righted – world hunger, climate Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Know Your Station by Sarah Gailey / Kiana Kangas / Rebecca Nalty
(courtesy BOOM! Studios) A prevailing theme in many sci-fi stories is how, even in the future where things are supposed to get better, the rich seem to be richer and still in power while the poor continue to be treated like annoying but necessary resources who think far too much Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Paper Girls 5 & 6 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
(courtesy Image Comics) On the face of it, time travel seems like one of the most fun idea out there. What’s not to like about the chance to zap anywhere in history and see dinosaurs or kill Hitler or see what the Earth looks like in 1.2 billion years? But Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Garbage Night (The Complete Edition) by Benji Lee
(courtesy Walker Books) If you think you have seen everything possible about the apocalypse, then Benji Lee and his wondrously imaginative and affectingly thoughtful graphic novel, Garbage Night: The Complete Edition is here to urge you to think again. Set in a near-future Earth where humanity has just up and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (book 3) – The Dark Times by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to proclaim, in musically buoyant Mary Poppins fashion, that something is “practically perfect in every way” but that’s really all that can be said about each and every instalment of Lightfall by massively talented writer and illustrator Tim Probert– 1: Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Antarctica – Volume 1: Out in the Void
(courtesy Image Comics) You should always be wary when someone comes home from a job they can’t talk about at a place that officially doesn’t exist and then suddenly disappears after being called back there with little to no notice. And yet while angels and those possessing any sense of Continue Reading