SNAPSHOTTHERE IS A GIRL. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a GUARDIAN. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls. TOGETHER THEY WALK across an extraordinary fantasy world. If they leave the path the air itself comes alive, forcing them onwards. Why? The girl doesn’t Continue Reading
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Mini-mass of movie trailers: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, Ghosts: The Possession of Button House + Klara & the Sun
(via Shutterstock) This is a time grand confessions – I don’t particularly love popcorn. Scandalous, right? Actually, not really, but when you go to the movies as much as I do, a popcorn ambivalence doesn’t really fit with the usual moviegoing vibe (thought I do love choctops and lollies aka Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: pop culture synergy fun as The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe
(courtesy Nerdist (c) Marvel) SNAPSHOTThe iconic heroes of the Marvel Universe will soon join forces with none other than Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and all the other Muppets. Coming in September is The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe #1, from a creative team that includes writers Chip Zdarsky, Continue Reading
“Everyone thinks teenage relationships don’t last” … but what if they do, asks Heartstopper Forever
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHeartstopper Forever, written by Oseman and based on the highly anticipated final installment of their graphic novel series, bids farewell to a group of friends who have won viewers’ hearts since the series debuted in 2022. “Heartstopper starts like a fairy tale and a bit idealistic, in Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (Book 4): A Place Between by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) I cannot begin to express how much I’d love the storytelling brilliance and imaginative bravery of Tim Probert’s darkly warm and beautiful Lightfall series. Now four instalments in with the release of Lightfall: A Place Between, which follows from The Girl and the Galdurian (book #1), Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Ghost Fleet: The Whole Goddamned Thing by Donny Cates (writer), Daniel Warren Johnson (artwork) and Lauren Affe (colours)
(courtesy Image Comics) If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, you will know a thing or two, cinematically firsthand, about what it feels like for someone to narratively put the pedal to the metal and never once depress it. It’s a blockbuster pellmell ride into action excess and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Trick Pony by Greg Lockard (writer), Anna David (artist) and Lucas Gattoni (letterer + designer)
(courtesy Dark Horse Comics) Making peace with your past is never easy. Oh, wellness gurus and not a few self improvement books will guarantee it’s a simply a matter of throwing away the past, embracing the present and voila! a shiny new future awaits you, shorn of trauma and loss Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Haru (Book 3) – Fall by Joe Latham
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) It’s easy to think that war and hatred, bigotry and violence are far more powerful than love and peace, joy and community. After all, the former are emphatically bombastic and loud; they look powerful, they appear menacing, bristling muscular energy of the worst, most destructive kind Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Haru (Book 2) – Summer by Joe Latham
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Heroes are often portrayed as larger than life, towering giants capable of great things and possessed of qualities we mere mortals can only hope to dream of. But in the 21st century particularly, another sort of hero has emerged, one which has feet of clay, human Continue Reading