There is a great charm and sweet vibrancy to Flavor by writer Joseph Keatinge and artist Wook Jin Clark (with colouring by Tamra Bonvillain and lettering by Arian Maher) which deep into a world where food and its preparation, presentation and consumption is akin to a high religion which governs Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: Undiscovered Country: Destiny (Volume 1) by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule
There is such an extravagance of imagination, such an exhilarating deep dive into fantasy and wonder and weirdness on a grand scale, to Undiscovered Country that it is safe to say that it is one of the best graphic novels to come along in some time. The writers of the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Once & Future (V1: The King is Undead and V2: Old English) by Kieron Gillen + Dan Mora + Tamra Bonvillain
There are rare and special times when you read a graphic novel when you realise, within mere frames of the story’s commencement, that you are reading something very, very good indeed. That here is an adventure very worth taking, one with a wholly engaging story that compels you to keep Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Eight Outcast by Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson
Diving into a story fit to bursting with vivid imagination and expansive leaps of inspired storytelling is one of life’s great pleasures. And since Eight Outcast, with story and art by Rafael Albuquerque and script by Mike Johnson, is brilliantly and imaginatively told such that when reading you often gasp Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: King of Nowhere by W. Maxwell Prince / Tyler Jenkins / Hilary Jenkins
It may not be immediately obvious but at the heart of every fantastical tale, if its told well, of course, sits a vibrantly humanistic core. This is certainly the case in the King of Nowhere written by W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man) with artwork by Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
Smash the patriarchy! That may sound like a militantly abrasive way to start a review about a graphic novel but truth be told, it’s the perfect encapsulation of Hannah Templer’s Cosmoknights, queer story about three women who roam the galaxy seeking to bring a feudalesque system that for all its Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (Book 1): The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert
It’s no secret that life can be tough and unyielding at times, affording us precious little opportunity to push away reality away and pretend it simply doesn’t exist. Which is why inordinately delightful works like Lightfall (Book 1): The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert are such a joyous Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten
There is a quiet peace and an air of bucolic contentment that comes from knowing you belong to someone and belong somewhere that is your own. Contrast that sense of intimate belonging with the loss of it and the person that helped make it so and you have the Continue Reading
Can you resist the siren call of Oblivion Song?
SNAPSHOT A decade ago 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them but after many years they gave up. Nathan Cole… won’t. He makes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those lost, alone and afraid, living in Continue Reading
Stabbity Bunny: A diminutive comic book hero who defies expectations
SNAPSHOT The comic series, Stabbity Bunny, focuses of Grace Lee, a seven-year-old girl destined for incredible things, and Stabbity Bunny, a plush rabbit that has been passed down within the family for nearly 100 years. They live in Holiday, Vermont, a peaceful town filled with quirky, but amazingly good, Continue Reading