Graphic novel

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

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

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

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

  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

  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

  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

  One of my favourite things in this postmodern pop culture world of ours is when someone of great imagination takes a well-known and well-loved story and inverts and subverts it to an entirely new end. Apart from the fact that it’s a cleverly creative thing to do, it offers Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Debuting next month from Image Comics, Angelic is set in a future that humans have long since been erased from, leaving nothing but ruins and the highly intelligent animals they experimented on in their wake. One such tribe of animals is a group of religious-winged monkeys, one of Continue Reading