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Graphic novel review: King of Nowhere by W. Maxwell Prince / Tyler Jenkins / Hilary Jenkins

Posted on February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 by aussiemoose

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

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Graphic novel review: Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer

Posted on February 9, 2021February 8, 2021 by aussiemoose

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

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Graphic novel review: Lightfall (Book 1): The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert

Posted on January 19, 2021June 3, 2024 by aussiemoose

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

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Graphic novel review: Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten

Posted on March 11, 2018May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  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

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Can you resist the siren call of Oblivion Song?

Posted on March 7, 2018May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  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

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Stabbity Bunny: A diminutive comic book hero who defies expectations

Posted on October 25, 2017May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  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

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Dark Ark: Noah wasn’t the only one saving the condemned beasts of the earth

Posted on September 10, 2017May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  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

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Would a world without people be Angelic? We’re about to find out

Posted on August 19, 2017May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  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

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Can a chirpy imaginary blue horse save a life? We find out in Happy! (graphic novel review)

Posted on August 9, 2017May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  Balancing light and dark in any story is always a tricky proposition. Veer too much to the bright and cheery and you risk leaching the narratively-necessary darkness from the more intense elements of your storyline; but go too dark and the comic quotient looks oddly out of place and Continue Reading

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Living Level 3, South Sudan: Graphic novel shines an important light on a desperate situation

Posted on April 19, 2017May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  It’s been well-documented that art and pop culture can have a powerful effect in spreading information and awareness, creating a groundswell of understanding and motivating action that leads to real change. One quite striking way this is being demonstrated at the moment is a 48 page graphic novel, Living Continue Reading

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  • “You think you’re in control of this… You’re not.” The electric second full trailer for Tron: Ares
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) When you’re diving into a festive rom-com read, you hope and pray that you’ll be served up lashings of magical romance and renewal and healing in bountiful measure. That’s precise you get in the magnificently heartwarming joy and wonder that is Christmas is All Around by Martha Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly retro movie review: Christmas in July
    A lot can happen in just one day! Just ask Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), the protagonist of the 1940 Preston Sturges film, Christmas in July, who’s a grunt office worker from a working class neighbourhood of New York City who heads off to his menial day job in an office Continue Reading
  • #ChristmasInJuly book review: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Who doesn’t adore a good love story? Even better, one set at Christmas when everything is at a peak of wonderfulness, magic is in the air and anything and everything seems possible (bar finding a parking spot at the locla mall but then, that’s a whole other Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Most superhero movies, if you look beyond the bangs and the booms and the epic struggles for curdely painted yet titanic struggles between god and evil, are about connection. Friendship, camaraderies, even family figure strongly, even with figures like Batman or Iron Man who might otehrwise be Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #126: Sally Shapiro, Parcels, Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams, Juno Mamba & edapollo + Tiësto/Odd Mob & Goodboys
    (via Shutterstock) Making music is, like a lot of creative endeavours, driven by individual talent and imagination. But often where the magic really happens is when likeminded, talented souls come together and in this case at least, literally make sweet music together. It’s a thrill to see and a joy Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: William of Newbury by Michael Avon Oeming
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Fascinating though it may be for past events junkies like this reviewer, history doesn’t come alive for everyone. It’s a real pity because not only is delving into the annals of history brilliantly interesting but it ensures, as the adage reminds us, that we are familiar Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti book #2) by Malka Older
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading
  • Star Trek: Strange Worlds review: “Hegemony, Part II” and “Wedding Bell Blues” (S3, E1-2)
    (courtesy IMP awards) One of the things, of many, which I have loved about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) from the very start is its embrace of genre-hopping, a willingness to be darkly serious one week and goofily quirky the next. The Original Series (TOS) and Next Generation (NG), Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
    (courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) All of us, to some extent or another, come to appreciate through the course of our lives just how the present owes to the past. It’s not simply that one leads to the other though that is very much a part of what takes place Continue Reading
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