(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
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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
Say goodbye to the apocalypse: Sweet Tooth season 3 drops full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe colorful postapocalyptic series begins at an isolated home in Yellowstone and follows Gus and Jepperd as they make their way to Colorado. The second season eventually brings the duo back to Yellowstone, but only for a short time: The finale ends with Gus, Jepperd, Wendy, and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Void Rivals Vol. 1 More Than Meets the Eye by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici and Matheus Lopes
(courtesy Image Comics) Storytelling universes are very much in vogue in Hollywood at the moment. The most well-known and most successful of the lot of them is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there are a great many far less successful pretenders to the throne including the D.C. Comics take on Continue Reading
Comics review: Dunce – Arctic Tales by Jens K Styve
(courtesy & (c) official Jens K Styve site) Discovering a new gold standard comic strip is always a rare and precious joy. While there are a lot of very good comic strips out there, few merit a “drop everything and look here!” response with this reviewer’s attention only being seized Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Haru (book 1) – Spring by Joe Latham
(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) Adventures are supposed to be grand and gloriously thrilling things, a step far away from the everyday that takes us to places beyond imagination and our lived experience to date. And while Haru: Spring, book one of a series that will take its protagonists through the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War by Mike Chen and Angel Hernandez
(courtesy Penguin Random House) Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War by Mike Chen (writer) and Angel Hernandez (art), is one of Continue Reading
“Overflowing with handcrafted charm…” … Robot Dreams drops a beautiful first full trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTDog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day after seeing a commercial on television, he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Indigo Children by Rockwell White and Curt Pires (writers) + Alex Diotto and Dee Cunniffe (artists)
(courtesy Image Comics) One of the rare thrills in life, which rarely is as exciting as we want it to be, is diving deep into a promising science fiction story and finding it is just as brilliantly engaging, if not more so, than you expected. Especially if the story in Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) Charlie and Nick are in love. Really and wonderfully, deeply and assuredly in love, and free from does-he, doesn’t-he vibes of earlier volumes of Heartstopper where the attraction was clear but the certainty of connection was not, the two guys Continue Reading