(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Great big expansive sci-fi stories are always a huge delight to lose yourself in. While the really good ones ask some fairly intense questions about who we are and why we do what do (and why maybe we should rethink that because reasons), they also have Continue Reading
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#Halloween graphic novel review: Voyaging Vol. 1 – The Plague Star by George R R Martin (story) and art and adaptation by Raya Golden
(courtesy Penguin Random House) If really good sci-fi is all about to taking a great big, long, hard look at the dark soul of humanity, and the best of it is, then Voyaging Vol. 1 – The Plague Star by George R R Martin with art and adaptation by Raya Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: I Hate Fairyland – Volume 5: Gert’s Inferno
(courtesy Image Comics) Welcome back MUFFIN FLUFFERS! That’s the aggressively return encouragement we’re given on the back cover blurb and if you were afraid that you can’t go back to back to something as sublimely and manically perfect as I Hate Fairyland‘s first series of stories, then think again because Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Last West by Evan Young & Lou Iovino (writers) and Novo Malgapo (illustrator)
(courtesy Alterna Comics (c) Evan Young & Lou Iovino) Alternate histories are a flourishing genre and a really creative way to already established events that we now take for granted but which substantially changed the way our world is and how it works. The Last West by Evan Young & Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Astronaut Down by James Patrick and Rubine
(courtesy AFTERSHOCK) Staring down the existential barrel of oblivion as we currently are, thanks to an epidemic, climate change, AI, encroaching fascism and a thousand other malodorous life-ending ailments, we have become well used to storytelling that inhabits a future apocalyptic/dystopian storytelling landscape. Usually these stories operate as a weird Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Vern – Custodian of the Universe by Tyrell Waiters
(courtesy Penguin Random House) There is something deliciously liberating, no doubt for the creator every bit as much as the reader, of a premise being seized by the lapels with alacrity and enthusiasm and taken to some narratively imaginative and epic but emotionally intimate places. It’s rare that two play Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Once Upon a Time at the End of the World – Book one: Love in the Wasteland by Aaron, Tefenkgi & Loughridge
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Apocalypses are, even by the sound of the word, loveless, thankless, dark and ugly affairs. That makes sense – aliens/zombies/nuclear-crazed warmongers or climate change-stoking fossil fuel addicts have ended the world and with it, all the things we loved and that made the ugly hand of Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Agnes from S.P.A.C.E. chapters 1-3 by Sean Hall
(courtesy Artithmeric (c) Sean Hall) Sci-fi storytelling is always an escapist joy to read because it can pretty much go anywhere. In a universe where anything goes from lifeforms to defiance of physics to alternate universes without count, the narrative shackles are off and stories can be taken wherever the Continue Reading
Existence is absurd: Trailer and poster arrive for the fabulous weirdness of Strange Planet
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhat happens when you mush the everyday and the extraordinary to the most absurd level? Based on The New York Times No. 1 bestselling graphic novel and social media phenomenon of the same name, Strange Planet is an hilarious and perceptive look at a distant world not Continue Reading
Show the world what love is made of: Full trailer and poster drops for Heartstopper season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTNick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke) navigate their new relationship, Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kizzy Edgell) face unforeseen challenges, and Tao (William Gao) and Elle (Yasmin Finney) work out if they can ever be more than just friends. With exams on the horizon, a school Continue Reading