It makes your heart glad when you can return to a place and to characters you have come to love. Picking up Lightfall 2: Shadow of the Bird was one of those moments you have when consuming any kind of pop culture where you feel like you are back in Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: The Aquanaut by Dan Santat
Ask anyone who knows me and they will say, hand on heart, that what I love most of all when it comes to storytelling is a quirky premise, something that dances with alacrity and glee a little, or a lot left of centre, and which is gentle surreality and heartwarmingly Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Bubble by Morris-Morgan-Cliff-Reiss
Who says you can’t cross media without leaching the life and fun out of the source and leaving a pale, timid imitation in its wake? Bubble, in all its gloriously colourfully imaginative and sharply satirical is proof positive that you can take a podcast-based audio serial, which played out over Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti
It is rare, so supremely rare, to find a story in any genre or format, that feels as if it simply cannot be improved on. Many come close but few feel so immersively perfect, so vividly alive with character, narrative and faultless execution, that you can truly say they are Continue Reading
Comic book review: Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (adapted by Jason Cooper and illustrated by Robert Pope)
Adapting the work of any well-known and much-loved comic strip artist, especially one as iconically revered as Charles M. Schulz who, over almost 50 wonderful years, gave Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and more, must be a daunting undertaking. Especially when you’re seeking to adapt one of the strip’s endlessly Continue Reading
The journey begins anew for Jessica Harrow in GRIM for whom death is just the beginning
SNAPSHOTJessica Harrow is dead. But her journey has only just begun! Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination. But unlike the rest of the Reapers, she has no memory of what killed her and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Wars – Doctor Aphra (Vol. 1-2, issues 1-9) #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
There is a lot going on in the Star Wars universe (unless, of course, you are on of those people still mourning the killing off of the Expanded Universe in which case it is no longer quite big enough). That is quite possibly because despite catching up with all the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal by Garth Ennis and Goran Sudžuka
There is a gloriously mischievous energy that tumbles with vivacity and cheekiness through every last frame of Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, a graphic novel which imagines with imaginatively unholy glee what might happen if Lara Croft has a few less scruples, a whole lot more je ne sais quoi and Continue Reading
The beginning of one thing can be the rest of everything: Get ready to fall in love with Heartstopper
SNAPSHOTThe story of two British teens, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together in class. Their friendship quickly becomes something more for openly gay Charlie, but he Continue Reading
Graphic novel preview: Far from Wonderland, is it a one-way ticket to the asylum in Alice Ever After?
SNAPSHOTAlice first visited Wonderland as a child. Now grown up, it’s become her only escape from a cold, harsh world that feels even less real—a distant family, a tormented lover, and a father with secrets he’ll do anything to protect. But in order to return to her fantasy, Alice will Continue Reading