Graphic novel

Being late to the party is not always a bad thing. Especially in the near-eternal world of pop culture where, true, the latest and greatest thing does burn brightly and brightly in the ephemeral digital zeitgeist, creating the impression that once it’s gone, that’s it in terms of anyone else Continue Reading

Reading the Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman, now with a fourth very much welcome volume, is like falling into an affirming beautiful world in which anything is possible. It’s not perfect by any measure and Oseman goes to great lengths to be frank and honest about the challenges of love, Continue Reading

There is a real art to balancing a completely bonkers premise with some pithy, salient observations about the brokenness and weirdness of humanity which somehow still manages to hang onto something approaching hope, and Undiscovered Country, now back with a second off-the-wall Alice in Wonderland-meets-Mad Max narrative instalment, manages with Continue Reading

One of the tests of how well a story is told, particularly one told over multiple, decade-long instalments, is how easily you can leap into a later episode and still not only know what’s going on but what the characters mean to each other and how this world, so well Continue Reading

If Sea of Stars issues one through five proved anything, it’s that space is as far from boring as you can get. Admittedly at the start of one of the most imaginative graphic novels series you’ll ever come across, Kadyn, the nine-year-old son of long-haul space trucker Gil, thinks it’s Continue Reading

Stepping in a science fiction tale ripe with promise only to find it is all that you expect it to be and expansively so much more is one of life’s great pleasures. Well, on the assumption that you like science fiction aka sci-fi, of course. If you do, then you Continue Reading