Sometimes you pick up a book knowing full well how it will end. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I picked up the science fiction graphic novel FUTURE, but that didn’t stop me from loving the journey. FUTURE is about the last astronaut on Earth, Murray Mielniczuk, and her wife Kay. Murray…
REVIEW: Pacific Rim: The Black is a Fun Return To Form For the Franchise
Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black marks the second (and most successful) time that Legendary Pictures has attempted to recapture the magic of 2011’s Pacific Rim. Three years after the most recent movie (2018’s Pacific Rim: Uprising) and ten years after the franchise began, The Black is a return to form for the kaiju versus mech…
REVIEW: Hellions #10’s Attack of the Chucky Doll
Hellions is one of those great comics where it’s easy to see talented creators levelling up in real time, and gosh, it’s fascinating.
REVIEW: Shadow Life Is a Heartwarming Look at Life Before Death
My father is in his last days. We know it. He knows it. But gosh is he stubborn about how those last days are going to go. He’s still of sound mind, though his body is failing him, but he’s got enough get up and go left in him to demand that we allow him…
REVIEW: Mirrorland by Carole Johnston
Think of a funfair mirror hall: things appear magnified, often distorted, real, yet otherworldly. We see ourselves reflected, but it’s not us. It’s more than that; a distortion of the truth. And sometimes, things can appear so evident when the truth has been so twisted and memories so repressed, and we don’t want to confront…
INTERVIEW: Wendy Chin-Tanner on Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
Poetry is Wendy Chin-Tanner’s first love. In her own poetic work, she calls on the influences of poets such as Audre Lorde, Ai, Sylvia Plath, Vera Pavlova, and Lorine Niedecker. For A Wave New World’s Chin-Tanner, poets are a kind of literary world superhero, because, she says, “they’re always trying to do the impossible —…
REVIEW: Demon Days: X-Men #1 Gives Us Samurai X-Men and Monstrous Marvels
Demon Days: X-Men #1 is a tale for the ages. In ancient Japan, the Oni are fighting back against humans for expanding into their territories and taking away the Oni’s food sources. Can humans and Oni, who once coexisted peacefully, find balance again?
Last Week’s Episode: Don’t Throw Away Your Shot (Please)
Well, it’s basically been a year into the pandemonium and this is still our lives, so I guess here’s some entertainment news for our continued lockdown existence. That being said, I do have hope with the vaccine rollout. If you’re eligible to do so, please go get your vaccine(s)!
Spacewarp, Shift and The 77: Reviving British Anthology Comics
The phrase “British comics” has, over recent decades, seen a quite drastic shift in meaning. For a long time, British comics were affordable entertainment that youngsters picked up at the newsagent with their pocket money, and which covered a variety of genres from knockabout comedy to swooning romance, sporting exploits to high-flying sci-fi. Today, however,…
Bug Boys: Outside and Beyond Brings more Sweet Stories about Growing Up
Sometimes, especially when the world is terrible, you just need something sweet. Bug Boys has always been a comic that brings such sweetness. Protagonists Rhino-B and Stag-B often spend their stories worrying about what it means to grow up and become an adult, but they meet adult mentors who teach them gentle lessons, and guide…
REVIEW: You Can’t Live Forever in The Eighth Immortal #1
Seven immortals live among us, enduring their own humanity as best they can through the ages. For everyone else, time may heal all wounds, but when one has nothing but time to relive history and trauma, there is no such healing. And there is never allowed to be an eighth immortal, or else…
REVIEW: Botanical Curses and Poisons: A Fascinating History of Sinister Folklore
Have you ever wondered what deadly nightshade tastes like, and how long it would take to kill you? Or why did they decide to call it mistletoe? Or why violets are so commonly displayed at funerals?
