Ron Howard’s Eden is set soon after the First World War, where a doctor and his partner have been living alone on an island in the Galapagos. When new neighbours arrive, the sanctity of their haven is disturbed and all hell breaks loose.
REVIEWS: ShortBox Comics Fair Favorites for 2024
Comics publisher ShortBox may have folded this year, but Zainab Akhtar’s annual ShortBox Comics Fair still has a sparkling present and future. Open for October, a fabulously curated collection of digital indie works are for sale online. Featuring a ton of creators, some established and some just starting out, it’s a grab bag of wonderful…
VIZ Pubwatch October 2024
Welcome back to another Pubwatch, VIZ fans! It’s October, and you know what that means— NEW! YORK! COMIC CON! Also Halloween but that’s less relevant here. We’re going to talk about the VIZ panel at this year’s NYCC and review some new series, including the Magic: the Gathering themed manga Destroy All Humans: They Can’t…
Previously on Comics: Television and Hospital Bills
Hello hello hello! Here we are, back at it again. Just a short one for you today.
TIFF 2024 Review: Harbin Is a Spy Thriller Aiming to Educate
Harbin, set in 1909 Korea, then a protectorate of Japan, follows a group of resistance fighters trying to gain independence from Japan by assassinating the Prime Minister. For the freedom fighters, the fight for Korean independence has been long and arduous with countless lives lost, and this one last mission could end the Japanese occupation…
TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment Asks What Makes a Good Parent
In The Assessment, a couple living in a post-apocalyptic future try to pass a series of tests to determine whether they can qualify to have a child. But as the tests become increasingly dangerous and abstract, the couple begins to question their relationship and what they want from their world.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Survival of the Dead (2009)
Concluding a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Cora Linn Daniels and Sardia
Continuing a series examining the early days of American vampire fiction: Part 1 looked at the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Ambrose Bierce; part 2 discussed a story by James Kirk Paulding. Now, let us meet another author…
TIFF 2024 Review: In Without Blood, the Characters Wage a Personal War After Victory Is Declared
Without Blood is a long conversation between a woman and a man. They could be strangers. Siblings. Friends. Lovers. But what connects them is a nightmare that has changed the course of both of their lives and of so many others. Neither accepts that they’ve been waging their own personal wars, long after the real…
TIFF 2024 Review: Went Up The Hill Can’t Handle Its Dark Subject Matter
Went Up the Hill is an ambitious attempt to metamorphose a ghost story into something deeper and darker. Unfortunately, the film tries to juggle far too many themes and ends up unable to flesh out any.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Breaking Up is Hard to Do in Ren Strapp’s HOW COULD YOU
WWAC is excited to present an exclusive preview of the queer coming of age graphic novel How Could You, coming this December from creator Ren Strapp and Oni Press!
Previously on Comics: Awards, Stopping Project 2025, and Celeb Children’s Authors
Good morning from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. I’m here with a round-up of all the news from pop culture last week.