This was something permanently lodged in my brain as something that presented the whole idea of a post-apocalypse world in a more realistic way than a lot of comics and other media. It was bleak, and McMahon\’s stylised art seemed Read more…
Category: science fiction
Vonnegut uses the perfect framing device for this novel wherein a timequake bumps everyone back in time ten years to run through that whole decade of their lives again. He starts off by leading us in by the nose with Read more…
I think one of the things that I am enjoying most about the characters of the Freakangels is how we are allowed to see the way the main protagonists have been damaged by whatever event has taken place in the Read more…
This week a lot of the geographical world seemed to hang together more in a visual sense than just a notional one. We got to meet another of the Freakangels: Kirk. The story-telling thus far in both the art and Read more…
Please check out our sister site — it houses some older pieces that were culled from a scattering of poetry and writing blogs and some newer pieces. All of it is worth a read and I would appreciate any comments Read more…
As should be the way, with each new character that is introduced a new layer is added to the story, and thanks to the pacing, the subtlety of which is truly starting to emerge after 6 episodes, each of the Read more…
You could maybe say that it was the kid\’s version of Twin Peaks but that wouldn\’t really be true; it wasn\’t that serious. Maybe it had something of Northern Exposure about it. Or you could just drop the comparisons and Read more…
This story gets better and better — the characters already seem to possess so much soul. I remember how by the end of Transmetropolitan, or rather from the beginning, you felt Spider\’s reality: it is the same here. Thus far Read more…