Every single character gets the chance shine here. This week we learn that there is more to Sirkka than was first shown us — that she is not just some shallow hedonist lazing around and thinking of pleasure all day. Read more…
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The idea of telling a story through the history of an object is not new and neither is the idea of that object being a gun. Still, if that\’s all there was to this story then it wouldn\’t be Garth Read more…
Dan Dare was one of the first comics that I ever read and it was the version from the fifties that I knew best. Anyone who came on board this enterprise expecting to get a straight take on that Dan Read more…
A fairly quiet episode this week. It didn\’t feel gentle in the way that Arkady\’s episodes did though. Whenever Alice is being moved around, moved into place, given how she was introduced, it makes you a bit nervous. Connor seems Read more…
I don\’t know what the hell Grant Morrison does with his comics but it feels like my head is being rewired every time I read one of them. This comic intersects with The Invisibles at important levels, intersects with Zenith, Read more…
This series answered a question that I am sure a lot of British people have asked themselves — why aren\’t we in space and what it would it have been like if we had managed to get our acts together Read more…
So, the story resumes this week, and Arkady takes us to meet Carolyn. Arkady is like a dollop of honey at helping all these introductions to both a new character and new ideas slide down. Everything seems bathed in sunshine Read more…
I am what is called a meta-textual reader — I just read the book I am reading, I read every single thing that is associated with it and then continue outwards and ever outwards from there. So a fair while Read more…
So, today there was something a little different being offered in stead of the Freakangels webcomic which is on a one week hiatus. Today Warren Ellis offers us some thoughts on his preoccupations with disaster fiction and the very British Read more…