Foreboding spirits lurk in the background of these short stories by Emily Carroll. Demons burrow under the skin, a wife seeks revenge from beyond the grave and a young man believes his brother has been replaced by an imposter. These five short gothic stories are fantastically eerie folktales, populated by people consumed by jealousy, fear and loneliness. One of the stories, His Face All Red, first appeared online, and it’s interesting to see it rearranged from its original vertical scrolling incarnation. You can have a read […]
Alexandro Jodorowsky’s Screaming Planet
Alexandro Jodorowsky is a genius, I have no doubt. He’s also absolutely bat sh*t insane. Which leads to some truly intense writing, and even more so vision. Screaming Planet is a set of stories (but for one) created for Metal Hurlant, a French anthology series along the lines of Heavy Metal. The screaming planet of the title is an asteroid from a long ruined planet that streaks through the universe, passing its sorrow to those sentient creatures it feels a kinship with. As […]
A frenetic and pulpy injection of dimension-leaping madness.
Like the 90’s TV show Sliders dipped in a swirling pot of multicoloured paint, Black Science traps a small group of scientists and hangers-on in a constantly shuffling world, as they traverse alternative universes hoping to stumble upon the right parts and equipment to fix their machine and head home. Grant McKay, self-professed trailblazer and ‘Anarchist Scientist’ is a conflicted chap. On one hand, he has successfully broken through the barriers of reality with the Pillar, a device of his own creation; but on the other, he’s now trapped […]
As told by a dead bunny and a butterfly
This book is mysterious, intervowen, beautiful, almost childish in its narrative, but definitely not in plot. It is a story told in past tense between a skeleton of a rabbit and an orange butterfly traveling across an unknown place. The rabbit tells the story of Sissy; a young girl with two different colored eyes. She travels with a man named fox from city to city, earning a living as story tellers. In one of the towns a man gives Sissy quite an important piece of […]
When Good Superheros Go Rogue
I have a confession to make. Please don’t judge me for this, but before I saw The Avengers I didn’t know anything about Marvel Comics. I hadn’t seen any of the other movies yet. I’d heard about them, of course, but they never interested me enough to really make the effort to see them. After The Avengers, though, I made a point to watch them all and now own most of them. I eagerly read each piece of news about the new movies as they […]
Girls, Girls, Girls!
This graphic novel, published this year, is a short story about two girls (early teens) whose families meet every summer in Ontario at Awago Beach. Rose is an only child whose parents seem fairly ordinary. Windy is an adopted only child who goes to the beach with her mother and grandmother. It is a “coming of age” story that has been getting favorable reviews within comic book circles and even from the New York Times. For a short story (you could easily read it in […]
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