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Aug 23, 2021
Alex Graham's "Dog Biscuits", a great instagram comic written and set during the 2020 pandemic.
Reading this over a year after it started feels different, as we've distanced ourselves from both the beginning of the pandemic as well...
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Aug 18, 2021
"The Photographer" by Guibert, Lefèvre and Lemercier is a nonfiction tour de force.
This comic has the reader following French photographer Didier Lefèvre as he accompanies a Doctors Without Borders mission into the heart...
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Jul 15, 2021
Urasawa's Pluto, a sci-fi masterpiece
Based on a story by Tezuka, the father of manga, Pluto mixes an almost-Disney-like atmosphere of techno-positivism with great horror...
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May 5, 2021
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John Ford, maybe the best short story you've never heard of.
This prose poem, which won a World Fantasy Award for best short story, reimagines Camelot as a train station and explores some of the...
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Apr 26, 2021
On a Sunbeam and This is how you lose the time war; two great sci-fi stories.
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Set in a futuristic world where spaceships look like fish and buildings float away in space, On a Sunbeam...
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Feb 6, 2021
Vorkosigan Saga by McMaster Bujold; reviewing my first obsession of 2021.
After finishing Ethan of Athos yesterday, I have read all the Vorkosigan books stories (I think) and, as a lot of the books and series I...
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Jan 14, 2021
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford, the best fantasy novel I read in 2020
The Dragon Waiting is a historical fantasy novel set in the late 15th century (early Renaissance) in an alternate universe in which the...
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Oct 21, 2020
Pompeo by Andrea Pazienza Review
I discovered Pompeo and Pazienza while browsing some of my local comic book shops (Akira Comics and Elektra Comics in Madrid). The cover...
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Sep 6, 2020
Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa Review and Commentary
One of the best stories I have read in the last couple of months, Frenchman Pedrosa’s “Three Shadows” stands out as a deep and emotional...
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Jul 13, 2020
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 may be my new all-time favorite.
The story is about Montag, a fireman in a world where books are prohibited and it is their job to burn books and the houses of their...
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Jul 13, 2020
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a fantastic romance novel.
This was my first read of the romance classic and I have to say I really enjoyed it. It is undoubtedly one of the best romances I’ve ever...
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Jul 13, 2020
Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli R&C
Spirited Away is generally heralded as one of if not the best movie by Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli and, after watching it for the first...
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