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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...
Aug 23, 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...
Aug 18, 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...
Jul 15, 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...
May 5, 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...
Apr 26, 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...
Feb 6, 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...
Jan 14, 2021


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...
Oct 21, 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...
Sep 6, 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...
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...
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...
Jul 13, 2020
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