Way back in February 1992, when Bush (the first one) was president and the Soviet Union was freshly out of the picture, the comic book world was undergoing its own seismic changes. A band of upstart new kids on the block (not to be confused with the New Kids on the Block, still a thing way back in […]
As modern science runs amok, achieving things once unimaginable and unlocking the secrets of the universe, writing science fiction gets increasingly difficult. Things once considered the ravings of wild-eyed novelists with rich imaginations are being mass-produced and sold (the iPhone is basically the Hitchhiker’s Guide, people), and the list of truly amazing things you can toss […]
You could describe the world of Rick Remender’s Low, out now in a new a paperback collection, as pre-apocalyptic. Billions of years in the future, the sun has begun its next phase: the expansion into a red giant that will eventually swallow the Earth and much of the solar system. For tens of thousands of years, our planet’s surface has been […]
I only started to get into comics recently—the newer stuff, if only because I didn’t know where to begin when it comes to the classics like Wonder Woman. And then I heard about Leigh Bardugo’s YA adaptation of Wonder Woman and knew I had to read it immediately—what better introduction to a character I’d heard […]