Right – Where Were We? Editor’s note: the following has been redacted to prevent our over-enthusiastic reviewer giving away too much of the plot. Want to know those vital details? Buy the book! Readers will recall that Dark Nebula #11 finished with not one but two cliffhangers as our two protagonists found themselves flung through …
When last we… nebulised (?)… Not a recap issue. Not a one-off story. Readers new and old have been brought up to speed with the Dark Nebula, so now it’s time to dive back into the mythos. At the very end of Dark Nebula #10, we were tantalised by the sudden appearance of Cerellus, the …
Thirty Years in the Making The publishing history of Tad Pietrzykowski’s iconic Aussie superhero is long… and short. As detailed in a previous review, The Dark Nebula first appeared in 1982, spent the next decade appearing in various titles under the Cyclone banner (including eight issues of his own title), then… he went away. In …
Were you ever in a writing class and teacher said “I want you to write a story based on the following phrase…”? It would appear that somebody in the Reverie stable has posed that very challenge. The phrase in this case is “Too many chooks”. The result is Vamoose #1, a collection of stories by …
Superpowers can be treated as a gift or a curse, depending on which fictional character you ask. Ask the question from Charles Xavier or Max Eisenhardt, and they’ll tell you it’s a gift. Ask the Morlocks and it’s a curse. Chimera #1 is a story of a curse – a plague on a woman’s life. …
We all grew up fed a stream of American films, TV series, and of course comics. Whether it was Marvel or DC, what we read was always based on American culture, locations, and language. So, when an Australian comic came along, it was always great to read about us, our culture, and language. During the …
Everyone Poops. That little phrase is both a fairly self-evident fact and the title of an iconic children’s educational book originating in Japan. So iconic is the US translation in fact, that it has often found its way into that barometer of American culture – the sitcom. So yes – everybody needs to attend the …
In a world where heroes and villains are hyperheroes and hypervillains, there’s a reluctant neutral that is the strongest among them. It’s hard to like villains who only care about themselves or to stay in love with heroes deluded with their own acts. Torn #1 is a story that skirts the neutrality of it all, …
Comics are fun! If any central message is to be gleaned from Rob Lisle’s quirkily offbeat series The Devil’s Toilet, that must surely be it. Don’t come here for dark commentaries on the human soul or paeans of praise for the special nature of humanity and their place in the universe. Do come here if …
In many stories, some heroes stumble into adventure. They are those people who push on headlong, consistently carving through their path. It seems Toby is the second type: the one where the adventure stumbles upon our hero. Toby and the Magic Pencil #2 is an enjoyable knockabout story that tries to do a lot of …
