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Creator: Sid Quade Self-published, July 2023 Giles Gridley and his sister Alexandra are of the Kaftar people, who live in a desert city reminiscent of Timbuktu. The story begins with Giles rummaging around his house, looking for things to take with him as he prepares for exile on the orders of the city’s leader, Chieftain … Read more
Writer: Christos Cage Artist: Luca Casalanguida Dynamite Comics, October 2021 Bond stories tend to be formulaic. This one, entitled James Bond: Agent of Spectre, is not. This is the promotional copy: There’s a civil war brewing within SPECTRE. An upstart American member of the international criminal organization is attempting a coup, threatening to depose Ernst … Read more
Writer: David Wilburn Artist: Rafael Romeo Magat Broken Face Comics, November 2023 For a waypoint of the genre of science, cyberpunk was brief, inherently doomed to obsolescence but its very nature. Near-visions of the future are quickly overtaken by reality. But cyberpunk has benefited from a relatively recent 1980s nostalgia revival, in pop culture fuelled … Read more
Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: John Timms DC Comics, March 2024. Reading Superman stories involving Bizarro, a flawed duplicate of Superman first appearing in 1958, is likely to induce a mild headache. Everything the character says needs to be read in the negative, and occasionally the double-negative. (Creator Otto Binder has a lot to answer for.) … Read more