Saga is an exciting, touching, and constantly amusing breath of fresh air that starts with a scatological birth scene and proceeds to expand exponentially from there, out into space and beyond, with a wink and a nod. Alana and Marko are two (literally) star-crossed lovers from rival warring races who have, against the odds, managed to fall in love and conceive a child. Now on the run from both governments and an array of talented and hostile bounty hunters, they must survive long enough to […]
A gripping and horrific memoir of sorts about religion, music, obsession, electricity, and powers that exist beyond our world.
Something happened. A cursory glimpse at something like Kickstarter will reveal the two dominating themes that almost guarantee a successful project – anything zombie related or anything rooted in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The great tentacled one is ubiquitous – pasting his noodles onto board and video games, knitted toys, short films and more. Often this is nothing more than a simple skinning, a mask to cover a flimsy concept that will suddenly sprout gibbering monsters and slippery forms. But there are authors who are […]
A bizarre and filthy parody of erotic literature and misogynistic right-wingers from the slightly unhinged mind behind Fight Club.
Previous readers of Palahniuk will know what is coming up in this first paragraph. A warning. Like Fight Club, Choke and basically everything the man has written before, this book will be likely to offend a variety of people. It’s not as extreme as something likeHaunted – which after my recommendation did actually make a friend of mine feel a little ill and then look at me funny afterwards – but Palahniuk is still pushing the boundaries of taste here. Penny Harrigan is a clumsy […]
A realistic, vivid and quirkily illustrated coming-of-age comic about life at art-school and the uncertainty that goes along with it.
“What do you want to be in ten years?” This is the question posed by a tutor in Jamie Coe’s Art Schooled. This was also one of the first questions posed to my Animation class in one of the first weeks of my degree at a small art school in Surrey. And like my illustrated compatriots, my classmates and I all wildly overestimated what we’d be up to. My (soon to be) housemate was going to write the English Family Guy. Another friend was going […]
A gripping and deeply human look at faith, love and the pressures of being apart. Set among the stars and the collapsing earth back home, this is a stunning read.
Peter and Bea are a loving couple, spending every moment and thought together as they minister to the congregation that Peter is pastor of. Peter’s past is spotty at best, and he credits Bea for pulling him out of his spiralling issues with addiction and petty theft, replacing it with an unshakeable love for Jesus. But this bond is about to wrenched apart for the first time as Peter prepares for a long voyage to minister to a new audience a world away. His new […]
A fun collection of utter nonsense, framed as the pretentious ramblings of a delusional director.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace hit me at just the right time, the perfect blend of mocking satire and charming daftness being just what I needed in my last year of senior school. Directed and co-written by Richard Ayoade, it presented itself as the lost tapes of a forgotten 1980’s hospital-horror program, interspersed with talking head segments by the “crew” involved. My friends and I had a taped-from-TV VHS of the series (ugh, I feel old) that we passed around daily, memorising the dialogue and cracking up at […]
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