Ms Marvel, written by G. Willow Wilson and illustrated by a small, brilliant team of artists like Adrian Alphona, Takeshi Miyazawa, Ian Herring and Joe Caramagna, is one of the most extraordinary mainstream comic books on the market. Kamala, the lead, is a New Jersey-based teenager from a Pakistani family who gains superpowers and does …
Harjinder or Hari-Jan, has stuff to do. She works at the supermarket her parents run, is sprinting headlong towards A-Levels and wants nothing more than to work out what’s going on with her friend, Gazzy and her sudden hard left turn towards the pious. But then there’s VT, who doesn’t like her for no real …
Earlier today, I reviewed Ravinder Randhawa’s excellent Beauty and the Beast. Next up, it’s the turn of her new anthology, Dynamite.
Riding into town a few weeks ago to go to a friend’s book launch, I opened the tray on my seat and found this. A tiny shard of kindness left behind by a fellow traveler and your Sunday Moment of Zen.
The Pyramid is the centre of Gleam, a colossal structure whose inhabitants have their blood drawn regularly and are constantly shifted through different jobs. The regime in the Pyramid is proscriptive to the point of tyrannical but the alternative is so much worse. Out in the Discard, the feral jungle of abandoned buildings and resurgent …
Weegee was a legendary, and controversial, crime scene photographer. This photo, pointed my way by the fantastic Anne Bilson, is the antithesis of everything he’s best known for. It’s magical, the cinema audience suspended beneath the luminous cable of imagery carrying them away to somewhere better, or at least further away from their own lives …
Lucien de Fontein wants for nothing. He has an education, a roof over his head and is well fed, healthy and safe. The only thing he’s missing, is hope. Lucien is an Orfano, a child born with a deformity. The Orfano are feted by the noble houses and the price for Lucien’s education is the …
They say never open on a graph but I’m feeling rebellious today. This is from Statgeek and it’s a pie chart showing the voter turnout for the last General Election in the UK. You’ll notice the largest percentage there is marked DNV. That means Did Not Vote. You’ll also notice DNV is significantly larger than …
Mira is a barista. She’s also a trust fund baby, not really too sure what she’s supposed to be doing with her life and has just been dumped. Benji, her former boyfriend, has a tech startup. Called Verity, it’s a news aggregator site that includes searchable entries for everyone and everything in the news. Distraught, …
This is one of the most perfect pages of comics storytelling ever produced. It’s also this week’s Sunday Moment of Zen.