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Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Rush built the Croft’s network to be the exact …

Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan

Bad Luck Chuck Issue 1

There’s a panel early on in Bad Luck Chuck which is about as close to perfect comics as you can get. It’s this: As character sketches go you don’t get any better. Chuck is a bad luck magnet. Chuck is a broken mirror with an hourly rate. Hire Chuck and the fix isn’t just in, …

Bad Luck Chuck Issue 1

Destroyer

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here.   Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is a film that haunts you from …

Destroyer

Moonframe

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 22nd February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. The cloud is now the Moon. Project Moonframe turned …

Moonframe

The Endless

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 15th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cAsmQS610] When I was 15 or so I …

The Endless

The Sleep Consultant

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 1st February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Robin Sloan is responsible for two of my all-time favorite …

The Sleep Consultant

Nightlight

This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 25th January 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Tonia Thompson’s Nightlight focuses on horror stories written and narrated by …

Nightlight

Retrograde Orbit

Kristyna Baczynski is one of the most prolific, and unique, artists working in the U.K. indie comics scene. Her work is vibrant, witty, unlike anything else around and essential. She also does an occasional and hilarious podcast with Greig Johnson that is one part space drama, one part de-clluttering and one part pop culture discussion. I’m a big …

Retrograde Orbit

Short Treks

Happy Captain Space Dad Day!  This hasn’t been widely advertised, at all, but Netflix finally have the Short Treks thats have been released monthly in the US. They’re under Trailers on the Netflix page for Star Trek: Discovery and are four 15 minute or so mini episodes focusing on individual characters. They’re also wildly different, very weird, deeply moving …

Short Treks

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