Book Review: Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell is a collection of comics issues based on Hanna-Barbera characters, with a more realistic bent. This is a story about standing up for what is right, despite the consequences. It’s about the place of the arts in society, as a constant mirror to the absurdity of […]

Book Review: Edison by Torben Kuhlmann

Edison by Torben Kuhlmann follows Pete and the Professor as they decide to search for the missing treasure of Pete’s ancestor. Their investigation determines the location of the ship that sank carrying the treasure. Pete decides he is going to find a way to get the treasure. The Professor declines helping until he rescues Pete […]

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Love is Love by Dr Michael Genhart & illustrated by Ken Min Love is Love by Michael Genhart is a touching tale showing how all families are valid, no matter how they are organised. One young child has been teased because he was wearing a shirt with a rainbow heart, told his shirt is ‘gay’, and […]

Book Review: Harbinger by Nicole Conway

Harbinger continues Conway’s Dragonrider Legacy series, splitting time between Jenna, and Reigh, as things really begin to heat up in the war against the Tibrans. Some time is spent with Reigh and Jaevid, setting up Reigh’s next parts, but the bulk follows Jenna. She and Phillip are captured, and Argonox has a proposal for Jenna. […]

Book Review: Rattus New Yorkus by Hunter Shea

Rattus New Yorkus is another fun, cheese-filled horror offering by Hunter Shea. Chris and Benny are exterminators contracted by New York to help control the pest population. At urgings from city and scientists, the city exterminators are testing out a new position called Degenesis. This new chemical is said to work against rat reproduction, making […]

Book Review: Fresh Ink edited by Lamar Giles

This collection, written by a diverse cast of authors, presents a variety of equally diverse stories featuring PoC main characters, a plethora of LGBTQ+ characters, and a slew of those with unusual mental/physical conditions. It was refreshing to me to step away from a mostly white story cast. I’m an anthropologist. Characters like the ones […]

Book Review: See All the Stars by Kit Frick

See All the Stars by Kit Frick follows Ellory, as she rejoins her peers for senior year after having been gone for some time due to an incident she simply calls the fall. The story alternates between the past, leading up to the fall, and the present, where Ellory is trying to work through things […]

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Wolf Sanctuary by Chuck Rineer Wolf Sanctuary by Chuck Rineer is a dazzling compilation of photographs that the author took of the wolves at Wolf Sanctuary of PA, a preservation and education facility run by the Darlington family. There are ten chapters, each with brief written introductions, and full of stunning photos. While there is […]

Book Review: Tracing Ochre edited by Fiona Polack

Tracing Ochre is a collection of essays delving into the history, culture and supposed disappearance of the Beothuk, a people indigenous to Newfoundland. Driven to relative cultural extinction thanks to colonialism, new perspectives are breathing life back into stagnant ways of thinking regarding this supposedly ‘lost’ tribe. The interconnection between the Beothuk, neighboring tribes, and […]

Book Review: The Royal Order of Fighting Dragons by Dan Elish

When danger threatens, one group is there to save the day- the Royal Order of Fighting Dragons. Formed by King Arthur when a deadly swarm of prehistoric locusts are magically summoned to terrorise the world, the Order has maintained its discreet presence over the centuries, coming together each time someone renews the summoning. Thus far, […]