I can’t stop playing Alone, it’s unmercifully fast, beautiful and addictive. The crisp look is matched with a deceptively simple challenge; slide up or down to move your ship, and don’t hit anything. In addition to a sharp appearance it has a stellar soundtrack, but what makes Alone really stand out is just how absurdly fast […]
Chrononauts by Miller and Murphy
Lets not waste time. I could go on about how Chrononauts is essential time travel reading, how with this series Murphy and Miller can put their names next to Wells and Zemeckis, but I thought it might be easier to include this frame of a fighter jet whooshing past some dinosaurs. I think that says […]
Click, Click, DOOM! Six-Gun Gorilla by Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely
Welcome to the new frontier, they call it “The Blister”. Sometime in the 22nd century, mankind has been fighting a civil war over what’s left of the fertile land on a far off post-apocalyptic planet. Watching the tide of the war shift one way or another is a great source of entertainment back on Earth, but […]
Burakku Majikku M-66 (Black Magic) by Masamune Shirow
Masamune Shirow’s earliest OVA is an underrated classic. In the wake of Ghost in the Shell it’s easy to pass over Shirow’s earlier works. Appleseed has continued to grow as a series over the years, its latest installment Appleseed Alpha was as recent as 2014. And the Dominion series had Tank Police Team Tank S.W.A.T. 01 […]
East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
Dystopian Science-Fiction Western Comic Series East of West is that rare breed, elusive even among sci-fi westerns which are usually in space, of Weird-West and takes place right here at home. The apocalypses has come, but not all the Horsemen are equally excited to bring about the end. Death it would seem has some unfinished business. Written by Jonathan […]
Sci-fi Under the Sea, Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini
In a sea of sci-fi, Low explores new depths. While my head is usually among the stars, it’s nice to imagine other worlds closer to home. And where on Earth is more other-worldly than beneath the seas? Now imagine you fast-forward a few millennia, we’ve never made it off Earth, we have to retreat under the waves, […]
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