Comic Book Piracy or How to Kill What You Love
If you happen to read comic books then it can be safely assumed that you are a fan of the medium. Be it vigilantes swinging between buildings, alien space invasions …
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Grendel’s Mother or the Problem of Perpetual Escalation
Last night it was hot, as in at 4 AM it was 29c and heading for a 39c day. Sleep was difficult to find and, not surprisingly, my thoughts turned …
Indie Spotlight: Preheat
Last year I went to the Supanova convention in Melbourne, where I found someone I knew helping to man a booth in their equivalent of artists alley. While I was …
Monkey: It’s a type of Magic.
In 2016 I found myself in the United States of America for a couple of weeks, where I encountered the utterly bizarre part of US culture that is American TV. …
Superman: Electric Boogaloo
Superman is the archetypal superhero, the one character who laid the foundation for the decades of characters and stories that were to follow. He is a character that fights for …
Random Matt Vol 1
There is often not even material for a full column but there are still some things worth commenting on, so every now and again I hope to submit a piece …
Atomic Roundtable: The highs and lows of 2018
So we are entering the tail end of 2018, a tumultuous year in many ways; from social change, political upheaval, international crises, deaths of respected public figures, some great comics …