The White Pages #14: Nowhere Men
It may seem a bit early in the game to be recommending Nowhere Men – it’s only had four issues so far, with number five coming out later this month (probably, possibly). But… Read More
It may seem a bit early in the game to be recommending Nowhere Men – it’s only had four issues so far, with number five coming out later this month (probably, possibly). But… Read More
I just finished this book with a sense of “what just happened here?” Did these things really happen, or were they just hallucinations? Because they very well could have been with an opium… Read More
Smaller than a planet, but big for an asteroid, a planetoid stands a pretty good chance of being a barren wasteland — and you can bet your bottom space-dollar that the one that… Read More
Skippy Dies. It’s both the name and the main event of Paul Murray’s novel. But don’t worry. That’s not a give-away. It happens right there in the first chapter. It’s the why and… Read More
The best word I have to describe Paul Grist’s Mudman is – wait for it – gentle. Yup, it’s a gentle superhero comic, and that doesn’t stop it from being badass in its… Read More
Most people know Andrew Whiteman for his work as guitarist in Toronto’s “let’s-not-call-them-a-supergroup” Broken Social Scene, but he was a fixture on the Toronto scene for years before that. He was a member… Read More
Striving for mediocrity and settling for less is how the characters in The Imperfectionists operate. A novel by Tom Rachman, it’s the story of an English language newspaper in Rome and the people… Read More
Written by Nick Spencer and drawn by Joe Eisma, Morning Glories is a lot like last month’s featured comic, Mind the Gap, in that it’s a suspenseful mystery story where half the fun… Read More
Do you believe in ghosts? What about love? No? Well, just humour me for a minute here. The White Devil by Justin Evans is about both those things. Andrew Taylor, the protagonist, is… Read More