Review

  • Enter the Raccoon

    I would never have known about the existence of Enter the Raccoon if it wasn’t for Beatriz Hausner herself, who came in as a plenary…

  • Anybody Can Be a Hero

    “Heroes never die!” – Mercy Released in May 2016 by Blizzard Entertainment, Overwatch is a team-based first-person shooter (FPS) that has quickly taken centre-stage in…

  • Swamp Things and Singing True: a Review of the comic Bayou

    If you’re going to build a world with words, look at Jeremy Love’s comic book series Bayou for inspiration—you can’t go wrong. What began as…

  • Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting

    It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…

  • Spec in Song Spotlight: Kyle Morton

    Spec in Song explores the use of the speculative in music, whether it be fantasy, sci-fi, horror, or beyond. The content of Kyle Morton’s songs…

  • Bounty Hunters and Space Cowboys: Comparing Killjoys and Firefly

    Killjoys and Firefly entered my repository of favourite TV shows in much the same manner. In both cases, I saw a few posters and heard…

  • After Alice: Beyond the Rabbit Hole

    How many characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland can you name off the top of your head? It’s alright if you can’t name them…

  • Hannibal: What do you see?

    Sight is the key to appreciating the design behind Bryan Fuller’s three seasons of Hannibal. Television is first and foremost a visual medium, and no…

  • The Flash Season One: “Run, Barry, Run!”

    The Flash Season One: “Run, Barry, Run!”

    “Life is locomotion… If you’re not moving, you’re not living.” So begins the famous motto of the comic book hero the Flash, and when adopting…

  • All Hail the Gods of Cinema: A Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron

    I want to be a superhero—really badly. When someone asks me, “if you were a superhero…”, I respond with a full run-through of my back-story,…