Category: Comics

08
Mar
2010

This is a Bad Time

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan: But why do we choose to be attached to the…

08
Mar
2010

The Invisible Colour of Attachment

From ‘The Color of Earth’ by Kim Dong Hwa, a young monk poignantly thinks to himself when he realises he…

01
Mar
2010

A Soundless Fountain

From one of the last page of David Small’s autobiographical graphic novel ‘Stitches: A Memoir’: ‘My mother died in 1970,…

01
Mar
2010

Monsters & Heroes Defeated Alike

In the ‘retelling’ of ‘Beowulf’ by Gareth Hinds, King Hrothgar tells Beowulf the following after they slays Grendal and the…

01
Mar
2010

Do I Make Any Difference?

From ‘Essex County’ by Jeff Lemire, Annie the nurse says, ‘I lost a patient today… Humph!… I know what you’d…

01
Mar
2010

How to Be Better Alone

From ‘Essex County’ by Jeff Lemire, ‘You know, there are only two ways to be completely alone in this world…

28
Feb
2010

Letdown Day?

In ‘The Waiting Place’ by Sean Kelley McKeever, Scott says, ‘Do you know what new year’s day is? It’s just…

27
Feb
2010

Healthy Bat Dread

In ‘Batman: Gotham After Midnight’ by Steve Niles and Kelley Jones, Batman says this to Comissioner Gordon, ‘This is the…

27
Feb
2010

Life, Door & Veil

From ‘Prince of Persia’ by A. B. Sina et al: Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence;…

03
Feb
2010

Our Scramble Suits

In ‘A Scanner Darkly’, undercover cops wear a ‘scramble suit’ which covers them from head to toe. Now, this suit…

01
Feb
2010

A Scanner Clearly

A passage from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction (graphic) novel and movie ‘A Scanner Darkly’, which I arranged into the following…

22
Jan
2010

Into the Abyss?

In ‘The Question: The Five Books of Blood’ by Greg Rucka, Renee Montoya, who takes on the persona of the…

14
Jan
2010

India Adventures (5): Compassion Will Prevail

People often asked me what i think about the plight of Tibet, I’m sympathetic but have not much to comment….

11
Jan
2010

Birds of Different Feathers

The story by Maaike Hartjes in ‘Go Home: 12 Moving Stories’ tells of a baby bird born a little different….

11
Jan
2010

Take a Walk with the Walking Man

‘The Walking Man’ by Jiro Taniguchi is an everyman, except that he takes many walks and pays more attention to…

11
Jan
2010

Who am I?

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…

07
Dec
2009

Truth, Goodnesss & Beauty

In the story ‘Kiss of Death’ by Richard Starkings in ‘Popgun Volume 1’, the conclusion reads –  ‘… one should…

02
Dec
2009

How Naming the Demons Work

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her…

24
Nov
2009

Wonderland Dirt!

From ‘Wonderland’, which is a spin-off story based on ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew are…

23
Nov
2009

All that Glitters

In the whimsical tale of  ‘The Eternal Smile’ by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, a mercenary frog craves…