ADVANCED REVIEW: Mother - A Post Apocalyptic Tale

By Zack Quaintance — There’s just something about post apocalyptic settings that lend themselves to tales of family. We’ve seen it often, in everything from Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Price-winning novel The Road to Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 cinematic meditation on childless society, Children of Men. When the world as we know it ends, our thoughts and feelings turn to the core of our humanity — family. The creators of the forthcoming one-shot comic Mother - A Post Apocalyptic Tale understand this well, putting the titular bond at the heart of their poignant and emotional new story.

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REVIEW: Ogres #1 picks up thematically right where the first volume left off

By Zack Quaintance — Ogres #1 hit this week, launching the second volume of writer Bob Salley and artist Shawn Daley’s ongoing fantasy comic with Source Point Press. The first volume spanned three issues, telling a largely complete and well-done story that was rich with themes relating to having no true winners in war, violence only begetting more violence, and the power of us vs. them pathologies. The second volume seems to pick up right where the first left off, at least thematically anyway. 

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