STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy with Mat Coward: February 1, 2022
New titles from Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard, JT Nicholas, WM Cleese and Ally Wilkes
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
BRINK volume 4 by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, (Rebellion, £12.99), continues one of the most interesting and thoroughly imagined science fiction comics of recent years.
Originally a strip in the weekly 2000 AD, it takes place in a near future where environmental degradation has forced the human race to evacuate to giant space stations. They’ve taken corporate rule along with them, so the rich are still rich and the rest live in cramped near-poverty, plagued by crime, narcotics and apocalyptic religious cults.
Through a plot that blends horror, cop story and mystery, Abnett’s script and Culbard’s art work together with a rare harmony to create an exciting and convincing portrait of a future.
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