My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
The fourth film spin-off from the daffy Japanese X-Men knock-off beams its dream-like action into a flying fortress where victims are turned into superfolk
‘I need positive things to come of this’: graphic novelist rocked by brother’s suicide donates profits to charity
Award-winning Zoe Thorogood hopes the money raised can help halt rising numbers of young men taking own lives
Book of the day
The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London
With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates
September 2024
Hellboy: The Crooked Man review – sputtering mess even a metric ton of makeup can’t conceal
A boring nemesis in a top hat bops around cackling while a wan Hellboy is enlisted to save a local man’s sweetheart in this inexplicable successor
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram review – cult anime goes on wild treasure hunt
The latest outing for the high school sleuth sees him join forces with his arch enemy, a master thief. Despite some flashes of brilliance, the script soon becomes convoluted
Graphic novel of the month
Final Cut by Charles Burns review – a book to be read and reread
A horror movie shoot grows complicated for a group of young friends in a rich story of anxiety and betrayal steeped in dread
August 2024
Autumn fiction special 2024
Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel
On my radar
On my radar: Jon Hopkins’s cultural highlights
Graphic novel of the month
Elena: A Hand Made Life by Miriam Gold review – a beautifully crafted memoir of a beloved grandmother
British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films gifted to Oscars archive
July 2024
‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom
Robert Downey Jr returns to Marvel as Doctor Doom
Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt
Guy Lodge
Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi review – football anime gets the battle royale treatment
June 2024
‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond
Graphic novel of the month
George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education
May 2024
The Crow review – Brandon Lee’s heavy metal horror is a potent goth fantasy
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris review – fantastic beasts
Haikyuu!!: The Dumpster Battle review – huge anime hit goes deep into high school volleyball
Emil Ferris: ‘We can’t enter a future without our humanity’
