Author name: Stephen Geigen-Miller

Stephen Geigen-Miller writes comics, prose and free-associative paragraphs that seemed to make some sort of sense at the time. His geekdoms are many and long-standing, and include science fiction, fantasy, comics, tabletop role-playing games, and endearingly bad kaiju movies. Stephen co-created and co-wrote the scifi comic series Xeno’s Arrow with writer/artist Greg Beettam. He co-created and wrote the trope-tacular urban fantasy webcomic Cold Iron Badge with artist Patrick Heinicke. Stephen lives in Toronto, works at the University of Toronto, and has two children. He writes in the bits and pieces of time in between everything else. You can learn more about him via his blog, or follow him on Twitter.

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Comics Review: The 2026 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Graphic Story

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Hugo season is well underway—voting closes on August 8th—and as usual, I’m fascinated by the range of works that landed on the ballot for Best Graphic Story this year. It’s a diverse list—superheroes, cats, children, wizards, the living and the dead and those not entirely on either side of that question. A new take on a character who’s been published for decades, an installment of a webcomic that’s been running for twenty years, variations on a theme of deconstruction, an adaptation of a classic novel, and a brand-new tale about something as old as humanity—grief.

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Comics Review: Free Planet, Volume 1

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If it wasn’t clear by now, in addition to being very good comics, this is very good science fiction. There are many ways to approach science fiction in the comics form, but this might be the most genuinely speculative, the most deeply considered and textured, the most well-thought-out future history of any comic I’ve read since my old friend Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder – and Finder was one of my favorite comics of all time. There are no SFFnal elements that feel extraneous, tacked-on, or like they’re there just for Rule of Cool.

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Comics Review: The Witch’s Egg, by Donya Todd

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The keen sense of visual design contrasts the childlike aspects of the character art. That’s not due to a lack of skill; this is clearly deliberate. There really is a striking degree of intentionality, here. The level of detail and the superabundance of decoration in the art and the page layouts makes that very clear.

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