ARTS

Comic Corner: Round two for Briggs

In the second attempt at adapting a series by popular urban fantasy novelist Patricia Briggs, we are given Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf. Despite being a huge fan of Briggs’ novels, I regret to say that this book is no more successful as a graphic novel than its predecessor, Mercy Thompson: Homecoming.

ARTS

The End is Nigh

The latest production from the Douglas College theatre department follows the residents of a tiny Saskatchewan town called Unity during the waning months of 1918, as World War I is coming to an end and an influenza pandemic with a mortality rate close to 20 per cent is sweeping across the globe.