The Catalyst is a delightfully dark jaunt through multiple genres, put together by a who's-who of fantastic indie comic creators.

Writer: Nick Bryan Art: Lucas Peverill Publisher: Self-published WHAT IS IT? A suspenseful, one-shot sci-fi/horror thriller on the moon. Take the scary, inhospitable tone from Moon, the dark side of technology from Black Mirror and the struggle to survive from The Martian and you've got a cocktail pretty close to this story. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) The world needed more digital storage, and didn't have enough room to house a mainframe big enough to hold all that dat

Writer: Nick Bryan Art: Rosie Alexander Publisher: Self-published WHAT IS IT? A one-off comic that's a kind of coming-of-age tale about coping with sickness, death and loss, but also about friendship and family, and how you can't get through life without those things. It captures that melancholy teenage vibe very well, like The Way Way Back, but is more obsessed with the concept of death than being a misanthrope. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? (Minor Spoilers) Teens run through a tower, ki