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reviewed 2001 nights by Yukinobu Hoshino (Cadence Books graphic novel)

Yukinobu Hoshino: 2001 nights (1996, Cadence Books)

Review of '2001 nights' on Goodreads

As the name subtly suggests, this is a love letter to the Kubric-Clarke über masterpiece. Short space stories in austere, awe-inspiring drawings. Old school hard SciFi in space, with hints of mind- and universe-bending revelations. The stories feel kind of romantic but also forward looking at the same time.

If you've any interest in Space exploration or just SciFi you owe it to yourself to read them.

Fabio Moon: Daytripper (2011, Vertigo)

Review of 'Daytripper' on Goodreads

It's Life seen as a collage of smaller lives. The stages of Life, beginnings and endings, narrated by dreams, punctuated by deaths. Deaths due to love, friendship, family, work, births and of course deaths. Each death leaves something behind and opens room for the next one. Each event forever ends a life to let a new one begin.

It's a bold, confident ride full of colors, lively, drab and mysterious, always carrying the protagonist, the symbols and people around him from one life to the next.

William Shakespeare: Hamlet (2017, The Arden Shakespeare)

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder …

Review of 'Hamlet' on Goodreads

Interesting ideas on the physical nature of Logic, I felt it constrained itself in the safer what-ifs. The story remained in the safer territory of safeguarding Logic instead of boldly turning it upside down to see what would happen. When the correctness, identity and physicality of actual Logic is at stake, it'd be more interesting to see what its breach would entail.