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Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake …
‘S fine. Nothing groundbreaking or unusual. Violent, though. That’s good stuff.
A history of the dark times
“So this is how liberty dies—with thunderous applause.” …
a valiant attempt to hammer unruly continuity into a single timeline, with a satisfying thematic framing.
Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. …
vibes, bro. immaculately fucked vibes.
Master of Japanese horror manga Junji Ito presents a series of hissterical tales chronicling his …
it's lightweight, sure. i enjoy his usage of his horror imagery in service of real life--the bit wears a bit thin by the end, but it's not long enough to grate.
but what gets me is his earnestness. the moments are small, but they show off how much he cares about these cats.
more of a curiosity in his oeuvre, but a neat little diversion.
it's lightweight, sure. i enjoy his usage of his horror imagery in service of real life--the bit wears a bit thin by the end, but it's not long enough to grate.
but what gets me is his earnestness. the moments are small, but they show off how much he cares about these cats.
more of a curiosity in his oeuvre, but a neat little diversion.
sweet, melancholy, earnest, affecting. charming is the wrong word to use--it never tries to be pointlessly upbeat, nor does it unnecessarily wallow in sadness. it is a story of love, of moving on, of acceptance (in so many different ways), of joy that you can feel in your bones, wrapped around a core of heartache and loss.
here's a quick tip for you, the potential reader: find Siege, find volume 5 of Bendis' first New Avengers Complete collection, and read this. some secret invasion is fine.
read through DA and NA at your own pace. once you reach the first Siege trade-dressed issue in those books, start reading Siege. at that point, it's a bit free form, but just sorta alternate through all three as you go, the context is easy enough to pick out. you get a full view of the story, a whole hell of a lot of action, and a truly satisfying reading experience.
but setting that aside, this is just a brilliant collection. osborn's attempt to repackage a bunch of killers to function as a team goes about as well as one can expect. it's a darkly humorous book, a strangely perfect encapsulation on how far some will go to cover up the …
here's a quick tip for you, the potential reader: find Siege, find volume 5 of Bendis' first New Avengers Complete collection, and read this. some secret invasion is fine.
read through DA and NA at your own pace. once you reach the first Siege trade-dressed issue in those books, start reading Siege. at that point, it's a bit free form, but just sorta alternate through all three as you go, the context is easy enough to pick out. you get a full view of the story, a whole hell of a lot of action, and a truly satisfying reading experience.
but setting that aside, this is just a brilliant collection. osborn's attempt to repackage a bunch of killers to function as a team goes about as well as one can expect. it's a darkly humorous book, a strangely perfect encapsulation on how far some will go to cover up the excesses of state violence. i loved it, start to finish.
as an event books go, it's slighter and much more focused on spectacle, with the actual story shifted to the Avengers tie-in books. that said, what's here is fun and outrageously violent in places. it works well as a coda to Dark Reign.
as an event books go, it's slighter and much more focused on spectacle, with the actual story shifted to the Avengers tie-in books. that said, what's here is fun and outrageously violent in places. it works well as a coda to Dark Reign.
a lot of wheel spinning, some setup for Dark Avengers, and inconsistent art teams.
it's a good book, a lot of winding in parallel to events rather than being its own narrative. but it's got good art and Bendis is a pretty good plotter.
it's a good book, a lot of winding in parallel to events rather than being its own narrative. but it's got good art and Bendis is a pretty good plotter.
