My only Black Friday splurge because how can I turn this down for ten bucks
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My wheelhouse is in fiction, especially comics. I enjoy genre fiction, and tend to lean towards horror, weird and science fiction. I enjoy reading about food, socialism, music, religions, and computing.
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dvo wants to read Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales
In this exceptional noir tour de force from writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo …
dvo wants to read Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
dvo finished reading Berserk, Vol. 24 by Kentaro Miura
dvo finished reading Spawn: Batman by Todd McFarlane
This situates itself in the Year One timeline, and is mostly Batman calling Spawn names like "punk", "twit" and "boy" (yikes) while Spawn beats him up. In the beginning Miller is trying to be brooding and poetic and you just have to read it in the Christian Bale voice. It's mandatory. After that people are talking just to talk. There is no narrative momentum to this thing whatsoever.
The plot, such that it is, is paper thin. Russians are putting the decapitated, still living heads of the unhoused into robots for unexplained seasons. Some woman Spawn recognized from the battlefield of his life as Al did it. They kill her. The end.
McFarlane's art is what it is. Anatomy is not a high priority. There are a few good pages in there with more collage style composition but mostly it's just Spawn and Batman punching each other over and over …
This situates itself in the Year One timeline, and is mostly Batman calling Spawn names like "punk", "twit" and "boy" (yikes) while Spawn beats him up. In the beginning Miller is trying to be brooding and poetic and you just have to read it in the Christian Bale voice. It's mandatory. After that people are talking just to talk. There is no narrative momentum to this thing whatsoever.
The plot, such that it is, is paper thin. Russians are putting the decapitated, still living heads of the unhoused into robots for unexplained seasons. Some woman Spawn recognized from the battlefield of his life as Al did it. They kill her. The end.
McFarlane's art is what it is. Anatomy is not a high priority. There are a few good pages in there with more collage style composition but mostly it's just Spawn and Batman punching each other over and over and over again.
It's trash. I loved it. Shine on, you crazy diamonds.
dvo wants to read Spawn: Batman by Todd McFarlane
I'm so ready for this steaming pile
dvo started reading Usagi Yojimbo, Book 4 by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo, Book 4 by Stan Sakai
he novel-length "The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy" is jam-packed with lethal sword battles alternating with humor, horror, suspense and slapstick. This …
dvo started reading Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3 by Hayao Miyazaki
dvo started reading Little Russia by Francis Desharnais
"Guyenne is a small village north-east of Amos. Unlike other conmmunities in Abitibi, Guyenne is …
This is everything I love about Canadian comics. If you enjoy Michel Rabagliati or Michel Helman, you'd be right at home here.
dvo wants to read The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer …
dvo finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of …
Borrowed this from a friend. Reality could really use an editor. The bulk of this book is Cliff getting paged and tracing calls and phoning the same people over and over. That said, Cliff himself comes off as really endearing and presents an awesome piece of computer history.
dvo started reading Usagi Yojimbo Origins, Vol. 2 by Stan Sakai
Presenting the earliest adventures of rabbit ronin Miyamoto Usagi in all-new full-color editions for the …
I didn't realize this would be coloured and I'm sorry to say it detracts a lot from Sakai's art. Colours are chosen haphazardly with no effort to establish tone or enhance setting. What time of day is it? The colorist doesn't know. What's the weather? The colorist doesn't know. We just get some cheap gradients to give everyone cheek bones and call it a day.
The stories themselves are strong as ever, but I'll need to be more careful in tracking down the black and white versions.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition by Samuel R. Delany
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City
In the …
dvo finished reading Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 by Hayao Miyazaki
Nausicaä, a gentle but strong-willed young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu …
This is where the story really starts to diverge from the movie, which makes it a bit more engaging than the first volume. Page layouts are still wonky, there's still too much hatching, and Miyazaki's weird purity thing is still front and centre. All in all though, it's much more enjoyable.