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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

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Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.

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Powers Volume 1 (GraphicNovel, 2022, Dark Horse Comics) 4 stars

In a world where superheroes soar through the sky, follow homicide detectives Christian Walker and …

Fantastic superhero crime noir!

4 stars

I bought a collection of comics on a whim, based on the writer alone (Brian Michael Bendis), and the Powers series was one of the inclusions. I had no knowledge of it prior, having mainly known Bendis from his Ultimate Spider-Man/Miles Morales creation. But let me tell you it did not disappoint!

Without going into too much of it: people have (super) powers in this universe, but the story follows two non-powered detectives while they work on powers-related cases, the first being a murder of quite an iconic hero.

And the angular noir style art by Michael Avon Oeming is great! It really bring the universe to life.

reviewed The Iliad by Homer

The Iliad (EBook, Standard Ebooks) 2 stars

The Iliad is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical …

A summary would do it as much justice.

2 stars

It was... fine? I guess. I don't know, it was just kind of average. It was basically a lot of the same thing for pages and pages on end. And none of it overly interesting.