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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 2 months ago

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

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reviewed You Look Like Death by Gerard Way (Tales from the Umbrella Academy, #1)

Gerard Way, Nate Piekos, Shaun Simon, I.N.J. Culbard: You Look Like Death (Paperback, 2021, Dark Horse Books)

Scratches the UA comics itch

You Look Like Death was a good, but not great story.

It's a six-issue story following Klaus/Séance after he gets kicked out of home by Hargreeves. He goes on a drug bender, talks with dead people, and has somewhat of a redemption arc where he helps people.

It's nice. It was great to get a story fleshing out the comic book world that has somewhat been overshadowed by the TV series in recent years. But it's not as strong as the main stories published so far.

But, still worth reading if you've read the other three already 👍

reviewed Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (The Neuromancer Trilogy, #3)

William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Paperback, 2017, GOLLANCZ)

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy.

A good conclusion

Content warning Character revelation from previous book, and how the final chapter content relates to the first book that's not too specific.

reviewed Superman Action Comics - Vol. 2 by Dan Jurgens (Action Comics 2016, #963-966)

Dan Jurgens, Tom Grummett, Patrick Zircher, Stephen Segovia, Art Thibert: Superman Action Comics - Vol. 2 (GraphicNovel, 2017, DC Comics)

Look! Down there on the ground! It's...Clark Kent?! As Metropolis recovers from the devastating attack …

Too many parts and not enough resolution.

Admittedly, I've only read this one TPB, but it's story is not well contained at all.

One thing I really don't like in comic series is when there are so many publications all at once that you can't get a coherent storyline unless you read all of them. This is an example of that problem.

I know this is early in the "Rebirth" reboot, but it still means that I've read 128 pages for basically not much of anything...