Reviews and Comments

This is a great murder mystery novel. The blurb basically says it all: a retired mathematician defined all the essential parameters of murder mystery novels, described the possible permutations, and then released a collection of seven short stories that demonstrated all the permutations. The story goes through the stories, and describes the permutations along the way.

The book is easy to read, as it's basically a collection of short stories, and it's a great read.

What I don't like about the blurb is that it implies that there's a greater mystery to solve. I don't like this implication, because it's not possible for the reader to solve this greater mystery, because they aren't given all the facts until the revelation at the conclusion. The conclusion is still excellent; it's a lovely part of the story and a good ending, but it's not a mystery you can solve.

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 👍

Without exaggeration, probably the best book I read this year. Absolutely fantastic.

Kind of Powers-esque, but obviously a lot earlier... Police force super. Interesting.

Over thirty years late to the game, but whatever, it's cool.

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...

Oohh.. That was a good one!