Fatale. Book one: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Posted: March 23, 2014 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Books, Comic, Ed Brubaker, English, Fatale, Sean Phillips 3 Comments
Finally, a gripping horror story on the back of very good drawings. Collects volumes 1 to 5 of Fatale. I keep on reading.
Any Empire by Nate Powell
Posted: March 17, 2014 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Books, Comic, English, Nate Powell Leave a comment
Another great example of a graphic novel where the style and art beats the story 10 to 1. I would even say, these childhood stories are supposed to be like Essex County, but it's a no go to compare a great book with a one that lack such greatness.
Oh well.
The Reservoir by Tim Gibson
Posted: March 9, 2014 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Anthony Johnston, Books, Comic, Tim Gibson Leave a comment
Tim Gibson made a short one-shot prequel to yet unfinished Moth City. A fifteen minute read, drawn in stunning black and white, which reminds me of classic Frank Miller noir. I keep on waiting for last two bits of Moth City saga, it rocks.
Lost Cat by Jason
Posted: March 7, 2014 Filed under: Comic | Tags: Books, Comic, Jason Leave a comment
Jason's stuff is simple and strange. A Humphrey Bogart private eye mysterious lost love story suddenly turned into full blown war of the worlds. Hehe.
Now, what I really really like about Jason's stuff – you can read a book of his in 30 mins. Nice 😉
The 47 Ronin by Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima
Posted: February 8, 2014 Filed under: Comic | Tags: Akiko Shimojima, Comic, English, Japan, Ronin, Samurai, Sean Michael Williams Leave a comment
The book is so-and-so, chewing gum. I guess I wouldn't mind watching the movie – though, I guess, it would be chewing gum as well.
Moth City Seasons 1-3 by Tim Gibson
Posted: January 4, 2014 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Books, Comic, English, Tim Gibson 1 Comment
I couldn't wait till the final 2 issues of this unique and beautiful 8-issue graphic novel and went through Seasons 1-3 (issues 1-6) in a blast.
Tim Gibson managed to create a whole new approach to digital comic books, no less – technically, it's nothing new, but once put together, it's kinda revolutionary – and he made that on the backdrop of quite a thrilling carnage story that makes it difficult to put it down. Book noir + the living dead + totalitarian regime in early XX century China – I know, it reads like total stereotype nonsense crap – but miraculously, it's not. You just wait for 2 final issues and read though it all. I will, again. Plus, it's a great way to ease my mind from reading The Fata Morgana Books that doesn't go easy for me.
Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Posted: January 1, 2014 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Alan Moore, Books, Comic, English Leave a comment
Xmas sale on comiXology hooked me up with Alan Moore's iconic Swamp Thing saga that I've never read.
Proves one thing right, the thing one can be certain about Moore's comic book universe – you can't just read his stuff flipping through the pages and running down the storyline at the speed of light – oh no, he requires you to crack them, read every word, suffer through it in a sense. From Hell is the best example of a great but difficult to read masterpiece of his.
A funny observation for trash movie fans – for a person unfamiliar with the Swamp Thing character, I do have to admit that Troma's no less iconic Toxic Avenger looks kinda like him.
All in all, that's another Moore's superhero novel like Watchmen or V for Vendetta (actually, written well ahead of both) that doesn't have a chewing gum effect at all – vice versa, you dig your teeth in and you work it, like you would with a proper rib eye – and unless you have bloody gums or heartburn, you should like it.
Clumsy: A Novel by Jeffrey Brown
Posted: December 29, 2013 Filed under: Comic | Tags: Books, Comic, English, Jeffrey Brown Leave a comment
This book has a great mix of young adult romance and insecurity that make for a very good set of short stories, which I loved – but, by God, it is drawn so painfully ugly (on purpose, I’m sure) that my eyes bled. Ummm
The Walking Dead Vol. 115-118 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Posted: December 16, 2013 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Books, Comic, English, Robert Kirkman, Zombie Leave a comment
Decided to catch up on several months of unread issues of The Walking Dead – and quickly went through volumes 115 to 118. The thing is, if you read just one issue, it's boring – but if you read at least three at once, you get the pace.
Kirkman went into a new story arc called All Out War, a total of 12 issues (8 more to come), with people going after people, guns trotting et al.
The most interesting thing about the comic book now is to compare it to the AMC series – the storyline has never been the same, sure – but even character wise, actions and personalities differ a lot. On TV, the bad guys start the war, while Rick proposes to lay down everyone's guns and quietly live in peace – while in the original comic book world, Rick is the attacker, and his motto is – no killer must be left alive. Gruesome and much more real, eh.
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
Posted: December 15, 2013 Filed under: Comic, Fiction | Tags: Batman, Books, Comic, David Mazzucchelli, English, Frank Miller, Masked Vigilante Leave a comment
Took the time to go through Batman: Year One, an integral part of Miller’s Batman series. As a prequel to the first Dark Knight, it’s a short book indeed, serialized as four issues in 1987.
Miller’s writing is impeccable – as always, I guess – story-wise, Year One was a bit less complex and thought-provocative than the Dark Knight Returns and the Dark Knight Strikes Again, which were full of questions whether the glorious masked vigilante was a fascist of sorts, pure essence of a lynch mob dressed in a shiny black suit with a cape, acting under the cover of the night as the judge, the jury and the executioner all-in-one.
And no, Miller’s books have nothing to do with Chris Nolan’s blockbusters, that took the title but almost nothing else from them. And better so.
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