I know that I have read V for Vendetta before, and yet I really didn’t remember it at all? Was it so long ago and was I just too young to really grasp it at that time? Who knows, but now I feel like it is a pretty striking time for a re-read, given everything happening in the world today (though to be fair this has been happening in so many places for so long). I guess the last number of years have just really […]
Some giants need slaying
I’ve been struggling to make my way through a novel and decided to take a sideways read. Influenced by an article on Pajiba I picked up I Kill Giants, the graphic novel by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura. I’m a fan of the medium and thought it was worth a read without knowing the plot beyond that described in the article. A simple way to describe this is that it’s about a teenage girl (Barbara Thorson) who seems isolated and ostracised from the world around […]
Didn’t like as much as Part One.
I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first, but I think that’s on me this time. The art is still the same beautiful quality, the writing is still true to the characters, the worldbuilding is still impeccable. It’s just, this volume happens to feature two things that I personally really dislike in stories. And on top of that there’s a cliffhanger! Number one thing that I don’t enjoy in stories almost 100% of the time: stories about gangs and organized crime. I just, […]
We Can Be Heroes
I provided a bare-bonesed introduction to the basic plot of this story in my review of volume one. Vision was created by Ultron to be a robo-destroyer with no agency. Vision was curious, and didn’t want to be a destroyer, so he rebelled from his creator and fought for good alongside the Avengers. In this book, he has created a wife and children. They live outside of Washington, D.C., and they try to live as others do – going to school, going to work, meeting […]
Who Knew Riddler Was an A-Lister?
My favorite comic book store is Austin Books and Comics. They always give me interesting recs, and they’re the reason that I’ve been soaking in all the Tom King stories that I can lately. (Sorry for that, by the way! I usually try to mix up my reviews.) This book was pitched to me as making The Riddler a cool villain, and someone you should be scared of. It worked. In this particular continuum, Bruce Wayne/Batman “like likes” Selina Kyle/Catwoman, but for their relationship to […]
“There’s not a choice…you just have to.”
There’s a quote early in this book that perfectly summarizes my favorite version of Batman. Lucius Fox to Bruce Wayne: I once tried to talk your father into coming into the business. Told him being a doctor drives you crazy. Whatever you do, people just get sick again. You make no progress. He looked at me for a bit, got real quiet, stern almost. It’s a look I’ve only ever seen once again. And it was in the face of a masked man. Finally, in […]
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