Showing posts with label Graphic Novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graphic Novel. Show all posts

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Kill Chain by Andy Diggle

James Bond: Kill ChainJames Bond: Kill Chain by Andy Diggle

My rating: 3.68 of 5 stars


*I received this book from Dynamite Entertainment and Netgalley for an honest review*

I have something of a kind of love/hate relationship going on with the Bond franchise. I got hooked on watching John Wayne films shown late at night or during the day by my grandfather. I got hooked on watching Bond films by way of marathons via my father. Though it was my mother who had collected the books as they were published – the original books – that I found in the basement and read (the Ian Fleming ones, I had to get the others myself). This was back when I was like ten (13? I forget now). Watched and loved the films. Read and mostly enjoyed the books. This was back when Timothy Dalton was Bond, at least on the big screen, my first Bond experience was with the original Connery, though – see: movie marathons), and my first Bond film in the theater was License to Kill.

I just loved watching Bond films. Reading the continuation novels. Then there was a six year gap (something like that) do to legal issues (what I was told at the time, I’ve never looked it up to see if accurate). And I kind of fell away from Bond while he was off the big screen. Oh, sure, I continued reading Benson Bond books, but . . . they lacked something. So I drifted away.

When I looked again, I was smacked in the face, so to speak, by certain aspects of Bond that were despicable (like how Connery’s Bond doesn’t like being told ‘no’ when it comes to sex; and, weirdly, just hates when the woman is all over him (see: Goldfinger for both – with lesbian Pussy Galore being forced by Bond, and apparently liking it so well that she turned on her boss; and … okay, I can’t find which woman I mean here for the other, was she not in Goldfinger? I recall a hotel room, the woman comes on to Bond, he pushes her away, because ?, film continued). So I had that to deal with. And I still watched the films, read the books, and stuff. But it was always there in the back of my mind – the male-thing (saw Lasenby’s film again the other day – weird dynamic there, Bond in that film didn’t force himself onto women, and actually seemed happier when the woman wanted him – the women at the institute he was undercover at; sure there was the ‘bribed to date gangster’s daughter’ part, but he didn’t force himself onto her).

All that just to note that I’ve mostly steered clear of the comic series. But hey, might as well try, eh?

James Bond in ‘Kill Chain’. As the book description notes: the spy world is in massive conflict, there’s a plot against NATO, MI6 and the CIA are in conflict, and the Russian SMERSH (seen a few times in the films, a lot more often in the books) is plotting against . . . well, the West. SMERSH being the Soviet Union spy service in WWII in real life, which was either disbanded or absorbed by the KGB after the war (I forget which), though found extended life in Fleming’s books and the Bond films. The book opens in Russia. Where some unknown man is talking to another unknown man – while that second man literally uses his fists on rocks (okay, not really, he slams two rocks together in his fists).

After unknown man 2 makes an arrow head, the scene shifts to two people fighting – a man and a woman. Presumably the man is James Bond, though, eh, I mostly say that because: 1) of the three men seen so far, he’s the closest to Bond’s looks; 2) he almost immediately gets sexual with the woman. You know, like Bond does. It’s his thing. Afterwards, and I’m only continuing this so I can mention – the woman takes a shower while wearing her clothing? I think? While she does that Bond robs the place. Because, hey, he’s a spy. All of this, by the way, the two men in Russia, and Bond & blonde woman in some undisclosed location – are the ‘precredits’ action. The after title credits action shifts ‘stuff’ to Rottendam. Which I mention because the book description notes that ‘operation in Rottendam goes catastrophically wrong’ so I guess I get to see that now. (Whereupon we learn that Bond and the blonde woman, later called ‘Rika’, were actually already in Rottendam).

Oh bloody hell – so action finally occurs and . .. Bond drives his car through a crowd? Seriously? After everything we’ve had happen lately with so many terrorists driving cars through crowds, the first actual action in this comic shows Bond driving a car through a crowd? Pfft. (counter: he’s trying to get away from a gunman in a boat; counter-counter – so? Just don’t show him driving the car through a crowd, but just along the road, racing away from the boat, while the boat fires at him, showing Bond drive through a crowd just seemed needless; wait, he was chasing the guy in the boat, not racing away . . crap, trying to figure out action in graphic comic form isn’t always easy, hehe).

Right, so, as said, conflict in the spy world – and that’s what the reader reads.

Oh, wait, what the heck is this book doing with SMERSH in it? If it’s set in modern times? At least that’s what I assume when Bond is given a cell phone. Gah – it’s not always easy to tell, some ‘continuation’ novels are set back in Fleming’s time period, some are set in ‘modern’ time periods (most recent ‘continuation’ book I read was set in Flemings time – 1969 – William Boyd’s Solo). Having SMERSH involved made me think this had to be set before the Soviet Union fell, but cell phone. You know what would have helped? Dates. What graphic novel forgets to include dates when giving location data? Pfft.

I’ll devote a second paragraph to this issue: not knowing the date is seriously annoying when trying to read a book. The world changes to bloody fast to be ‘generic 20th to 21st century Earth’. Mmphs. Though the evidence, including Leiter missing an arm, lost in that first Bond film I saw at a movie theatre, plus the cell phone, makes me think this really is 21st century ‘current present time’. Also Leiter mentions that the current administration hates things like NATO and the world. And England’s mentioned to be getting ‘out of Europe’. And Stuff. So, yes, modern times. Mention of SMERSH in book description, plus lack of dates really messed me up here.

Right so – one specific problem mentioned: the lack of dates and the mention of SMERSH without mention of the current date from beginning of book (you know, have ‘present day’ or ‘2018’ listed next to ‘Russia’ as every other graphic novel would do it), caused me issues. SMERSH being mentioned can be and was explained in the book. And I did eventually pick up that this was ‘present day’. The fact that I had to spend so much time thinking about it, though, is a major issue. Heh, I didn’t mean to have a third paragraph on dates. I meant this to be my: beyond that one specific problem, already mentioned, the book was interesting and good, paragraph.

Good strong story. The ‘forcing himself onto women’ didn’t come up, though he did avoid the advances of one woman who was quite clearly desirous of spending ‘quality time’ with Bond. Course it wasn’t the right time – but with Bond, when is it ever the right time?

Rating: 3.68

March 11 2018




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Monday, March 5, 2018

Casa Nostra by Chris Sarracini and Nick Kilislian

Casa NostraCasa Nostra by Chris Sarracini

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


*I received this book from Udon Entertainment and Netgalley for an honest review*

This is an annoying book from beginning to end. From the super slow snail pace, to the many times flashbacks interrupted the story; to the many times some random scene would suddenly occur and there’d be no explanation or the sudden change in plot line until much later. Biggest problem, though? The art was such that I had trouble telling the characters apart. This ‘matched perfectly’ with the text that liked being vague about who was who and what was going on. Like how the book opens with a prologue, some unnamed ungendered narrator talking about papa the criminal. Long after the fact we learn that the narrator is 26, a woman named Claire, and half-Italian, half-Japanese.

Story: A graphic novel set in 1933, mostly in Indiana, with occasional trips elsewhere, like into Chicago.
As noted, the story opened with someone telling about the first time they heard their father's name. Not that the reader knew the narrators name until much later. Nor did the reader actually learn the father’s name (unless it was in some section I couldn’t read). Narrator, Claire, had something of a tough upbringing, tough childhood I mean. What with the criminal father, and having the police routinely stop by to beat up her mother to try to get her to tell where father was. Not that she ever did talk

After that beginning bit, we get to 'I'm 26 now and still wonder if he is still robbing banks' (not an exact quote - it's hard to get the book to work on my system, so I can't really get back to get exact quote). So the 'meat' of the story starts when the narrator is 26. We still didn't know gender by the time the book moved to 'present time' (1933). Though the book description had me assuming that we were learning about the daughter of this bank robber. Assumption was correct. Narrator is 'Claire' and female.

Claire, with four other women, runs a 'safe house' where criminals hide from the law. They’ve been doing it a while, and set things up with the Chicago Syndicate. So the criminals know not to break the rules (don’t touch the women; turn over firearms; etc.) or the Syndicate would get them (not that all criminals obeyed – I mean, we are talking about criminals here). Things were going well enough with Claire and the safe house until the ‘golden boy’, Capone’s favorite guy Rizzo, started to go insane and kill women. And the Syndicate wanted to stay at the safe house. Naturally Claire wanted no part of it and naturally she couldn’t’ say no. And naturally things didn’t go well. What with Rizzo having a history of going around being a serial killer and killing women.

There's a lot of backstory in this book, by the way. Even after we got to present day, we still had bits of the past being spilled on the reader. Not my favorite thing to have happen.
One of the problems with the book is that the art makes it hard to tell who is who. Like, somewhere along the way one criminal kills another - I could tell the two apart because one was fat. A cleaner came and cleaned. Then . . . some story about a man killing a woman (this would be Rizzo and some random woman, though the reader doesn’t know this at the time, learns after the fact). Just . . there. Is that the cleaner? Claire the narrator? Didn't know immediately because all the women look the same (for the most part, okay, not really, but it isn't easy to tell them apart), and the men aren't that distinctive either. More impressions of men and women than exact representations. So, I couldn’t always tell what was happening because I couldn’t always tell which characters were doing stuff (seriously, I’m not just saying that – the woman in the snuff piece? Looked like Claire – at least to my poor eyes; or at least close enough to possibly be sister or mother). I couldn’t tell what was going on despite this being a graphic novel - and I could literally see them doing stuff. But . . . which vaguely Italian looking guy is this? The one I already meet? Someone else? Which vaguely mixed race woman is this? Claire? One of the other women who work in the safe house? Some completely different woman? As could be seen from my description of the beginning - the text itself doesn't help matters. Since I didn't even know the narrator's name or gender for a good portion of the time until we finally got to 'the present' (of 1933). Sooo hard to tell what's going on.

This happens several times. 'This' being random scenes suddenly interrupting the flow of the story. Giving information about a new character. Quite annoying and quite breaking the flow of the super slow, very very slow story. This thing was on snail time.

Tough story to tell what was going on – more because I literally couldn’t tell the characters apart. There are large pieces of the story I am unclear on because of that factoid, though I know/picked up the major pieces.

An okay story, I suppose. Just . . . difficult to read.

Rating: 2.6

March 5 2018




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Monday, December 4, 2017

Sunstone, Vol. 4 by Stjepan Šejić

Sunstone, Vol. 4Sunstone, Vol. 4 by Stjepan Šejić

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


It's been more than 2 years since I last looked in on Sunstone. Since I read the previous volume. Reading my review for that volume, the third in the series, I remind myself that this volume here, the fourth, isn't the first volume I read for the first time in graphic novel form. But before I go down confusing lane, I'll just be blunter than norm: I read the first two volumes of this series as thy were created and posted on Devientart. Had access to more, but didn't read volume three until it popped up as a graphic novel. That one, volume 3, and volume 4 (this volume), were 'new reads' for me. Though I'd only read this one this morning - for the first time.

There's a personal reason why I stopped reading the series, and no it isn't the part where I originally thought the author was female only to be shocked to find that the author was a man (though that did happen - the having thought woman, finding out man); no it's the personal connection with my own life. Ironic, considering what happens in this volume and in volume 5 - the story that ends this volume and is picked up in volume 5 (which I'm reading even as I write this review here for volume 4. That personal connection is the part wherein, out of everything I've ever read, all those romances, and non-romances, the characters I most identified were the ones in this series here - for reasons. Specifically, I'll have to note otherwise this paragraph doesn't serve it's purpose, the two main people in the story-line - Ally and Lisa. They corresponded in weird ways to myself and someone else in my life. Who poofed on me. Which is the whole point of this paragraph - I'd seen this series with strings connecting it to my own life, but the connection was broken by that person 'poofing' on me, so . . . it was hard to get back to read more parts of this specific story here.

I rather assumed, based on the above and other stuff, that I'd probably end up rating this something nearish 4 (if that) stars. Because, hey, part of my enjoyment of the series was the part where it seemed oddly connected to my own life . . . and that was gone now, so..... But no, the humor wore down my walls, the plot and stuff broke the wall around my . . . um . . . something, emotions? And I rather enjoyed the story.

Bah, I'm not really saying anything about the book. Stuff happened, miscommunications occurred, flashbacks upon flashbacks occurred (the whole series is Lisa telling the reader the story from some point in the future - and occasionally things will/would appear out of chronological order, because the present for narrator Lisa isn't the present for story Lisa; plus there were many occasions when stuff was told that didn't actually happen, or, I should say, happened in stories, but the reader only learned that after the fact. I've lost this paragraph and this review.

Rating: 4.80

December 4 2017



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Monday, August 14, 2017

Harley Quinn: Joker Loves Harley by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner

Harley Quinn, Volume 2: Joker Loves HarleyHarley Quinn, Volume 2: Joker Loves Harley by Jimmy Palmiotti

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Wow this was bad. Horrible. Garbage.

Prior volume in this series had three stories. Two of which seemed relatively competent, third was a little off but okay-ish. This volume? Stretching things, you could . . . say there are about three story lines. Maybe. Maybe more? Is kind of a mess.

There's:
1) talked about for a long time before now, Ivy and Harley finally go off on their vacation and . . . it's over like immediately after they arrive. Um . . yay? lame.
2) Harley and Red Tool attack a squid under Harley's building. lame.
3) Harley goes roller derby-fighting, and, like normal, someone dies when she does that.
4) A joker like person, possibly the joker, pops up. Red Tool beats him and stuff. Harley beats on him. etc. etc. kinda lame story.
5) Christmas story - Harley is really into Santa. Goes to mall. Santa missing. Harley beats up an elf. Then tries to save Santa. etc. etc. Kinda lame story.

This specific volume actually puts that other guy first, not Connor, but Palmoitti or however you spell his name. Maybe that's why this volume seemed like it was just a big long excuse to have lots and lots of barely covered women - the T&A Harley Quinn show . . . or something.

Rating: lame. Wait, sorry. 1.5

August 14 2017



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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Harley Quinn: Die Laughing by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti

Harley Quinn, Volume 1: Die LaughingHarley Quinn, Volume 1: Die Laughing by Amanda Conner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This collection contains three story arcs, and, as probably should be expected for a book that involves, as the main character, Harley Quinn - there is a huge dose of wacky throughout.

First story arc - an alien kid lands on earth. Figures he would blend in as a cow (they are shape-shifting kind of aliens), gets killed and made into hot-dogs. The tainted hot-dogs end up at Coney Island and are eaten. The eaters turn into zombies.

Second Story arc - Harley and one of her gang head to India to 'get revenge' on a evil scamming call center that scams people with things like calling them and saying the IRS is about to sue them and stuff.

Third story arc - Harley goes under cover as a punk rocker and forms a punk band. Special appearance by: Penguin (and special flashback that includes the Joker).

Except for that India story, a competent set of stories. Enjoyable.

Rating: 3.73

August 13 2017





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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Peepland by Christa Faust

Peepland (Peepland, #1-5)Peepland by Christa Faust

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is a quick graphic novel about crime ridden New York city in the 1980s. Starring a peepshow stripper named Roxy.

The story: there's this guy who talks women into taking their clothes off and he films them. He does this in public. During one of his 'events' he films something in the background - the murder of a young woman. He gets spotted and he runs. Hides the tape in Roxy's peepshow place, and continues running. Then dies.

The bad guys then search throughout the graphic novel for the tape. While Roxy and some friends attempt to figure out what to do with the tape, and who the murderer might be.

Meanwhile, another of the peepshow stripper's has a son. That son gets picked up by the police and framed for the murder of the young woman. It's important to note that the young murdered woman is white (as is the murderer) while the young man framed by the corrupt police is black.

A 'baby butch' named AJ attempts to help Aiesha and her son Zee by doing things like getting money (through robbery) and the like. AJ and Aiesha are a couple - hence that 'background LGBT' shelf.

Oh, and, while Roxy is running around with an ex-boyfriend trying to 'solve the mystery' and stuff, she runs into an ex-girlfriend. So she's . . . I guess bisexual? There's not enough there to tell. I mean, it is shown that she 'had relations' with the other woman, but the boyfriend was in the room watching. But I think she also had 'relations' with that same woman in 'present time' so . . . bisexual? That other woman clearly things that she's hiding the fact she's a 'dyke' though.

Right. So. Interesting story. Not . . . bad. Somewhat horrifying to watch unfold all that abuse, brutality, murder, death, police corruption, and rape. *shudders*

The covers:


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Rating: 3.44

August 5 2017



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Friday, June 23, 2017

Harley Quinn Vol. 5: The Joker's Last Laugh by Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti

Harley Quinn, Vol. 5: The Joker's Last LaughHarley Quinn, Vol. 5: The Joker's Last Laugh by Amanda Conner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Stuff happens. Harley Quinn deals with someone she killed before but who has come back to life; her boyfriend is in jail being beaten up; she has some conflict with the mayor of New York; her boyfriend gets sent to Gotham and Harley goes to break him out; Quinn beats up the Joker (reason this is rated as high as 3.75); Quinn and others flash their naked bodies all of the place though 'things' keep getting in the way of the reader seeing much; Quinn kisses men and women; Quinn meets again: the Joker, Power Girl, Batman, Poison Ivy (I think the only one she doesn't 'kiss' would be Batman); Quinn finds a genie bottle and releases the genie. Her wishes are granted. Horrible results.

Rating: 3.67

June 22 2017



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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Velvet Vol. 3: The Man Who Stole The World by Ed Brubaker

Velvet Vol. 3: The Man Who Stole The WorldVelvet Vol. 3: The Man Who Stole The World by Ed Brubaker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Comic book stories – told in tiny little snippets, little single issue things of 32 pages at a time (well, most of the time they are around that length), later collected in volumes that collect anywhere from 3 to 10 ‘issues’ (this book here collects issues 11-15 (which would be 160 pages, though the collected book itself is only 137 pages) – can be frustrating to read. Mostly because there is a lot of interesting lead up to . . . many cliff-hangers until a, a lot of the time, disappointing finale.

And a lot of the time, you don’t know until something like the third volume, or way too often with comic story-lines – never. They just fizzle out.

Well this specific story here looked neat from the beginning. A skilled spy who was involved in early to mid-20th century spy craft before taking herself out of the field and working as a secretary for a good portion of the rest of her career. She would be, in effect, like Agent Carter after WWII – at least what the ‘men’ wanted to happen to Carter; though here Velvet took herself out, she wasn’t forced out of spy work.

The story starts after the ‘event’ that set the action in motion, so I’m not actually sure if she was a secretary, an office worker, or something more, though I know one or more men derisively called her ‘just a secretary’ along the way (which shows more their own misogynistic tendencies and less whatever her actual job function had been).

While working in the office, Velvet (which was her spy code name) uncovers some odd information. An agent had died under mysterious circumstances. Practically from the moment she started to look into it – under her own initiative, a trip-wire was sprung; Velvet was tarred as a traitor and chased.

Well, that was what volume 1 and 2 were about. The initial action that unfolded from being targeted as a traitor (volume 1), and an attempt to unravel the mystery behind the conspiracy (volume 1 and 2). Well now we are in volume 3. If I had the volume in front of me I could tell you the date the action occurred, but I don’t so . . . 1950s? 1960s? Somewhere around there. Wait, no, there is a specific historical event that has been tied into the storyline. A specific date that makes no sense for the series – at least since I’d this vague 1950s/1960s vibe; and the historical event took place in the 1970s (view spoiler). So, the long and short, the series took place somewhere around that date – (view spoiler), the early ‘70s.

Neat to see the series unfold – two parts to that 'neatness' – 1 - coherent story told over more than one volume (3 here); 2 - it’s not a superhero story, but a spy story.

And yet . . . I end up giving the book a rating of 3.25. Why? Well, partly because it had been a while since I read issues 1-10 so had to remind myself of the story as I went along, though more importantly because the story kind of fell flat. Oh, a ton of action and suspense occurred, but it still was kind of . . . flat.

Rating: 3.25

January 24 2017



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Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Twilight Zone: The Shadow by David Avallone



The Twilight Zone: The Shadow
by David AvallonePages: 96
Date: November 15 2016
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Series: Twilight Zone/The Shadow

Review
Rating: 4.44
Read: October 8 2016

*I received this book from NetGalley, Diamond Book Distributors, and Dynamite Entertainment in return for a fair review.*

The Twilight Zone with The Shadow!

Right, so, I've seen episodes of the Twilight Zone, and I've read a few 'The Shadow' comics here and there. Though the only Twilight Zone stories I've read have been parodies so the combo of the two, plus a Twilight Zone story, will both be new to me.

The Shadow fights evil in 1930s America. At least he did until he entered 'The Twilight Zone' wherein he became . . . a voice actor performing as 'The Shadow'. At least that's the description for the book, and the opening words ('Picture if you will: In your own world, you're a fearsome crime-fighter who stalks the night . . . but you wake up today in another world, where the Master of Men is just a character you play in a radio show that bears his name.') Let's see what we get, eh?

Let's see, bunch of names - let's link them with their job since they aren't in the byline: written by David Avallone; art by Dave Acosta; colors by Omi Remalante; letters by Taylor Esposito; cover by Francesco Francavilla.

Chapter One: Shadow of a Doubt
Okay, so the book opens at a Nazi ralley in Yaphank New York, Ocotober 1939. Camp Siegfried. Midnight.

Nazi looking guy being all 'we are the master race' and stuff. People give th Nazi salute. Then a maked man erupts onto the scene and . . begins shooting everyone. hmms. Not exactly a superhero type move, but so be it. Creepy how he laughs and laughs and laughs as he pours bullets into the heads of everyone wearing a Nazi uniform (and it's interesting he seems to only shoot those in uniform - mean anything? no idea).

Margo, who is apparently the Shadow's assistant, is pissed because there were women and children down there. Shadow is all 'no harm came to them' (I'm like 'dude, you exploded brains around them, no harm? like wha?'; while Margo's all 'okay, your sure but I'm not.')

And that's enough of that. I'm not going to recount everything. But review. Reviews. There, I reviewed. heh. Right, back to reading and not commenting.

Margo: You were firing into a crowd...
Shadow: ... of NAZIs. The scum of the earth, and their spawn. I was careful to pick off only those who dared raise arms against me . . . but there were no innocents in that camp. The weed of crime . . .
Margo: if you finish that sentence I will scream. You've lost something. You used to have some connection to people. To humanity.

So - the two things, Shadow blasting away, and Margo lighting into him, gives an idea of the Shadow in his own world. But then his car explodes and when the Shadow awakens again, he is in . . . The Twilight Zone.

Unexpectedly, to me, the man who awakens is confronted by . . . the Shadow. So now we are in Star Wars land or Superman land when Luke fought himself, or when Superman fought Clark Kent. hmms. Not that Shadow and Shadow fight. The Shadow calls the other shadow 'Lamont Cranston' (Cranston-Shadow being the guy we watched blowing up a Nazi camp).

Also, unexpectedly, 'Cranston' seems quite . . . unalarmed at the situation. huh.

Ah. Circles and circles. 'Cranston' wakes up again. And looks like some 22 year old radio actor named Preston. So I was tricked. And that's the end of chapter 1.

Chapter 2: The Voice of the Shadow
Manhattan. October 24 1937

The Shadow is now the 22 year old kid. Let's see what unfolds. And I'll try harder to not comment on everything.

Oh for crying out loud. The second chapter ends thusly: *spoiler spoiler spoiler* mmphs.

Chapter 3: Birth of the Shadow
Philadelphia, 1931

A fella named Art is using the pen name 'Maxwell Grant' to bring 'The Shadow' to life.

Chapter 4: Shadowboxing
Yaphank, New York, October 1939

The Shadow wakes up and again finds himself in a different place/body. This time his own, or is it?

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This was a rather riveting neat little look into both worlds - Twilight Zone and The Shadow. I'm not sure I'll specifically read anything else in either, but this has been a fun trip. I'd recommend taking it.

Rating: 4.44

October 8 2016

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Ménage à 3 Round 7 by Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon


Ménage à 3 Round 7
by Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon
Pages: 176
Date: January 12 2016
Publisher: Pixie Trix Comix
Series: Ménage à 3 (7th collection in series)

Review
Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0
Read: March 11 2016
The gang returns for their seventh year. And shesh, I think I'm having trouble seeing now. And breathing.

I've been waiting to read this volume for like a year now (or something like that). I've been waiting until it got released. Which might not sound different than the norm, except I could have been reading it for the last year - since this is a webcomic. I was waiting for it to be all collected. Mostly because I can never remember where I am in webcomics, so I need to read by volumes. This specific one collected June 19 2014 to July 18 2015. Which means, unless the comic ended (I don't think it's ended), I have July 19 2015 to March 11 2016 I could now read. But . . I must . . resist. Until the next volume is out.

Some of the action is vaguely repetitive, in terms of certain people not admitting to their sexual orientation, while at the same time participating in same sex/bisexual/straight sex seemingly non-stop. While doing so in a very humorous way.

And here was where I was going to insert a funny strip from the collection. But I can't find it now. mmphs.

This isn't it but a sequence I refound after looking for what I was going to insert:



This is the one I was going to insert:


March 11 2016