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jeriendhalWatchmen:
Summary: Do I even have to bother with this? To paraphrase the director of the recent live-action adaption, it's set in a world where Batman gave up, Superman doesn't care, and the bad guy wants to save the world.
Review: And it manages to be sad, horrifying and uplifting all at the same time. I'll admit I'm about twenty years late to the party for this book, but I can safely say it was worth the wait. The cold war nuclear fears are long gone, but it's hard to emphasize enough how layered in terms of characterization and plot the Watchmen is as a graphic novel. I know it damned well earned the Hugo award it won. In comparison, I'm afraid much of Alan Moore's later work seems to suffer by comparison, at least from my perspective.
Oh, and I know he's an utterly repellent human being who kills at least four people on and off screen, but Rorschach is just a big food stealing, door breaking, hygiene avoiding woobie.
Welcome to Tranquility
Summary: In a small town somewhere in America, superheroes and supervillians live together in more or less quiet retirement. At least until someone murders the quintesetially suave and admired super detective Mr. Articulate at the local diner. So it's up to the completely normal sheriff to get to the bottom of things, while dealing her superpowered neighbors' other, more mundane disputes.
Review: A very cute and relatively lightweight series after Watchmen, courtesy of Gail Simone. It's a nice mix of drama and comedy, as our sheriff has to deal with the investigation into Mr. Articulate's murder while handling more serious matters such a teen superheroine's attempted suicide.
Oh, and volume two had zombies. And I'm not just talking about the Cryptkeeper's copyright friendly twin, Zombie Zeke, who runs the local cemetery.
Fables, the Good Prince
Summary: Flycatcher, once upon time known as the Frog Prince, has recently regained the memories of his family's murder at the hands of the Adversary's armies. So with a little help from the ghost of Sir Lancelot, he moves from our mundane world back to the wold of fairy tales, to become a very large thorn in the Empire's side.
Review: Flycatcher my man, you are one big Gary Stu as you're written here. But for some reason it actually does work in the context of the story.
Summary: Do I even have to bother with this? To paraphrase the director of the recent live-action adaption, it's set in a world where Batman gave up, Superman doesn't care, and the bad guy wants to save the world.
Review: And it manages to be sad, horrifying and uplifting all at the same time. I'll admit I'm about twenty years late to the party for this book, but I can safely say it was worth the wait. The cold war nuclear fears are long gone, but it's hard to emphasize enough how layered in terms of characterization and plot the Watchmen is as a graphic novel. I know it damned well earned the Hugo award it won. In comparison, I'm afraid much of Alan Moore's later work seems to suffer by comparison, at least from my perspective.
Oh, and I know he's an utterly repellent human being who kills at least four people on and off screen, but Rorschach is just a big food stealing, door breaking, hygiene avoiding woobie.
Welcome to Tranquility
Summary: In a small town somewhere in America, superheroes and supervillians live together in more or less quiet retirement. At least until someone murders the quintesetially suave and admired super detective Mr. Articulate at the local diner. So it's up to the completely normal sheriff to get to the bottom of things, while dealing her superpowered neighbors' other, more mundane disputes.
Review: A very cute and relatively lightweight series after Watchmen, courtesy of Gail Simone. It's a nice mix of drama and comedy, as our sheriff has to deal with the investigation into Mr. Articulate's murder while handling more serious matters such a teen superheroine's attempted suicide.
Oh, and volume two had zombies. And I'm not just talking about the Cryptkeeper's copyright friendly twin, Zombie Zeke, who runs the local cemetery.
Fables, the Good Prince
Summary: Flycatcher, once upon time known as the Frog Prince, has recently regained the memories of his family's murder at the hands of the Adversary's armies. So with a little help from the ghost of Sir Lancelot, he moves from our mundane world back to the wold of fairy tales, to become a very large thorn in the Empire's side.
Review: Flycatcher my man, you are one big Gary Stu as you're written here. But for some reason it actually does work in the context of the story.
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Date: 2009-07-07 09:16 pm (UTC)