Mark
The story is solid and well written. The art, the art. Great art. Both of the two volumes have been very enjoyable.
Excellent start to the series. Intriguing concept to plague Dr. Strange. The art is so good.
Good one. Art is just black and white, no color. Characters aren't deep, too short for that but interesting all the same. So this is more about the story/action than the people.
Enjoyable story. Really for me the art is the star here. Not too heavy or deep, just fun.
There is much to like about this series, same folks who brought you Lone and Cub. Setting is a historically accurate as possible Japan, artwork fantastic, good guys are good while the bad guys are bad, and there is a lot of violence towards women. It is easy to skip those parts, they are integral and sadly I feel like they go on a bit too much. That is why it gets three not four stars.
Good story at the core, friends in youth go back to solve an old mystery overcoming the intervening years type thing. Artwork, good - not spectacular but solid. My main complaint is that it almost moved too fast and that left some of the story a bit thin.
The characters continue to be interesting and that is heart of this series. I still find their interactions interesting if a bit frustrating at times and Provence is beautifully invoked. The plot is solid and the resolution was satisfying. Enjoyable.
Meta-fiction comics. References Harry Potter, Christopher Robin and a bunch of other works. The setting is contemporary and then in worlds of the referenced books. Well, done capturing the art style of the books. Enjoyable so far, looking forward to seeing were it goes.
Beautiful just beautiful modern poetic study of landscape, place, history. Hard to describe really.
Very brief short story, less than 30 pages, about books and folks who collect them. Oh it is is wyrd.
Enjoyable space adventures with an intriguing main character. These were short stories that have been linked together but remain episodic rather truly feeling like a whole work, which is fine. Outstanding writing as always from Mr. Martin and the world he creates is kind of bog standard space with few twists so it is easy to imagine.
Agree with the idea that this is a better book than Neuromancer but maybe doesn't get the same love? Anyway great listen, love the sprawl world even if it Gibson got a few things wrong about the future the story drives through that concern.
Story: Odd things are afoot in the English countryside:
Setting: 19th/20th century England
Language: Contemporary English
Characters: Paranormal investigators, scientists of sorts
Art: Engaging and brushy, not to detailed but clear.
Overall, a quick easy read but this type of story is told so often that to make it work it has to have a lot more going on than this rather obvious take.
A bit of slow starter and as 50+ male I may not be the primary audience for this book. However Rachel Cusk is an amazing writer and I was pulled into the story. Given that this book book was written over 30 years ago the world in which this is set seems itself almost fictional. But having lived in that world to an extent and experienced many of the same emotions at the very same time as the protagonist I was able to partially empathize, I am male so not completely. This is a just out of university, first job, first non-collegiate romance and dealing with transitioning to fully independent adult life story. But Cusk's writing elevates what is now a well used trope to something more than just a relatable twenty-somethings romp. There is real insight into the larger emotional world inhabited by many of the characters and that is the strength of this novel.
Some good artwork and lots of lore. Honestly more for the background to the game than any individual story.
Excellent conclusion to a fine series. I guess if you've gotten to this point you know that?
Loved the art work for sure and a couple of the characters were engaging. The setting is contemporaneous to 2023 and was not a challenge. This is a story about “others” and outsiders, fairly bog standard and not particularly challenging but an interesting take because of some science fictional elements that are present. There are fair number of moral quandaries but they have not been fully explored, yet. The characters that I struggled with were too violent. I get why they were being that way within the context of the story but the violence was cheap and with no repercussions in this Part 1 of 2. So, waiting.
So this is the 5th book in the series. The world is excellent as always, intriguing action, and this gives some 5o pages of notes on well, all kinds of stuff. Not a starting point. One for the fans.
A good story briskly told and a fair number of myths busted. Happily Mark Hollis is neither turned into a saint or shown to be monster. No, he shown to be a very talented human being. A very human being.
