Jak

Have had this for a while but kept on putting off reading it. Finally checked it out. Pretty good, overall. Definitely a different vibe than her Hark! A Vagrant style comics, as it's way more personal and serious. Very poignant and heart-wrenching at times.

Took a bit to get into this one, twice-over. I wasn't thrilled with the characters in the first bit, but grew to like them as the plot accelerated and got more interesting. There were bits of story that I didn't care for, like how certain details or events just happened off-screen and were relayed afterward. But overall the first story arc resolved somewhat satisfyingly. The second part, set 5k years later, also took a bit to get into, but steadily got more interesting. I feel it ended a bit too soon, right as things were getting interesting?

Had gotten this a while back through a Kickstarter that Simon Stålenhag had done for this project. Been meaning to read it for a while but kept on forgetting. Finally sat down to read. Despite the length, I finished it pretty quickly; it's mostly art/imagery, and the narrative story is actually very short. The art, of course, was great, though the story was relatively simple. I wish more had been fleshed out with the backstory and setting, as it was super interesting but very lightly touched on. All in all, pretty solid. I liked how the thing with the boy wasn't, like, "oh aliens took him over and made him do it", it was just simple revenge for an awful act. Although it DOES lean a bit too hard on "trauma makes you crazy", such as the scenes with him creepily typing into a DOS prompt.

Bought this from Amazon a while back, since I liked the first one. Finally got around to reading it. A few of the scenarios I had already seen from the blog, but most of them were new to me and somewhat interesting.

Got this based on various positive things I heard about it. Was a bit weird to get a copy of...he's a self-published author, and he's not on Amazon, so I ended up getting it through the Google Play store and reading the ebook version on the iOS book app, not Kindle. Interesting read, definitely, though pretty difficult to understand what's happening a lot of the time, owing to the author's constant use of outdated terminology and lack of context provided for any of the more fantastical elements. Not to mention various character interactions described through layered metaphors rather than straightforward prose. But still, an interesting take on military sci-fi, or rather, "military fantasy". Ending was a little weak, I felt, but it packed in a lot of world-building and somewhat-explanation for certain things.