A fun and worthy conclusion to the series! I am rating it slightly lower to channel all of my minor complaints from the whole series (and because many of them were present here), but it’s not bad at all.

Still wary of it crossing into sitcom territory (and clearly trying to wrap up plot threads for a finale), but it’s also so damn good at being a cozy little self-contained world that I’m giving it a pass.

Yes, the series is starting to get a little hokey, but it gets credit for exploring all of its different characters and having fun with the world its built.

There are things I could critique about this series, and the last story in this omnibus feels like an awkward not-quite-but-maybe-finale that makes me worried about what’s to come, but it’s so darn cozy that it’s hard to find fault with it. I love a story that combines the fantastic with the mundane, and this does it so, so well.

We stopped following the Alan Tudyk Syfy adaptation of this comic after a while, but I remember enjoying the first season, at least. Rereading the original comics reminded me how different—and how much better—the source material is, though. More subtle, more heartwarming, more interesting. The Dark Horse Humble Bundle I bought a while back only had the first omnibus, but I’m going to have to hold my nose and turn to hoopla to read the rest.

This got an interesting ending, but I don’t know if it’s a satisfying one. I appreciated some of the ideas it explored, though, so still a good(ish) rating from me.

Still good, though I’m ready to get to the end of the story after some clear ratcheting up of tensions.

Nothing special about this volume, but it’s still good, and I’m very invested in the story now.

Still good art, still interesting story, still difficult to interpret “let’s treat robots as people” in a post-2022 world. That said, the Driller flashback in this volume helped me think more about how the folks who want us to believe AI models might be alive also want us to make those models do our work for us.

The art is still good, and the story is still interesting. It may not grab me as much as some other comics, but I see why it gets the praise it does.

Generative AI has made it very hard for me to enjoy a “robots are people, too” story in the way I used to, but this is good, and I’m looking forward to reading more!

Learning more about the brutality of Soviet gulags is a good experience to have with a comic, and there’s much to appreciate here, but even if it’s not trying to be edgy, per se, the blood and cannibalism were too much for me.

Like the first issue, there’s enough here to like but also some I could have done without. The flashbacks work for me, but the story feels a bit rushed—and as though it will need to rush more if it’s going to conclude in issue 3, as seems to be promised.

Imagine taking Star Wars, putting it in a blender with other sci-fi franchises, and then slapping an R rating onto what the results. It mostly works, especially because it’s so transparent about that being its approach, but as dumb as it is for Star Wars to pretend that its blasters can bloodlessly kill the bad guys, I prefer that to seeing the gory results of this series.

The premise of this comic—girls and women violently resist werewolves who are a mix of feminist metaphor and supernatural phenomenon—is not quite my jam, so I don’t worry about not having any more volumes of it. It’s quite good, though, and I liked it more than I expected from the first few pages.

This felt like a real rollercoaster of a read. As a child of the 90s, I knew the Jim Carrey adaptation of this (and the animated adaptation of that) existed, but I never encountered them. At some point, I learned that there was an original comic source to all of that, but I never expected to read it.

I approached the book with open curiosity, hated the first part of it, and then got mostly won over by the rest. It’s interesting in art and premise, it is dark without being too much so, and I appreciate it for what it is.

Peut-être que c’est bête de tellement aimer un petit « storyboard » qui n’a même pas de fin, mais ça fait un moment que je m’intéresse à l’art de Boulet, et ça m’a fait beaucoup de plaisir de m’offrir une petite bd en numérique à quelques euros seulement. J’aime l’histoire, j’aime surtout l’art, et j’espère que les Éditions Digitales vont trouver beaucoup de succès parce que j’aimerais bien acheter plus de choses comme ceci.

Vampire stories aren’t really my thing, but as far as vampire stories go, this is a good one! 90s New York is an interesting setting, I like the cultural shake-up, and the art is a lot of fun.

Hellboy reminds me a lot of Atomic Robo. I love the idea, I like the art, it’s pulpy in a fun way, but after a while, I just get bored of it.

Okay, so I didn’t actually read the final TPB. I cobbled together individual issues from hoopla (boooo, hoopla) but couldn’t be bothered to review them individually.

That’s probably good, because I didn’t like the first issue at all—I had trouble remembering what had happened in the previous TPB and struggled to get back into the plot. I still think the plot is kind of dumb, but reading the remaining issues reminds me that I like Guillory’s characters, art, and clear personal investment in this story. I’m being generous with my rating, but I think he’s earned it. (Chew is still too weird for me to try, though).

There’s so much about this series that shouldn’t work. The protagonist is clearly meant to be feminist but borders on angry manhater and is clad in typical comic book superheroine attire. Would it surprise you to know the creative team is all male?

Yet, for all of its very clear faults, there’s something about it that works? Or at least that I found to be an engaging read. Maybe there’s something here under the problems, or maybe I’m just part of the problem. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I chuckled at the Ben Reilly scenes in the second Spider-Verse movie because I know the jokes about 90s superhero comics, but I hadn’t actually experienced 90s superhero comics.

While, now I have, and I get the jokes even more. This was hard to convince myself to finish: It felt like a trying-too-hard attempt to build an interesting comics universe, but it just wound up being dumb and sometimes poorly illustrated.

I struggled with how to rate this one. I’m going to settle for this: Just because a series that knows it’s being dumb and fanservicey does not automatically elevate it above being dumb and fanservicey.

Not life-changing, but a pretty good comic. I didn’t know about this apparently legendary story, but it was fun to learn about.

Like the last volume, I’m less convinced by the plot as it continues, but there’s still so much about this that’s good. I appreciate the portrayal of faith without being preachy, I like the art, and there is still plenty of humor.

This is the last PDF I own, and I didn’t realize there was a fifth TPB that rounds out the story. I’ll have to track it down somehow…