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.

Slow Horses Season 6 made a lot of strange adaptation choices, but I appreciate that they kept the “Poirot” bit and made it work for television despite being so heavily dependent on narration in the original.

Adapting two books (and maybe half of another? I have trouble keeping the books straight) at once was an interesting choice, and I thought they were going to pull it off at first. By the end, I was annoyed at how many plot threads were being jammed into a single finale. Herron can be cruel to his characters, but this adaption just did two of them dirty; similarly, the terrible twist at the end makes hardly any sense in the adaptation when compared to how it’s set up in the source material. I enjoyed watching this season, and I’ll always take more Slow Horses, but this ultimately felt like another disappointment.

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.

On peut voir que je m’ennuie de mes podcasts en ce moment, car je continue à écouter cette série parfois ridicule mais toujours intéressant.

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.

J’ai fait une grosse pause en écoutant cette série, car l’appli Radio France est bien pénible, et ça m’a empêché de vouloir continuer. Regarder Quai d’Orsay m’a donné envie de reprendre la série, et puis j’ai enfin appris à me servir de la file d’attente sur l’appli pour rendre les choses… moins pénibles.

C’est donc une deuxième saison intéressante. J’aime la façon dont on fait de la fausse radio pour rendre plus intéressante une série radiophonique.

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

Il y a plusieurs années, j’ai eu le plasir de lire « Weapons of Mass Diplomacy », la traduction anglaise de la BD qui a inspiré ce film sur l’expérience d’un homme qui travaille à Quai d’Orsay dans les mois qui précédaient l’invasion américaine d’Irak. J’ai beaucoup aimé la BD tout en reconnaissant que j’aurais mieux aimé la lire en français.

Quand j’ai vu que ce film était disponible chez Kanopy, j’ai su que c’était ma chance de saisir les nuances qui disparaissent en traduction (même si d’autres nuances disparaissent en adaptation, bien sûr).

Cette semaine, je vais faire livrer le nouveau tome Brume jusqu’aux USA pour moi et ma fille, mais ce n’est qu’en commandant un tas de choses de chez Fnac que les frais de port deviennent supportables. J’accepte donc tout conseil sur ce qu’il faut lire de francophone en ce moment !

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

Looking back, I’m surprised I rated the TJ’s English Breakfast full marks because I’ve kind of been avoiding it recently. That didn’t stop me from trying their Irish Breakfast, which wasn’t bad but wasn’t exciting either. Cheap tea tastes cheap, I guess.

This is an amazing chocolate and coconut black tea that I’m going to enjoy all five sampler ounces of!

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!

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.

Needed MORE tea at work and went for this, also doubling it up. Wow, was it good. Reminded me of drinking black cherry Kool-Aid as a kid, except without obscene amounts of sugar. Would gladly drink more of this.

Needed some tea at work and gave this a try, doubling up teabags for extra flavor. Really hit the spot!

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.