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.

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.

This movie was just as good as I remembered. The humor is great, the lines are quotable, and if I would write a few things differently, not even John Cleese’s xenophobic ramblings can ruin this movie for me.

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.

I’m glad I watched this, but I was surprised to not enjoy it as much as expected. Part of it is the usual caveat of watching on my phone while doing chores, and part of it is age (in that its innovation has become mainstream and in that John Cleese has really taken a scary turn). Yet, I’m glad I watched it, and I’m ready to watch some other Python stuff.

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.

Horror is not at all my jam, but I’ve recently discovered analog horror, which works better for me. I didn’t like the gorier aspects of this movie, but I did find that it captures what I like about Parsons’s original short—and the genre of analog horror in general.

Also, if it wasn’t intended to be a commentary on generative AI, it sure stumbled right into that. A “poorly remembered” reality that produces extra fingers and may be dangerous to humans but whose creators think is the most important thing for us to understand today? C’mon.

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.

Queen has always had a place in my musical heart, but my exposure was mostly limited to the one CD I bought in high school. Turns out that I’ve been missing out on bangers like Under Pressure and Radio Ga Ga.