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).

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.

What a surprisingly deep book! It tells the history of the eponymous comic; more importantly, its authors reflect widely on what it means for a comic to escape containment, the ups and downs of meme culture, systemic issues that can’t be resolved through individual action, and the power of comics as memes. I was on the fence about buying it, but I’m very glad I did.

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.

My experience of the 2008 financial crisis was an interesting one. I was living abroad as a Mormon missionary, with all my bills paid for by the church (and, indirectly, my parents, who footed the costs that all Mormon missionaries pay). I lived in a bubble of religious purpose wrapped in a bubble of privilege, and it rarely occurred to me that there was real economic crisis happening around me (and all this despite reporting to someone recently retired as a high-ranking executive at Fannie Mae).

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).