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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
10/10 for first graphic novel experience.
Will be reading more!
Will be reading more!
Very imaginative... visual novel? Anyway, pretty funny and got me chuckled more times than I thought it could. On to the next one!
Well, dammit to hell.
Ugh.
NOW I remember why I had put off reading these.
But I had forgotten my reason so when Karly's stupid review (please note: The review, itself, is not stupid. It is quite lovely. In fact, too lovely, which is what pushed me onto the bandwagon I had forgotten I was intentionally avoiding and that is what is stupid) re-piqued my interest and since the first three volumes were sitting on the shelves up front, I checked them out and read them over the weekend and guess the hell what?
The story isn't finished! DAMMIT! It's still going. DAMMIT! This is going to be one of those hurry up and wait things and I absolutely hate that and that is EXACTLY the reason I hadn't started reading these. DAMMIT!
Because I knew.
I knew I would need the full story. I made this mistake with Vaughan's Y: The Last Man series and I said I wouldn't do it again, yet here I am.
I'm probably going to die while I wait for each collection to be published. The wait will be painful and I'll forget too much in the gaps. Oh good god, I hate it when I do this to myself.
As for the actual series, so far:
I like Vaughan's writing, I always have. He did a Spiderman set I liked long ago and I enjoyed his X-Men stories and that author recognition urged me to read Runaways and Y when they came in. This guy is one of the very few mainstream comic book authors who make me say, "Oh, hey! I know who that guy is and what he writes!"
So far, I like this tale just as much as I've enjoyed everything else he's done. His style is quite pleasing for me. It's fast but comprehensive, there's nuance but it's efficient. It's light-hearted and humorous but there's deeper meaning. I appreciate it all. I truly like how this guy writes.
And the art? Goodness! So sweeping and operatic in its fantasticalness and yet such attention to detail. Yeah, everyone is beautiful - I suspect even Fard (from vol. 2) and his gnarly nards are beautiful by three-eyed giant standards - even the grotesque ones...maybe the grotesque ones most of all, actually. I loved The Stalk. She's phenomenal. I would want to be her if I got to live in this universe. YES! Even though...I would still want to be her, running about on my clicketing little fingers. OMG, she is awesome. But anyway, yes, everyone is beautiful but I didn't mind. My eyes were so happy looking at all the stuff and I was so swept up in everything that I just didn't care that there was too much perfection. I figured I'd chalk it up to some sort of gene splicing that had been done long ago to make everyone pretty. And some of them not-so-pretty but still fun to see. Plus, all the little visual jokes and all the coloryness and all the all of it, I just ate it up.
You know what? If it were really a possibility to have a round little lump of a baby with tiny horns and itty bitty naked chicken wings? I'd have given it a go. I've learned something while reading these books: I am really into manbeast things. I always have been. I've had a soft spot for the Minotaur, centaurs, pixies, fawns, satyrs (from a healthy distance, they're super rapey), mermaids, harpies, lamia...all the part-critter/part-people races for as long as I can remember. Not were-things, though. Were-things make me roll my eyes and sigh with exasperation. I like the part this/part that things and the population of this universe is no exception. Actually, it was the picture of Marko with his curly horns and his sledgehammer in Karly's review that pushed me right aboard this wicked train. I told Gabe he needed to start growing the ram horns. Had I been Lili in "Legend", that Darkness would not have had to work nearly so hard to seduce me (ok, not hard at all because in addition to being all horned, and stuff, he was also Tim Curry, soooo...deal: SEALED!) and I'd be there still. Well, at least my husk of a corpse would be. I assume. The point here is that it took me until these books to realize that my fetish for the weird resides with the manbeasts. Which makes sense, what with me being from a witchy line, and all.
So here I am, on board this damned train of stupid, waiting like a moron. Ugh. I already regret forgetting my vow to not start this series until it was done. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Ugh.
NOW I remember why I had put off reading these.
But I had forgotten my reason so when Karly's stupid review (please note: The review, itself, is not stupid. It is quite lovely. In fact, too lovely, which is what pushed me onto the bandwagon I had forgotten I was intentionally avoiding and that is what is stupid) re-piqued my interest and since the first three volumes were sitting on the shelves up front, I checked them out and read them over the weekend and guess the hell what?
The story isn't finished! DAMMIT! It's still going. DAMMIT! This is going to be one of those hurry up and wait things and I absolutely hate that and that is EXACTLY the reason I hadn't started reading these. DAMMIT!
Because I knew.
I knew I would need the full story. I made this mistake with Vaughan's Y: The Last Man series and I said I wouldn't do it again, yet here I am.
I'm probably going to die while I wait for each collection to be published. The wait will be painful and I'll forget too much in the gaps. Oh good god, I hate it when I do this to myself.
As for the actual series, so far:
I like Vaughan's writing, I always have. He did a Spiderman set I liked long ago and I enjoyed his X-Men stories and that author recognition urged me to read Runaways and Y when they came in. This guy is one of the very few mainstream comic book authors who make me say, "Oh, hey! I know who that guy is and what he writes!"
So far, I like this tale just as much as I've enjoyed everything else he's done. His style is quite pleasing for me. It's fast but comprehensive, there's nuance but it's efficient. It's light-hearted and humorous but there's deeper meaning. I appreciate it all. I truly like how this guy writes.
And the art? Goodness! So sweeping and operatic in its fantasticalness and yet such attention to detail. Yeah, everyone is beautiful - I suspect even Fard (from vol. 2) and his gnarly nards are beautiful by three-eyed giant standards - even the grotesque ones...maybe the grotesque ones most of all, actually. I loved The Stalk. She's phenomenal. I would want to be her if I got to live in this universe. YES! Even though...I would still want to be her, running about on my clicketing little fingers. OMG, she is awesome. But anyway, yes, everyone is beautiful but I didn't mind. My eyes were so happy looking at all the stuff and I was so swept up in everything that I just didn't care that there was too much perfection. I figured I'd chalk it up to some sort of gene splicing that had been done long ago to make everyone pretty. And some of them not-so-pretty but still fun to see. Plus, all the little visual jokes and all the coloryness and all the all of it, I just ate it up.
You know what? If it were really a possibility to have a round little lump of a baby with tiny horns and itty bitty naked chicken wings? I'd have given it a go. I've learned something while reading these books: I am really into manbeast things. I always have been. I've had a soft spot for the Minotaur, centaurs, pixies, fawns, satyrs (from a healthy distance, they're super rapey), mermaids, harpies, lamia...all the part-critter/part-people races for as long as I can remember. Not were-things, though. Were-things make me roll my eyes and sigh with exasperation. I like the part this/part that things and the population of this universe is no exception. Actually, it was the picture of Marko with his curly horns and his sledgehammer in Karly's review that pushed me right aboard this wicked train. I told Gabe he needed to start growing the ram horns. Had I been Lili in "Legend", that Darkness would not have had to work nearly so hard to seduce me (ok, not hard at all because in addition to being all horned, and stuff, he was also Tim Curry, soooo...deal: SEALED!) and I'd be there still. Well, at least my husk of a corpse would be. I assume. The point here is that it took me until these books to realize that my fetish for the weird resides with the manbeasts. Which makes sense, what with me being from a witchy line, and all.
So here I am, on board this damned train of stupid, waiting like a moron. Ugh. I already regret forgetting my vow to not start this series until it was done. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
My first proper introduction to Western comics! I don’t count spin-offs to canons I knew from books and such, so that was a fun introduction to the genre. I went in with the most open mind, and on highest praise from a number of people whose opinions I respect and whose tastes generally vary quite a lot, so I was pretty optimistic. And I wasn’t disappointed!
The art is fabulous: quirky and creepy where needed, very expressive and easy to read and map onto a story. The character design is super-hot, I’m very impressed by how STYLISH they all are and yet not at all like each other: the levels vary from “holy shit i’d tap that” to “HOLY SHIT NIGHTMARE FUEL CANNOT BE THIS DISTURBINGLY ATTRACTIVE.” And then of course, there are always TV-head people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
As for the plot, I think people with their own families would connect better to the child-bearing and bringing up aspect of it. Personally I have a limited connection to it: I find it not relatable in parts about parenting, but very relatable in terms of adults being hot messes who still try better, and come with a baggage that they deem worth dealing with for the sake of each other. I like that they pit the runaway family against an adorable murderfamily of sorts (so excited to see what will come of the ex-fiancee joining them) as well as other, less savoury factions with confused agendas of their own. And I really like the connections forged along the way: the ghost babysitter is as of now is my favourite side character. Another thing I really appreciate is how the writing and the art work together to tell the story, complementing and not distracting from each other, making it very easy to follow and understand what’s happening both in short and long term.
Excited to continue!
The art is fabulous: quirky and creepy where needed, very expressive and easy to read and map onto a story. The character design is super-hot, I’m very impressed by how STYLISH they all are and yet not at all like each other: the levels vary from “holy shit i’d tap that” to “HOLY SHIT NIGHTMARE FUEL CANNOT BE THIS DISTURBINGLY ATTRACTIVE.” And then of course, there are always TV-head people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
As for the plot, I think people with their own families would connect better to the child-bearing and bringing up aspect of it. Personally I have a limited connection to it: I find it not relatable in parts about parenting, but very relatable in terms of adults being hot messes who still try better, and come with a baggage that they deem worth dealing with for the sake of each other. I like that they pit the runaway family against an adorable murderfamily of sorts (so excited to see what will come of the ex-fiancee joining them) as well as other, less savoury factions with confused agendas of their own. And I really like the connections forged along the way: the ghost babysitter is as of now is my favourite side character. Another thing I really appreciate is how the writing and the art work together to tell the story, complementing and not distracting from each other, making it very easy to follow and understand what’s happening both in short and long term.
Excited to continue!
Compelling story, told from the point of view of the baby. Honestly, I'm enjoying the illustrations more than than the content, but I've already started on v.2, so obviously, the story has my attention.
What a great story. I'm excited to read the rest of them. I love the story lines, the artwork and the allusions to cultural issues we have in society today.
How did I put off reading this for so long? Like I was making myself miss out on a masterpiece. If I wasn't tired I'd binge the whole series in one go right now.
Oh I'm going to have nightmares about the heads with legs and no bodies aliens....those are slight nightmare fuel for me.
Oh I'm going to have nightmares about the heads with legs and no bodies aliens....those are slight nightmare fuel for me.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The art style was amazing and my favourite thing about this. I wasn't overly into the story, the forced dialogues or some of the side characters (the Will). A bit too fake edgy and dudebro for me, but will continue. 2.5 ☆