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geekwayne's review against another edition
3.0
'Barbarella, Vol. 2: Hard Labor' by Mike Carey, Kenan Yarar and Donny Hadiwidjaja is the second graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment based on the cult classic movie.
Barbarella finds herself on Falladim and gets convinced to grab a grubstake in R.U.S.T.-Radically Unstable Space-Time. She finds herself on the run from a claimjumper, his two sons and his talking gun. The backup story finds Barbarella telling stories ala The Thousand and One Nights.
I enjoyed this volume as much as the first. The stories are a bit loopy, but the characters are interesting and the art is really decent in the main story. I feel like it dropped off a bit for the backup story but still works well enough.
Barbarella finds herself on Falladim and gets convinced to grab a grubstake in R.U.S.T.-Radically Unstable Space-Time. She finds herself on the run from a claimjumper, his two sons and his talking gun. The backup story finds Barbarella telling stories ala The Thousand and One Nights.
I enjoyed this volume as much as the first. The stories are a bit loopy, but the characters are interesting and the art is really decent in the main story. I feel like it dropped off a bit for the backup story but still works well enough.
graypeape's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars, but I round up, so it gets 4. I didn't read the first volume, so I'm not sure how it compares to this one, but the stories here were pretty much contained. There's a 3 part story that involves a ghost boy asking Barbarella to go to a planet to mine R.U.S.T., Radically Unstable Space-Time, and I never did figure out why. That whole arc was kinda meh. The fourth story is a 1001 Nights thing, with Barbarella telling stories to keep from getting killed after having sex with some guy, a Bluebeard-ish character. The stories she tells are of past sexual encounters, nothing too steamy, but interconnected. Another kinda meh story. I mean, it was all entertaining enough, but not really "sticks to your ribs" reading. Nice artwork though!
nharkins's review against another edition
3.0
Not as good as the first volume, but still has potential.
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