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Casanova, Vol. 2: Gula by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon, Matt Fraction

crystalstarrlight's review against another edition

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2.0

Bullet Review:

Other than occasional glimpses of a plot and hints of what might in other books be called character development, I am bemused by this. WHAT IS CASANOVA QUINN not when!!! What is this and what does it mean and is there a point???!

reickel's review against another edition

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5.0

The back-half of this Gula is so excellent. Payoff hits chapter after chapter, really starting with Naomi I Moan.

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Art is elite--my favorite artists hitting their stride nicely. It'll get a 5-star review from me most of the time on its own.

Fortunately the art isn't sabotaged by the story, and I thought it did well creating compelling situations for characters I liked.

angeliki6's review against another edition

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5.0

I cannot stress enough just how insanely beautiful the art is in this book.
Also, Zephyr Quinn (yes it still counts shush) life goals or wife goals, amirite?

stilldirty's review against another edition

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5.0

My brain hurts so good.

jakekilroy's review against another edition

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4.0

While this stretch of the series is more understandable, comparatively anyway (or maybe just 'cause the intro's wrapped), it's still bunko bonkers, just madcap sci-fi espionage as gleeful as it comes. It's as swingin', slangin', and winkin' as the first batch, and them pages keeps its a weird sense of cool.

ryanklindsay's review

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5.0

Pure and stark genius.

jonathanwlodarski's review

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4.0

Enjoying if not totally following all the time?

3.5/5

noysh's review against another edition

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3.0

This was a 'good enough' tying off of loose ends to volume 1 of Cassanova. But, I feel like it was really far too coherent and straight-forward a tale to really stand up to the manic confusing mess that made the first volume so much fun. The story seemed to flow logically from point A to B to C instead of illogically from D to Z to A the way the previous volume did. And I feel a lot of the fun left with the incoherence.

skolastic's review

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2.0

Yeah, I'm done with Casanova. There's stirrings of something that could be really good here, but it's all just kind of awash in a mishmash of gratuitous sex/violence. (I'd probably read a Newman Xeno spinoff series, though.)

jamesdavidward's review

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4.0

I love Casanova. It just gets stranger, funnier, and more inventive as it goes on. The art and dialogue are superb, the plot dazzling, and its confidence puts you right at ease. I'm a fan of Fraction and the twins anyway, but this is the high quality shit right here.