Reviews

Anno Domini 1000 by Thomas Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert

galacticturnip's review

5.0

The artwork and story were very compelling. I'm still not sure if certain aspects of the book actually happened or if a character imagined them, but either way it drew me in.

geekwayne's review

4.0

“Anno Domini 1000” with story and art by Thomas Gilbert is a graphic novel set in medieval Europe.

Brunehilde is a skilled healer and wolf charmer traveling across a landscape in ruins. As Brunehilde travels from village to village, she encounters death, famine, and fear and various travel companions. The villagers she meets are terrorized by a mysterious wolf, believed to be responsible for a series of child murders. She sets out to solve this mystery and bring peace to the ghostly children that haunt her.

The artwork in Anno Domini 1000 is great, especially the full panel illustrations that show up from time to time. The art is very detailed and intricate. I enjoyed this story of mystery and cruelty.

tawfek's review

4.0

This is an ugly world you were born into.

You Will See A lot of violence.

Yes Not all is well in this world.

But you will see, we can resist, little by little we can heal it.
And when we've had enough of misery.
Maybe one day kindness will triumph.

Thanks so much to Thomas Gilbert, Europe Comics, NetGalley, for the opportunity to read this Graphic Novel ARC, which is out now by the way, so you don't have to wait this time, Europe Comics puts these out on NetGalley 2 weeks before release date i think, i got so greedy this time and requested all of them, they are always read now.

Read This if you like the next words by the writer, because they embody what i felt this Graphic Novel was about through out the Novel.

I hate all systems that prey on the weak, the miserable, and the invisible, my work aims to expose and examine the violence perpetrated by states, social systems, and those close to us, That has been the through line of my art and my writing, it has been exhausting but, I think necessary.
This book is about animals, the people who understand them, and the fate that many creatures are left to face, the animal side within all of us, and what we do with it, the balance of power between humanity and nature.

This was very good read, Impactful on my mind, eye opening, powerful message, in defense of animals, and powerful message against the regimes that have persecuted them, one way or another, blinding everyone to the atrocities perpetrated on these creatures.

Children die everyday, some are simply too weak, some are too sweet for this world, only the strong survive.

"Some are too sweet for this world" this part was one of the most beautiful perspectives, on children dying i have read.
I like to always talk to trash about a shitty "god" who takes the lives of children before they experience this world, that they were brought into without their choice.
But some are too sweet for this world...
This story is about a serial killer who is killing kids, and the people in each village are targeting wolves instead killing them, and burning down forests around them, killing all animals inside them.
Animals are the invisible that Thomas talks about in his final word on this beautiful work.
We don't see their suffering, out of ignorance, or out of callousness.

I am here to baptize any who have not yet passed from this world, so they do not suffer the fate of this little damned soul!

It's a strong message against religions, in parts of it, past present future?
The Priest quite literally said that in answer to a woman who wanted him to baptize her baby who died after being born, she never even had a chance to baptize him in the first place.

The issue with holy texts and i always say it about Islam, Is they are simply horrible, They were wrote by horrible men, in horrible times, and we worked our asses off, to try and find different meaning to these texts, because our times are not that horrible anymore, so we are trying to find a different meaning, that goes along with our own times, with our own principals, or else the religion dies, or at least it dies in our hearts, one by one, in it's way out.

If you have any doubt concerning those women of yours who have finished with menstruation, then their count is three months; as it is with the ones who are still not menstruating. With those who are pregnant, their term will be whenever they give birth. God makes His matter easy for anyone who heeds Him.
at-Talaq 65:4

The Quran says this about when you are allowed to divorce women, and other men marry them, and it quite literally has this text on underage girls, which is through more than 10 explanations of the Quran by the biggest names in Islamic history, is always translated the same way, underage girls, for them they are saying the most casual thing in the world, it's not horrible, they know their prophet slept with his wife of 9 years old, But only in our age you will find people trying to change the meaning of the text, because it's one of the biggest weaknesses of the entire religion, which is full of weaknesses honestly.

For me i feel we are going around in circles when it comes to religions, it doesn't matter if we are living in the good times, where we can for the most part protect kids from these horrible texts, We still can't protect LGBTQ people from similar texts, we still can't protect atheist people from extremists who would kill them, because they are allowed to by holy texts, we still can't protect women who get beaten by their bigot husbands because they are allowed to by similar texts, There is always countries and people who will vehemently be against such things, even if against the world of "Allah", And there is always those who give passes because of his word.
And there is no allowance to change these texts once and for all, so you can give them a different interpretation now, but maybe in 100 years or 200 years, things go so far down the shit drain, that the extreme interpretations float to the surface again, and again people will suffer because of them.

What other laws are there?
Do Not Deliberately cause suffering.

If in the end we can agree on this, all would be better, We have all these laws in place, but sometimes it feels that we are in a lawless world somehow, It's a big ass world, Russia is at war with a country that quite literally just wanted to make a choice effecting only their lands and their people.
How many countries are fighting in Syria and using it as a test ground for their new weapons? including Russia who used weapons in Syria they would never use in Ukraine?
How many Mass shootings we hear of each year in USA? how many victims?
The Voiceless masses in Islamic countries, who get discriminated against, because of religion, sexuality, gender, each year, i really stopped using facebook, to not be so educated about the misery in our part of the world anymore, and feeling helpless to change it, i got tired of blocking people, nothing is going to change it seems.

I really don't think we are there yet, we are free yet, we are living in a good world yet, since what i was afraid of happened, and i already strayed many times from what the book is about, i ll just go on.

You know Brune, I'm happy to be on the road with you.
and it's fine if you don't want to sleep with me, i like you anyway.

You know what Paulini fuck you, this guy was horrible honestly, He was the traveling partner of the protagonist Brunhild for most of her journey, if a man ever tells you that sentence, block his ass.

A man? what for? we spend enough time in their world, It's a world i don't like, I've endured too much at their hands.

You know i love feminism, I Identify with Feminism, i speak about and defend Feminism to the best of my ability and understanding of it all, could i fail sometimes? yes, Do i look bad when i fail? probably i don't know, i speak about so many touchy subjects, that i am not sure why i get unfriended anymore