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reickel's review against another edition
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.
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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
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?
Also, Zephyr Quinn (yes it still counts shush) life goals or wife goals, amirite?
jakekilroy's review against another edition
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.
jonathanwlodarski's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoying if not totally following all the time?
3.5/5
3.5/5
noysh's review
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 against another edition
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 against another edition
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.
hypops's review against another edition
3.0
Writer Matt Fraction aims for Thomas Pynchon by way of Ian Fleming, but hits closer to Tom Robbins by way of Red Dwarf. That’s not meant as a judgment of the book’s quality so much as it is a judgment against its unearned pretense and smarmy tone. It’s a book that is neither as funny nor as “wildly postmodern” as it thinks it is.
Its saving grace is Fabio Moon’s art. Following in his brother’s footsteps (Gabriel Ba did the art for the first volume), Moon brings to Fraction’s script what little life, energy, and wit it does have. And because this volume follows a more legible plot and chronology than the first volume, the art too is more legible and can establish a groove much more in line with the action.
But for all of its self-conscious postmodern-ness (fourth-wall winks, abundant high and low cultural allusions, unstable character identities, etc, etc), Casanova ends up reading like the muted, distant echo of similarly wild—and far more beautifully insane—espionage comics like Michel Fiffe’s Copra, Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT, and even Brandon Graham’s Multiple Warheads.
Its saving grace is Fabio Moon’s art. Following in his brother’s footsteps (Gabriel Ba did the art for the first volume), Moon brings to Fraction’s script what little life, energy, and wit it does have. And because this volume follows a more legible plot and chronology than the first volume, the art too is more legible and can establish a groove much more in line with the action.
But for all of its self-conscious postmodern-ness (fourth-wall winks, abundant high and low cultural allusions, unstable character identities, etc, etc), Casanova ends up reading like the muted, distant echo of similarly wild—and far more beautifully insane—espionage comics like Michel Fiffe’s Copra, Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT, and even Brandon Graham’s Multiple Warheads.
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