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8 reviews

Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death by Fonografiks, Eric Stephenson, Nate Bellegarde, Jordie Bellaire

4.0

Man, I love Image's mad science books. 4 super-scientists easily equated to the Beatles start a science corporation, things go sideways. A "virus" is unleashed that turns people into unpredictable mutant type things.

FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, Vol. 1: The Paradigm Shift by Robbi Rodriguez, Simon Oliver

3.0

A little predictable, a little by-the-numbers, but a forming parallel universe is messing up physics on Earth making everything unpredictable.

The Goon Library Volume 1 by Eric Powell

5.0

I really, really, love this comic. This is my third reread of some of these stories: I didn't really realize my first time that this book has the potential to really be seen as... discriminatory? I'm not sure what the word is that I'm looking for, but it vacillates between funny, and puerile, and offensive in the way that 12 year olds are? But I can imagine many different people I know really looking down their nose at this book as insensitive, and while I can't really disagree with it, I can't help but love this book. When it's not being gross and offensive, it's being very deeply moving. And holy shit the art. So incredible.

Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet by Reilly Brown, Scott Koblish, Brian Posehn, Frank Cho, Khary Randolph, Gerry Duggan

Jesus this book was tedious.

Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham by Troy Nixey, Dennis Janke, Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Bill Oakley, Dave Stewart

5.0

I liked this book so much. I wish this was simply Batman, and not an Elseworlds story. As a person who doesn't particularly care about Batman, I found this book's explanation for why Gotham is the way it is, why Batman is who he is, why his villains are who they are, and even why his parent's died far more satisfying than the established narrative(s). The Batman universe really does feel like it was built for Lovecraft, and given that the asylum is named after Lovecraft's fictional town (Arkham), it feels like finally connecting two points.

And I love the art. Whether it's Mignola working on a Mignola book, or someone he's picked. The art is so perfectly matched to the books: delicate line work, but heavy unyielding shadows, just like the stories. I love that everything is simultaneously ugly and beautiful.

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

4.0

Railhead by Philip Reeve

5.0

Drifter, Volume 2: The Wake by Nic Klein, Tom Muller, Clem Robins, Ivan Brandon

Almost impossible to remember what happened in volume 1. I love the weird sci-fi vibe in a Borderlands style world. I can't help but wonder if this planet is supposed to be Hell or Purgatory, and everyone here is dead and that's why they can't remember their lives before coming to the planet. I sincerely hope that's the direction the comic's headed. It does make me wonder what it means, then, when a person on the planet dies.