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This is definitely a slice of life series. Feels a lot like Keiki's delivery service, where not a ton happens except some cute light interactions.
It is very light on dialogue, but I liked the art style a lot.
I won't be continuing the series, but if you are interested in something with great art and some cute dialogue worth trying.
It is very light on dialogue, but I liked the art style a lot.
I won't be continuing the series, but if you are interested in something with great art and some cute dialogue worth trying.
This was interesting, but the fights were a little difficult to follow. I also have mixed feelings on the art style, the big muscle men all started to blend together to me.
I wouldn't be opposed to reading the next volume of the arc, but it won't be getting priority from me.
I wouldn't be opposed to reading the next volume of the arc, but it won't be getting priority from me.
This was an interesting one, I have minimal knowledge of Wonder Woman, but really want to give her another go (I wasn't a fan of the New 52 story line).
The story begins and it is really confusing, without spoiling anything Wonder WOman is confused about who she is and is convinced she has in part been living a lie. At first, I thought this was an attempt to rectify the DC Rebirth storyline, but i'm not certain it was. It seemed like this was referring to things that happened in the past, but this was the first volume. Rather frustrating for a new fan.
One thing I did like is the story jumps right into it, rather then worrying about giving a super in depth origin story. Most people have a basic knowledge of this hero, so it was nice to get right to the meat of the story. I just wish the initial part of the book didn't keep referring to events that clearly happened in the past and weren't common knowledge.
One thing I really enjoyed was Cheatah's involvement with the story, she was a compelling character.
Wonder Woman herself felt a little flat, she has a personality, but her dialogue is pretty basic and she feels very one dimensional. There aren't any great fights or even confrontations in the novel, with Wonder Woman sort of springing forward, smashing, and then done.
Overall it wasn't bad, but it felt like very little content. Not certain I will be looking for volume 2
The story begins and it is really confusing, without spoiling anything Wonder WOman is confused about who she is and is convinced she has in part been living a lie. At first, I thought this was an attempt to rectify the DC Rebirth storyline, but i'm not certain it was. It seemed like this was referring to things that happened in the past, but this was the first volume. Rather frustrating for a new fan.
One thing I did like is the story jumps right into it, rather then worrying about giving a super in depth origin story. Most people have a basic knowledge of this hero, so it was nice to get right to the meat of the story. I just wish the initial part of the book didn't keep referring to events that clearly happened in the past and weren't common knowledge.
One thing I really enjoyed was Cheatah's involvement with the story, she was a compelling character.
Wonder Woman herself felt a little flat, she has a personality, but her dialogue is pretty basic and she feels very one dimensional. There aren't any great fights or even confrontations in the novel, with Wonder Woman sort of springing forward, smashing, and then done.
Overall it wasn't bad, but it felt like very little content. Not certain I will be looking for volume 2
Not as good as the first book. I still enjoyed it, but I didn't find the characters as likeable, nor did I find the actual plot as interesting. There is also a Universe wide threat that pops up as an problem, and I always hate those, I liked the isolated Alien feel to the first book, this didn't quite have that.
That said I am still going to read the 3rd book. This still had memorable moments and dialogue, well worth a read if you enjoyed the first book.
That said I am still going to read the 3rd book. This still had memorable moments and dialogue, well worth a read if you enjoyed the first book.
I really wanted to like this. I am a HUGE D&D fan, and really enjoyed Empire of Imagination. Unsurprisngly this doesn't manage to cover as much information as a 300 page book, but I hoped that the graphic novel format would lead to some interesting examination of the Gygax and D&D, unfortunately it didn't.
The timeline jumped around quite a bit, and also glossed over some major points in D&D's creation. It doesn't mention Gary's friend Don (and partner with the first print of D&D) dies unexpectedly, it also doesn't mention the terms Gary made with his co-creator before the lawsuit.
I do think it gave a decent basic overview of the rise of the game, and it's influences. I also liked how it managed to track the continued growth of the game, still claiming a place in gaming, despite video gaming growing in popularity.
This is worth a read if you want to know the basics of D&D's creation; however, if you want more just go read Empire of Imagination.
The timeline jumped around quite a bit, and also glossed over some major points in D&D's creation. It doesn't mention Gary's friend Don (and partner with the first print of D&D) dies unexpectedly, it also doesn't mention the terms Gary made with his co-creator before the lawsuit.
I do think it gave a decent basic overview of the rise of the game, and it's influences. I also liked how it managed to track the continued growth of the game, still claiming a place in gaming, despite video gaming growing in popularity.
This is worth a read if you want to know the basics of D&D's creation; however, if you want more just go read Empire of Imagination.
I did not like this, I wanted to, but I didn't. I found it rather boring, and found Scott a pretty dislikable characters.
I thought the movie was ok, and figured I would give the book a try, and maybe it would be better. But I found it was the reverse, the book takes longer to get into the meat of the story. The dialogue was mediocre and I didn't find the story remotely funny. In addition, I found Scott to be even more of a jerk and rather creepy.
There weren't the fun little nods to old school video gaming, at least not in the first 50 pages. I gave up about 1/4 thru and returned it to the library. Thank goodness I didn't buy this book!
I thought the movie was ok, and figured I would give the book a try, and maybe it would be better. But I found it was the reverse, the book takes longer to get into the meat of the story. The dialogue was mediocre and I didn't find the story remotely funny. In addition, I found Scott to be even more of a jerk and rather creepy.
There weren't the fun little nods to old school video gaming, at least not in the first 50 pages. I gave up about 1/4 thru and returned it to the library. Thank goodness I didn't buy this book!
Parts of this book were completely engrossing, while others were quite dull or repetitive. This is a historical study of Partisans during WWII, with a special focus on the Bielski and Jewish Partisans. It also inspired an amazing movie, Defiance, which is why I wanted to read the book.
Quick overview of pros and cons:
Pros:
-Interesting fresh view of some parts of Jewish resistance
-Nice section examining the difference between Bielski's emphasis on "surviving" vs other partisans' emphasis on fighting
-Nice beginning showing some of the political and social environments of the are pre WWII, specifically giving an intimate view of Tuvia
Cons:
-After first few chapters the book is not chronological and jumps around
-very tough to get a true feel for the everyday lives of the Bielski partisans, which was odd since most of the source material used was oral
-The book begins arguing Tuvia as a great example of Jewish militaristic resistance to the Nazis, but then pretty much gives no accounts of anything done by him or his men militarily.
-Tuvia starts as the focus, disappears from the narrative for sections, and then pops back up, but the rest of the Bielskis are pretty much nonexistant
Unfortunately, the book didn't really do a great job actually solidifying my understanding of the Bielski family or brothers. Instead, it uses primarily Tuvia, as a lens to examine the large movements of Jewish resistance, or as the book calls it Defiance, in the Belorussian forest, specifically examining partisans, but also families, ghetto runaways, ect. This larger focus was fine; however, it did take away from a truly focused argument.
The book begins mostly chronologically but then meanders depending on what topic the author wanted to discuss, making the overall narrative VERY difficult to follow.
I also was shocked how little I truly felt I knew about the Bielski partisans after reading the book. I didn't have a firm grasp of their everyday lives. Food and food distribution is mentioned, but it was never entirely clear beyond that and producing goods what everyday life in the camp was like. How frequent were attacks on the partisans by Germans? How frequently did they do partisan activities? What, beyond basic survival things, did they do in camp, if anything? What discussions took place in camp about antisemitism? What happened to camp members once the camp was disbanded?
I wanted a better understanding of the experience, and felt like this book gave jarring quick snippets, in a jumping around sort of order, but I didn't feel like I gained too much new understanding. It was tough to place the partisan movement in the forests alongside the larger events at the time, even brief mentions giving context would have helped immensely, but this wasn't done.
Overall, I went in with very high expectations and hopes, and did not feel like this book delivered. It was at times fascinating (about 20% of the time) and the rest of the time very repetitive repeating things about food, distribution, and weapon scarcity over and over and over.
Please note, I am no stranger to denser historical books, so merely being more academic is not what made me think it was merely Ok.
Quick overview of pros and cons:
Pros:
-Interesting fresh view of some parts of Jewish resistance
-Nice section examining the difference between Bielski's emphasis on "surviving" vs other partisans' emphasis on fighting
-Nice beginning showing some of the political and social environments of the are pre WWII, specifically giving an intimate view of Tuvia
Cons:
-After first few chapters the book is not chronological and jumps around
-very tough to get a true feel for the everyday lives of the Bielski partisans, which was odd since most of the source material used was oral
-The book begins arguing Tuvia as a great example of Jewish militaristic resistance to the Nazis, but then pretty much gives no accounts of anything done by him or his men militarily.
-Tuvia starts as the focus, disappears from the narrative for sections, and then pops back up, but the rest of the Bielskis are pretty much nonexistant
Unfortunately, the book didn't really do a great job actually solidifying my understanding of the Bielski family or brothers. Instead, it uses primarily Tuvia, as a lens to examine the large movements of Jewish resistance, or as the book calls it Defiance, in the Belorussian forest, specifically examining partisans, but also families, ghetto runaways, ect. This larger focus was fine; however, it did take away from a truly focused argument.
The book begins mostly chronologically but then meanders depending on what topic the author wanted to discuss, making the overall narrative VERY difficult to follow.
I also was shocked how little I truly felt I knew about the Bielski partisans after reading the book. I didn't have a firm grasp of their everyday lives. Food and food distribution is mentioned, but it was never entirely clear beyond that and producing goods what everyday life in the camp was like. How frequent were attacks on the partisans by Germans? How frequently did they do partisan activities? What, beyond basic survival things, did they do in camp, if anything? What discussions took place in camp about antisemitism? What happened to camp members once the camp was disbanded?
I wanted a better understanding of the experience, and felt like this book gave jarring quick snippets, in a jumping around sort of order, but I didn't feel like I gained too much new understanding. It was tough to place the partisan movement in the forests alongside the larger events at the time, even brief mentions giving context would have helped immensely, but this wasn't done.
Overall, I went in with very high expectations and hopes, and did not feel like this book delivered. It was at times fascinating (about 20% of the time) and the rest of the time very repetitive repeating things about food, distribution, and weapon scarcity over and over and over.
Please note, I am no stranger to denser historical books, so merely being more academic is not what made me think it was merely Ok.
This book was super long in audio form, but was AMAZING! I liked how most of the characters' stories joined together early on, so rather then being 3 separate storylines jumping back and forth it became one large story.
Kaladin remains my favorite character, with Dalinar a close second; however, Shallan, who I was not super impressed with in book one became much more interesting in this book.
This book has a really nice blend of action, plot, and character development. I really enjoyed getting some perspective on the Parshendi and their leader.
Overall a great second part to the story, even if it did take me over a month of audio listening to finish it!
Kaladin remains my favorite character, with Dalinar a close second; however, Shallan, who I was not super impressed with in book one became much more interesting in this book.
This book has a really nice blend of action, plot, and character development. I really enjoyed getting some perspective on the Parshendi and their leader.
Overall a great second part to the story, even if it did take me over a month of audio listening to finish it!
This is one of those rare instances where I think the movie was much better then the book that inspired it. I recently saw Logan, and loved it, and then wanted to read the comic that had inspired the movie.
While I could see where the inspiration came from, the comic was drastically different. Old Man Logan's world is even bleaker then that of Logan. Unlike Logan, Old Man Logan is not really dying, which I was disappointed by, as I found the spectacle of the unkillable hero's slow death fascinating.
Old Man Logan starts off with Wolverine a pacifist, who refuses to draw his claws, and does so for about 75% of the book. While this was interesting, it sort of took away from a lot of what makes Wolverine compelling, there was now early killing spree followed by guilt, no discussion of the morality of killing, no scenes of sheer exhaustion as yet another punk forces the Wolverine to show its claws. These were scenes I thought the movie Logan did extremely well, capturing the essence of Wolverine, but the graphic novel didn't do this.
I also found a few things sort of weird and confusing, without giving spoilers the justification for Wolverine becoming a pacifist seemed unlikely, I don't see him actually accomplishing what was shown, maybe 1-2 of the killings, but not the amount shown, he would be restrained or taken down first. I mean if it was that easy it would have been done before.
I also found it confusing what exactly was going on with Bruce Banner, he seemed just dumb...
There are some great action sequences, and I think the overall idea of super villains teaming up to beat the heroes is interesting. The grim post apocalyptic landscape of the world was also interesting, but the story in general just fell flat.
It summed up without too manyt spoilers:
Wolverine is broke, so joins blind old Hawkeye on a road trip to deliver stuff. A few things pop up (but not much) and then another thing happens making Wolverine mad, the end.
Was disappointed by this, which makes me sad :(....
While I could see where the inspiration came from, the comic was drastically different. Old Man Logan's world is even bleaker then that of Logan. Unlike Logan, Old Man Logan is not really dying, which I was disappointed by, as I found the spectacle of the unkillable hero's slow death fascinating.
Old Man Logan starts off with Wolverine a pacifist, who refuses to draw his claws, and does so for about 75% of the book. While this was interesting, it sort of took away from a lot of what makes Wolverine compelling, there was now early killing spree followed by guilt, no discussion of the morality of killing, no scenes of sheer exhaustion as yet another punk forces the Wolverine to show its claws. These were scenes I thought the movie Logan did extremely well, capturing the essence of Wolverine, but the graphic novel didn't do this.
I also found a few things sort of weird and confusing, without giving spoilers the justification for Wolverine becoming a pacifist seemed unlikely, I don't see him actually accomplishing what was shown, maybe 1-2 of the killings, but not the amount shown, he would be restrained or taken down first. I mean if it was that easy it would have been done before.
I also found it confusing what exactly was going on with Bruce Banner, he seemed just dumb...
There are some great action sequences, and I think the overall idea of super villains teaming up to beat the heroes is interesting. The grim post apocalyptic landscape of the world was also interesting, but the story in general just fell flat.
It summed up without too manyt spoilers:
Wolverine is broke, so joins blind old Hawkeye on a road trip to deliver stuff. A few things pop up (but not much) and then another thing happens making Wolverine mad, the end.
Was disappointed by this, which makes me sad :(....