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spiravirgo's Reviews (849)
Tokyo Ghost is a new IMAGE COMICS series set in a dystopian landscape in the near 2089. Technology has progress so much that humanity became so addicted to it. They are now hard core addicts, watching their shows, surfing the web, using nano enhancements, nobody is normal, everything is mechanical and cold. We dive into the story as our pair of constables, Led Dent and Debbie Decay drive through the Isles of Los Angeles in order to apprehend a dangerous techno criminal.
I REALLY LOVE what RICK REMENDER did with this setting. I could actually imagine this as what will become of us ever since our progression of technology has begun. You can see how everyone is so fix on their tech, how each is secluded into their own personal world, and some treating the world as a game! Such society is truly stoic and dark. I really like how RICK REMENDER use escapism in this story not only to the world but in our lead characters as well.
I love Debbie, she only doing this one last job with her partner and lover Led.
The villain is a bit weak but does a good job to show us how easy technology can be bad for people and what we can accomplish and do with it for bad reasons.
The art team of SEAN MURPHY and MATT HOLLINGSWORTH do a splendid work with the coloring and style, but I do have a bit of a problem when they focus a bit on the other surrounding it makes me confuse what's going on but other then that it's fine.
I'm defiantly hooked for issue number two, hopefully coming soon :3
I love fairy tales, they have such vibrant and colorful stories, sometimes tragic, full of romance, adventure, horror and magic. As I grow up by the Disney films and fairy tales books it was what helped me discovered the magic of reading. That and Harry Potter, hehe. So, I when I came across a Marvel anthology called Spider-Man Fairy-Tales, I had to read it. There's also an Avengers and X-men Fairy tales stories but I will not read them at the moment due to having way TOO much books and comics to read right now. But for now, this will be it.
Basically it's a anthology featuring four stories:
Little Red Riding Hood, Anansi The Spider God, Tsuchigumo the spider spirit,Cinderella
Marvel does a decent job to introduce us to the known and unknown fairy tales and used it to their own stories. I did like Tsuchigumo and Anansi stories a lot, both artistically and story wise while Little Red Riding Hood was kinda... Weak and full of plot holes and Cinderlla was such a waste. I mean, it was quite good! Hack, for a minute I thought this could have been the untold origins of Spider-Knight, the counterpart Peter Parker in Medieval time. (There's tons of spideys in the marvel multiverse if you don't know XDD) Some Manage to keep me interested while others bore me to sleep. The art was good, some were so detailed and used well for the fairy tales theme! :D
I will might check out the other fairy tales series when I get the chance, but hey, it was an interesting take on the fairy tales formula. You should try it out :3