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The Bat-Man: First Knight by Dan Jurgens
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
3.25
This was a pretty decent early adventure for Batman, in the style of the original 1939 comic debut, with increased violence, gory, and profanity, as implied by the Black Label designation. I felt the “adult“ aspects weren't really necessary, and the story seemed to struggle to fill all three issues. There were some excellent panels, but overall the art was overly dark and not very appealing.
Night Shift by Stephen King
3.5
Most of the stories in this collection were good. I found an old copy of the audio version with John Glover narrating. He was enthusiastic and talented but had a limited number of voices. Several cautionary tales about signing deals, a couple Salem's Lot stories, several rats, and more. A fun sampling of early King.
Lady Mechanika Volume 4: The Clockwork Assassin by M. M. Chen, Joe Benitez
4.25
A mysterious assassin hunts down previous colleagues of Mr. Lewis. An excellent mystery.
Lady Mechanika: La Dama de la Muerte by Joe Benítez
4.25
This was the first volume of Last Mechanika I collected. I'm a sucker for Dia de los Muertos aesthetics, but regardless, how could you pass up a cover like this?! Set before the events of the main run of comics, Lady M visits a small Mexican village being terrorized by a group of bandits and decides to lend them her services, in part in search of her own redemption.
Lady Mechanika, Vol. 5: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Beth Sotelo, M. M. Chen, Martin Montiel, Joe Benítez
4.5
This may be my favorite volume yet. More hints of Mechanika's past, but interrupted by Mr. Lewis's unexpected nuptials. It'll be interesting to see how their relationship moves forward after her interference.
The Wilderness Stories by Luke Pearson
3.75
Fun, quirky fantasy stories with some deep and unique world building.
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil
2.25
A contemplative and philosophical graphic novel. The story involves a daughter, father, and grandfather. It seems to make some presumption of the reader's awareness of Ray Kurzweil, a futurist. Amy is helping Ray compile records of her grandfather's writing to aid Ray in creating a chatbot of his father. You get to know all three pretty well, but I'm not entirely sure to what end. The story jumps around a bit and could be better focused. There is talk about the role of technology and AI, living beyond our bodies, lots of interviews between father and daughter with no clear purpose, talk about writing this book without ever defining what the book is meant to be. It is interesting and readable and well drawn, I just don't know what story it was trying to tell