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Recent comics reading
Jun. 27th, 2015 22:11What I've Read
Arakawa Hiromu, Silver Spoon vols. 10 & 11 (2014) - These two volumes cover the end of Hachiken & company's first year at Ezono, which is the equivalent of their sophomore year of high school in the States. They were both really good, of course, and Hachiken's Russian sister-in-law is amazing. More please!
Yoshinaga Fumi, Ôoku vol. 10 (2013) - I said on Twitter that this manga has gone from being a manga about gender and power to being about power and immunology, which is true, but things seem like they're going to go back to gender and power in 11 and then bring the immunology back in 12. Volumes of this manga tend to end really up or really down, and this one's a downer, as the death of Tokugawa Ieharu brings about the downfall of Tanuma Okitsugu and her faction with the ôoku, to say nothing of their efforts to make immunization from the red-face pox a reality. But their enemies have proven in the course of this volume that they'll stop at nothing to secure the shogunate, and it's probably germane to remember that historians who care about this sort of thing (hint: not most people currently practicing on the American side) generally agree that Tanuma was the shogunate's last real chance to reform to meet the demands of the C19.
Jem and the Holograms #1 & 2 (2015) - I never saw the cartoon when I was a kid, and i was probably missing out, but the comic is great so far. I love the art and the coloring, and the story, which follows Jem and the Holograms as they get their start in 2015, is witty too.
What I'm Reading
ODY-C vol. 1 - This comic is fucking trippy, and I like it a lot so far. It retells the Odyssey, in space, with a total genderswap, and the combination of the psychidelic art with the pseudo-epic speech style of the narration is whacked out. But like I said, I like it a lot so far. Fraction is pretty darn awesome.
What I'll Read Next
I got the Charles Soule run of She-Hulk in single issues when they were on sale on Comixology, and I inherited two volumes of Magneto, and of course, tons of manga.
Arakawa Hiromu, Silver Spoon vols. 10 & 11 (2014) - These two volumes cover the end of Hachiken & company's first year at Ezono, which is the equivalent of their sophomore year of high school in the States. They were both really good, of course, and Hachiken's Russian sister-in-law is amazing. More please!
Yoshinaga Fumi, Ôoku vol. 10 (2013) - I said on Twitter that this manga has gone from being a manga about gender and power to being about power and immunology, which is true, but things seem like they're going to go back to gender and power in 11 and then bring the immunology back in 12. Volumes of this manga tend to end really up or really down, and this one's a downer, as the death of Tokugawa Ieharu brings about the downfall of Tanuma Okitsugu and her faction with the ôoku, to say nothing of their efforts to make immunization from the red-face pox a reality. But their enemies have proven in the course of this volume that they'll stop at nothing to secure the shogunate, and it's probably germane to remember that historians who care about this sort of thing (hint: not most people currently practicing on the American side) generally agree that Tanuma was the shogunate's last real chance to reform to meet the demands of the C19.
Jem and the Holograms #1 & 2 (2015) - I never saw the cartoon when I was a kid, and i was probably missing out, but the comic is great so far. I love the art and the coloring, and the story, which follows Jem and the Holograms as they get their start in 2015, is witty too.
What I'm Reading
ODY-C vol. 1 - This comic is fucking trippy, and I like it a lot so far. It retells the Odyssey, in space, with a total genderswap, and the combination of the psychidelic art with the pseudo-epic speech style of the narration is whacked out. But like I said, I like it a lot so far. Fraction is pretty darn awesome.
What I'll Read Next
I got the Charles Soule run of She-Hulk in single issues when they were on sale on Comixology, and I inherited two volumes of Magneto, and of course, tons of manga.