What I have been reading...
Any collection of short stories contains little pearls as well as tales that don't really stick. This book was purchased by my wife who buys almost anything Neil Gaiman writes, yes she is a fan... I should never have shown her my Sandman...
Greenwald's book on how he got in touch with Snowden and revealed the biggest and most shocking InfoSec leak ever, reads almost as Ludlum's Bourne saga. One has to admire Snowden's patience when he reaches out to Greenwald, who is border...
After having seen season 1 and 2 on Netflix, I got back into Japanese comics. So off I went to find the manga in the hope to get more background info on this better than average scifi epos.
As usual, mangas do tend to to use quite some ...
Wow... Alienating and fascinating. With 90% photos this little book offers a mesmerizing view on Chinese manufacturing. It goes beyond our Western understanding and is difficult to grasp. Looking at this unknown territory through the eye...
Pick it up and 5, max 10 minutes later put it down. Done. Reads and feels like a common US comic. Lots of graphics, flashy colours, no story to speak of. Dislodged from the Real Jerommeke. Weird at least, alien at best or vice versa.
WTF? Somebody should have told the writer to stick with one genre. There's some horror, there's some end-of-the-world scifi and doom, there's some Mad Max rip-off, there's some time travelling but nothing seems to go anywhere... and last...
Although the idea was quite tantalising and the extra characters introduced promising, the story line keeps on dabbling on the surface. Very little background is developed and the main characters, though drawn and behaving more maturely,...
Oh dear, it looks like every character is getting his/her own book. I'm still not overly enthousiast with the comic's progress and the huge amount of gratuitous violence and often questionable morality. As a child I loved S&W for its sim...
A daring idea, take some icons of the flemish comic scene and put them in a more adult and contemporary environment. Curious where this is heading.
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