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A book for the nostalgic of those Saturday morning of TV cartoons. It cover TV shows from the 60s to the 90s so it could be interesting for a wide public and even if you’re born later, some of those olds shows might have been a part of your childhood as well. I was born in 1987 and I know and have listened to a lot of those 60s shows. It has some info on every show, and some small facts (networks, numbers of episodes, etc.). Nothing extraordinary but like I said the nostalgic may love it, and it’s always nice to find a shows that you forget about and then all of a sudden remember it and have so good memories flow in. I was a bit disappointed to see that many of my favorite shows weren’t there, but it can’t have all of them so it’s okay and it has a nice enough variety.
2,5/5. I’ve been a fan of this author for many years, but I’ve always read is book translated in French, it was my first time reading it in English and I was a bit disappointed. I don’t think that my English comprehension is the cause because I often read in this language, probably even more then in French this year, many it’s the book itself, I don’t know. The fact is this book didn’t please me. I had trouble feeling something for the character and picturing them in my head. The story is slow and... I don’t know something feel odd about it, I may give it another try when it will come out in French, because I should and wanted to love it, but didn’t. One good point, Salvatore always is one of the best writing action/battle scenes. So not a bad one, just never really get into it for unknown reason...
Wonderful illustrations and pages/panels/frames organization. This was original and great. Unfortunately the story didn’t reach me in any way. I won’t have another go with this series...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister
Katherine Catmull, Emma Trevayne, Claire Legrand, Stefan Bachmann
Some of those tales are very dark for middle grade stories/book. I love when authors go for the horror genres written for kids, but some were limit to young reader. Anyway, those stories have all (or mostly) one good thing, the idea behind them is most of the time very good (crazy ideas!!), but the problem was that they were not poorly, but not well either, written (but its middle-grade so part of it is understandable) and (and this is the main problem) rapidly forgettable. You finish one and you say to yourself «That was a good.» and after 30 minutes or so you just don’t remember or care about it. Maybe young reader would have a different perspective over it, but as an adult, these stories were too much alike and too easily forgotten to make this one a great book. It’s still a decent weird/horror anthology for kids, with very short stories which can be read one or two every night and for a while because there are a lot of them in the book. Not a bad book, but it lack the «wow effect» to reach the four stars, but a good three for this one is well deserve.
Little children book about the kiss before bedtimes. It’s basically the story of a bird that goes around and gives a nighttime’s kiss to others animals. The illustrations were not that visually attractive and the story is very repetitive and didn’t really have a message of something to get from it. Too light!
Simple, stupid, but very funny! Lot of cultural reference out here. Parodies of some sort. Very short one page comic book jokes. Work for me. Kind of a absurd humor style here, so if you're not into it better stay away, but if this is the kind of stuff that make you laugh, I work taking a look at it!
Fast forward Batman chasing the bad guys from the last issue. Nothing much happen except the fact that he is getting closer. Not a bad one, just nothing much in it. A bit too slow on story evolution!
Not much evolution in this one, we turn in circle a bit but the ending is promising. Still very good but this series have me put the bar so high that I keep expecting more and more from it. Now there isn't any out left to read, I will have to wait a while until the next one come out! Can't wait!
2,5/5. A girly version of what we call Tom Pouce in French (probably something like Tom Thumb maybe in English... really not sure) but the classic tales of a really small boy. Here we replace the boy by a girl and play a bit with the story more or less reinventing it. This story was too slow for my liking, I think some kids may find it really long because the rhythm is so slow. I'm also unsure why the «remake»... was it necessary? Not bad, but didn't bring anything new/unique.
Read it in English. Visually great and original this graphic novel present a vision of the future were humans live most of their time in an alternate life, simulated reality. So far this is good and it also have great moment, but the problems is, whatever their doing, everything always came back to sex. They can explore and build world, live like Gods, but they have sex for most of the time. I think a little less of it and more deeper reflexion on or presence in the world and alternate reality would have been great and it have some of it, just don't enough. Interesting, original and unique, but it could have been so much more!