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4,5/5. Awesome and great bookish cartoons. Some of them remind me of all those book related pictures, illustrations, tweet or whatever that we saw everywhere so there's maybe some minus in the originality of it, but to put that into a book, to give it her own style and to do so in such a good way, it deserves to be read! A book and an author/illustrator to discover!
I was expecting something about the cycle of water or something more science based, but it truly just a raindrop doing «casual» thing... Not worth it!!
Very slow on action, but a really interesting story and new character. This have a lot of potential and could be awesome. It will depend how it evolve, but definitely original and intriguing!!
Very very slow and kind of going nowhere. We go round and around for a while with this series something new and original have to happen. Next one will be #50 so hopefully there will be something special about this issue...
God did I try with this series... but I can’t appreciate it and I’m not sure why cause when you look at it, it has everything to make a great book, but the ingredient just don’t blend together. The writing is good, no problem there and the universe is interesting. The problem for me is that there’s way too many characters that we introduce then don’t speak of for 40 pages, and then bring back and it’s hard to keep track of all those third hand characters. The mix between reality (New-York) and the fantasy world/aspect of it was not a big win for me. I can read contemporary, I can read fantasy, but mixing them together didn’t please me that much. It also was way too big, not that I have problem with big book, but just seem unedited and that some part of it may have been cut because they were kind of unnecessary. In the end, it just feels a bit too ambitious with all that big story, plot and universe and didn’t achieve to fully deliver it. Maybe I’m the problem because it seems to have a really big hype around this series, but unfortunately I didn’t like it.
2,5/5. A humorous comic book about trying to get fit. It begin with the usual joke about fitness, injury, food, motivation and so on. After that we cover a variety of subject/activity but all related to laziness in a way or another (not achieving thing and too much eating). Not bad, the jokes are alright, the illustrations are okay and everything is fine. Just a big lack of originality that hurts it.
3,5/5. Different! Maybe not as good as the author would have like it but the fables was interesting and there were a lot of action. Is the storyline evolve a lot, no, was it one of the best Batman, no, but it wasn't as bad as the rating shows right now.
True crime book are always hard for me to review. This one isn't different. There most of the them, a «personal» investigation put on paper, very factual, straight to the point, describing crime scene and patterns. What make a good one vs a bad one are the quality of the source, the numbers of elements and also the way it's recall we don't want them to become uselessly gore or go in details that are not important and just sensationalist. This one does it well, all is balance, and that why I think it's a good one if you like that kind of book!
Very good, beautiful and even a bit emotional. It shows how a family is kind of a super-hero team, supporting, helping, encouraging each others in different situation. Really put in the idea of a loving/supporting family which is a very good thing and a thing we lost sight too often in our modern world. Really loved it!!
X-Men: Black - Mystique #1
Zac Thompson, Marco Failla, Seanan McGuire, Lonnie Nadler, J. Scott Campbell
Introducing Mystique to the X-Men Dark series, this comic book does a good book showing who she is and how she things, but unfortunately, a very pale and not so interesting story to support it. Let's hope it gets better in the next one!